Currently making my way through Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Honestly, 90% of what I've read over the last year has been from Sanderson. I started with Way of Kings and am now about half-way through his published works. He has become my favorite author ever. It made me kind of sad to read a few things in this thread about him treating writing like a 9-5 job or that he's the Marvel Pictures of fantasy novels, because I feel it belittles the fantastic, detailed work that's gone into what he's published. I feel like he creates more interesting worlds, magic systems, and characters than almost anyone in the fantasy business.
I was trying to read through a book a few months back called Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan. It was, for all intents and purposes, a good book, but I just couldn't get into it. I read about 30%, and I wasn't connecting to the characters, the world felt somewhat uninteresting and political, and the tone never shifted, with little to no breaks into humor or lightheartedness. Now, I'm reading Mistborn, which honestly feels kind of similar to that book, but I am captivated. I love these characters. He made the world just interesting enough to be mysterious and fun to learn about. There's humor when there needs to be some injected, but it's still a serious story with overarching things happening.
People talk about his prose. I love his prose. Prose doesn't have to always be poetic. You don't have to sludge through a book to find it well-written. His is simple, but not dumbed-down, concise, and written in such a way that when the action is moving, you're flying through what's going on, but when things slow down, so too does your reading. I like various types of prose, and I appreciate those who can write in really poetic, thought-provoking ways, but I fail to see how Sanderson's style is any less "worthy" of being highly-regarded.
Anyway, back to the book!
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