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A review by isabellarobinson7
Oathbringer Part One by Brandon Sanderson
5.0
Rating: 5 stars
Oathbringer starts out slower than the other Stormlight Archive books I feel, so the first third took me a lot longer than the rest of the book, as I read the last 363 pages in just a couple of days. But once it got going, it was amazing! I went straight onto Part Two.
Somehow, Brandon Sanderson makes this giant cast of characters (like really giant. There are 44 POV characters alone) seem so distinguishable from each other. And not through the typical "characture" way other authors sometimes do (like, "here's the pretty one, here's the mean one" etc. etc.) Skar and Teft are both pretty serious people, but both have realistic personalities and individual traits that sets them apart from each other that I can immediately tell you that Teft is a former spearman and Skar was a workman. And the same can be said for the other more optimistic characters, like Lopen and Rock (or Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor) are very distinctive as well.
This review of Part One of Oathbringer is quite disjointed, but my thoughts are still circling my head, as the book doesn't feel complete, being in the middle of part two.
Oathbringer starts out slower than the other Stormlight Archive books I feel, so the first third took me a lot longer than the rest of the book, as I read the last 363 pages in just a couple of days. But once it got going, it was amazing! I went straight onto Part Two.
Somehow, Brandon Sanderson makes this giant cast of characters (like really giant. There are 44 POV characters alone) seem so distinguishable from each other. And not through the typical "characture" way other authors sometimes do (like, "here's the pretty one, here's the mean one" etc. etc.) Skar and Teft are both pretty serious people, but both have realistic personalities and individual traits that sets them apart from each other that I can immediately tell you that Teft is a former spearman and Skar was a workman. And the same can be said for the other more optimistic characters, like Lopen and Rock (or Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor) are very distinctive as well.
This review of Part One of Oathbringer is quite disjointed, but my thoughts are still circling my head, as the book doesn't feel complete, being in the middle of part two.