I'm going to be so interested in what you think of The Codex Alera series. I've read the Dresden Files and really enjoyed them and am looking forward to getting to more of Butcher's work.

Hurray for the power of stew!

It’s so refreshing to hear someone being able to criticize the book without hating on it 😌

Yeahhhhhh I’m sold I’ll

Honestly, I now want to read the Naomi Novik books. Cause I’m probably never gonna read the fourth wing so this might be a good substitute.

I just recently finished this book, it was much funnier than I anticipated and I thoroughly enjoyed it 😊

thanks! i'm Aroace, and i just don't like romance :D

Audio book “reader” finished it in two days. I still have not been able to a decision on if I like the book or not. I think my love for the series is clouding my ability to be rational. I can’t tell if I’m just angry at the lack of information or disappointed in what actually there. This book is somehow to long and to short. It’s entirely too long for what’s actually in the book and not long enough for what should have been in the book.

Not a Sanderson reader, but I just wanted to say i love your setup and video quality, cadence and vibe, and hope you get to grow a bigger audience

"Buying books and reading books are two separate hobbies" I feel attacked. 😅

Thank you so much for speaking about Fitz with so much empathy! I’ve heard so many other reviewers criticize and complain about him and all the poor choices he makes throughout his life without any understanding of the trauma that he has experienced in his life. He experiences so much early childhood trauma and goes on to be traumatized repeatedly by events and even by the people who care about him. In modern terms he suffers from CPTSD. All his choices stem from fear, attachment issues,loneliness, and feeling unloved. I totally understood his choices that he makes when I read the books. They seem natural to me considering it all and I was so shocked to hear people being so judgmental about him. These are such wonderful and beautifully written books and they should be much more well know. Again thank you! I’ll be watching more of you videos

I try to give at least 100 pages, and normally write DNF in my review

A monster calls , one dark window, name of the wind

And I was going to say How to Train your dragon

Ive read almost every Sanderson book and i just dont understand how you can amass million of fans and then just alienate the base for a very small minority. Heck i spent 1k on his kick starter. We are the fans that he alienated.

Clunky prose. Meandering plot. Way too long. Should have been 500 pages instead of 1300 pages.

Another one of your great, fun, shorts. Not only did it put a smile on my face, but it reminded me that I haven't seen a short from you in some time. I went to your page and checked, and - voila - you had an earlier one (self-published fantasy novels) that I'd never seen. A double bonus.

Honestly screw representation.

I could not even finish it and I've read all his books. Ultimately I'm no longer a fan and never will rest another of his books again. Everything I could forgive but I can't forgive the woke stuff.

Nailed it, looking forward to watching your spoiler review

I haven't read it yet, but it's weird how I read so many positive reviews from others, many saying it was their favorite book in the series, and yet others completely hated it. I guess it just goes to show you how subjective fictional books are.

The problem with the vast majority of scenes with Dalinar and Navani in this one is that they're basically just a camera lens giving us glimpses into scenes we don't have nearly enough context to care about. The chapters amount to giant lore dumps, and it stops being interesting because nothing happening has anything to do with our POV characters. As soon as Odium started messing with them, like Navani being back with Gavilar, it was engaging to read these great characters again! I am convinced the reason Adolin has been the by-far favorite in this entry is because his story was the most-grounded and least lore-dumpy of all the major plot threads

It really bothers me how much of the discourse is just annoyed mormon fans whining about the gay relationship as if that's even remotely and issue, much less one of the biggest issues with this book. The only issue with that relationship is that Rennarin and R'lain were such nothing characters who got near-zero page time in the last 4 books. I genuinely wonder if the secret projects/covid were really detrimental on this book's development. Writing 4 other books while writing ostensibly your magnum opus can't have helped, I don't care who you are as an author. And the biggest red flag for me is that he did focus groups and had THREE different endings that no one liked, but rather than just pick one and develop it further, he just combined all three into a mismatched mess.

A novella from Honor's perspective would have been better than including it here.

Great breakdown.

It was my least favorite stormlight book. I like where everything ended up, but the journey was painful at times. Read Sunlitman after.

Call a spade a spade, he sold out, his entire legacy and fan base now suffer for it

Sanderson has always been pretty weak with prose. It’s very generic stuff and just how weak his writing was must have been masked by his editor Moshe. Now Moshe is gone it’s clear how mediocre a writer he is. He was good at storytelling early on and somehow got everyone to worship him and never criticize him.

I think you are being kind, for me this book was overall unsatisfying.

The ending moved me quite a lot.

My oldest son is named Kaladin, I’m happy that he (the character) stayed a good person who helps others. I am struggling with being interested in Brandon’s future projects, a thing I never thought I would feel

Your laugh reminds me of Guy sensei

If there was a shard of Disappointment, I would be the perfect vessel for it after reading WaT

i really didnt like this book. didnt feel like fantasy. felt it was written for a young audience. "modern audience" maybe lol. definitely not for me. shame cause I am a huge Sanderson fan. felt like someone else wrote this book. not the same person who gave us Way of Kings, Mistborn Era1, Warbreaker... etc.

This book was a huge disappointment

I didn't liked the book but like your laugh cuts in video ))

I just watch your videos to see you giggle every 30 seconds...then the edit...30 seconds more giggling.. edit.. giggle.... it's fun..😊

I cannot wait to see your full spoiler review ❤

This book sucks

Yeah. That all sounded about right! 😎👍

I don't think they resolved their trauma.....I think they had breakthroughs. Those can happen in an instant, of the scenario is right for it....

I just couldn’t complete the book - the writing is just the problem. Prose is average, humour poor, and dialogue dire. I also find the world too complex and uninspiring and spren have come to irritate me enormously.

IMO If you’re considering starting The Stormlight Archive, don’t. I’m on “day four” of book five W&T. That’s day idk in reality and I’m not going to finish it. At least go watch a couple critical reviews before you invest the time this series takes.

I am about halfway through and.. idk I’m really not enjoying this one very much. I didn’t like the last one and this one has been even more frustrating for me. I think I’ll get through it but I might just try to listen to the rest.

thank you, i read the books as a kid but i want to read the new one

I'm part of the group of people that still has to start the stormlight archive, but would watch anything you publish anyway eheheh

Well, this book certainly "checked all the boxes."

I have been waiting for this for days! I finished the book last week and couldn’t wait to hear your thoughts. And now I can’t wait for your spoiler review.