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The Sunlit Man
by Brandon Sanderson
What started out as a book I wasn't vibing on too hard, ended up turning into a wonderful adventure in an extremely strange world.
I don't know what it is about the Threnodites, but holy moly do they pick the most awful worlds. But don't you worry, Nomad is here and he is (probably) going to help. Our hero lands on this incredibly strange land where the people are constantly trying to outrun The Sun Tyrant, and keep away from The Cinder King. Because of this the world and it's people are constantly involved in drama and pressure and high stakes of lives being on the line. I think if you threw any of these people on Earth they would excel beyond belief because relative to what they deal with daily we look like a bunch of babies, I'm sure.
Anyway. This book was a nice mountain climb. It was hard for me to get going. I was annoyed because it looked like we were going to have another quippy pseudo funny main character, but that, thankfully, dissipated quickly. Once this story got going though I became fully invested. I crested that mountain top and everything was beautiful and the downhill climb the rest of the way was pretty amazing.
I'm hesitant to talk too much about the story as there would be some massive story spoilers that I feel aren't appropriate for a fellow Cosmere fan to read ahead of time. But there are multiple different Cosmere worlds that interact with each other. There is a revelation about....someone 3/4 of the way through. There's a satisfying ending. And it's all really well done. I don't want to say any more.
As we conclude The Year of Sanderson I must say that I enjoyed all the books quite a bit. But while I enjoyed them, I am quite sad that we will most likely never see any other stories in these worlds. I love every one of the Cosmere worlds on display just as much as every world introduced so far.
All I can say to wrap up this review of Sunlit is that while Stormlight has never been my favorite Sanderson world, I've never been more excited for an Archive book. Bring on Stormlight 5 now, please. I'm ready.
I don't know what it is about the Threnodites, but holy moly do they pick the most awful worlds. But don't you worry, Nomad is here and he is (probably) going to help. Our hero lands on this incredibly strange land where the people are constantly trying to outrun The Sun Tyrant, and keep away from The Cinder King. Because of this the world and it's people are constantly involved in drama and pressure and high stakes of lives being on the line. I think if you threw any of these people on Earth they would excel beyond belief because relative to what they deal with daily we look like a bunch of babies, I'm sure.
Anyway. This book was a nice mountain climb. It was hard for me to get going. I was annoyed because it looked like we were going to have another quippy pseudo funny main character, but that, thankfully, dissipated quickly. Once this story got going though I became fully invested. I crested that mountain top and everything was beautiful and the downhill climb the rest of the way was pretty amazing.
I'm hesitant to talk too much about the story as there would be some massive story spoilers that I feel aren't appropriate for a fellow Cosmere fan to read ahead of time. But there are multiple different Cosmere worlds that interact with each other. There is a revelation about....someone 3/4 of the way through. There's a satisfying ending. And it's all really well done. I don't want to say any more.
As we conclude The Year of Sanderson I must say that I enjoyed all the books quite a bit. But while I enjoyed them, I am quite sad that we will most likely never see any other stories in these worlds. I love every one of the Cosmere worlds on display just as much as every world introduced so far.
All I can say to wrap up this review of Sunlit is that while Stormlight has never been my favorite Sanderson world, I've never been more excited for an Archive book. Bring on Stormlight 5 now, please. I'm ready.