(April 2014) Fantasy
Now, you may have noticed that I am a big Brandon Sanderson fan (this blog might as well be called Ben’s Brandon Sanderson Appreciation Page).
I read The Way of Kings almost three years ago and loved it. It was a very impressive first novel of a planned 10-book series, but I only found out about the rest of the series after I finished it, otherwise I might not have started (had bad experiences with Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones)…
Well, book two came out this month. Words of Radiance takes the world and characters introduced in the first book and builds on them. The story really progresses, and by the end of the book Sanderson has dialed the intensity up to 11.
I really enjoyed the book, but I find it hard to see how he is going to keep this up for another eight books. Also, he is spreading himself so thin with other projects (the Steelheart project, the Rithmatist project, etc.) that I can see this taking another twenty years to finish.
I wish I could just give up on this series. I can tell it’s going to frustrate me immensely. The thing is, it’s also really good. Sigh.
Overall score 9/10
I need a Brandon Sanderson version of this song:
