Category: Cosmere
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Isles of the Emberdark review
Isles of the Emberdark is Brandon Sanderson’s latest Cosmere release and the fifth of his “secret project” novels produced during the pandemic and independently published via Kickstarter. Set in the Cosmere’s far future space age, where worlds are becoming more connected, it follows Dusk, who was a Trapper (a kind of ranger/custodian) of the deadly…
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Wind and Truth review
This review is spoiler-free for Wind and Truth but may contain mild, implicit spoilers for previous Stormlight books. Brandon Sanderson has a particular way of writing finales. They are big and bombastic and bring foreshadowing from the whole story to bear while plot threads cascade into one another, resolving in sequence. The POV begins to…
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White Sand omnibus review
White Sand was the last piece of Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere I tracked down when I first got up to date and I almost immediately reached the conclusion that it is the universe’s worst story, and that it wasn’t close. It was a slog to get through, and until my reread I could not have told…
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Rhythm of War review
This text was originally posted to Reddit shortly after the book’s release in 2020, and contains full book spoilers for Rhythm of War and all preceding volumes of The Stormlight Archive. The good: The whole central plot thread of Urithiru being occupied was fantastic and great fun throughout. Kaladin as a character benefited enormously from…
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Tress of the Emerald Sea review
Find a video version of this review on YouTube here. Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first of Brandon Sanderson’s four secret project novels and the latest release in his Cosmere fantasy universe. It follows a young woman who pursues the man she loves out to sea to rescue him from the clutches of…
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