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Secret History

Brandon Sanderson

4.23 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Confusing and overwhelming but incredibly different an insightful on the cosmere as a whole, a must read!
adventurous informative mysterious fast-paced
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

It is impossible to talk about this without spoiling the original trilogy, which you should read. But, like Kelsier, I will aim to do the impossible. You think it is one thing going in, due to the cleverly written blurb on the back, then get something completely different, but far more fascinating. The curtain is pealed away on certain events during the main series and light is shed on the deeper battle taking place behind the scenes in the greater Cosmere with a lovable lead who is just as confused as us. Luckily, he catches on quick and we get some cool character moments of our hero shaping events from [spoilers]. Read it after the original trilogy and before you jump into the rest of the Cosmere and prepare to have your mind blown! If you haven't read the original trilogy or have forgotten a lot of it, reread it because this will feel very disjointed without that knowledge. This is after all, a supplemental secret history...

It's basically a condensed alternate POV book. pretty much all of the important information could be inferred from the other books. I was flat out bored most of this book.

Seriously WTF I did not see anyyyyyy of this coming ngl