You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
kagedbooks 's review for:
Lux
by Brandon Sanderson, Steven Michael Bohls
Video https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR8C3uhh/
First off, i’m super excited to be back in the world of The Reckoners!
Given that I found Sanderson via Wheel of Time, I think him being open to working with other authors on certain projects is awesome. It gives readers the chance to enjoy more of those worlds, gives another author some big exposure, and let him focus more attention of some of his larger projects.
Lux could be considered stand-alone from the Steelheart series but i’d consider it more of a companion book to be read after finishing the first series. A reader who had not read Steelheart may feel more thrown into a world, as while it does go over what Epics are and brief history you are not given the level of lore and understanding from the main series. Plus towards the end there are some minor / pretty oblivious spoilers for the original trilogy.
That being said it does a great job of standing on it’s own and connecting you with a different crew, while still feeling like it’s part of the same world. There are cameos from characters we know from the OG Reckoners series and events play out throughout the same timeline. So it cool to pick up on the parallels between them.
While the timeline crunches the timespan of the original trilogy into a single book, it doesn’t really feel rushed at all. There were several times were I thought I was hitting the climatic actions only to realize I still had quite a bit of story left; I really enjoy this (i’m always glad when there is more story left).
We do get some expansion on the original worldbuilding, but not much. Mostly just more of how motivators can / do work and some of the training traditional Reckoners went through (since we didn’t get a normal process with David).
Speaking of David, I found Jax to be very similar to David’s character which I would normally see as a negative but given their similar past and motivations I thought it actually made sense in this situation.
There were times where some of the writing was clunky or seemed slightly disjointed but i’m giving that up as both authors learning to co-write in and already established world, along with it originally being planned as a trio of novellas that was later combined into a single novel.
And can we talk about that epilogue…. Major implications for the future, i’m hoping this did well enough to continue the series and see where it goes.
First off, i’m super excited to be back in the world of The Reckoners!
Given that I found Sanderson via Wheel of Time, I think him being open to working with other authors on certain projects is awesome. It gives readers the chance to enjoy more of those worlds, gives another author some big exposure, and let him focus more attention of some of his larger projects.
Lux could be considered stand-alone from the Steelheart series but i’d consider it more of a companion book to be read after finishing the first series. A reader who had not read Steelheart may feel more thrown into a world, as while it does go over what Epics are and brief history you are not given the level of lore and understanding from the main series. Plus towards the end there are some minor / pretty oblivious spoilers for the original trilogy.
That being said it does a great job of standing on it’s own and connecting you with a different crew, while still feeling like it’s part of the same world. There are cameos from characters we know from the OG Reckoners series and events play out throughout the same timeline. So it cool to pick up on the parallels between them.
While the timeline crunches the timespan of the original trilogy into a single book, it doesn’t really feel rushed at all. There were several times were I thought I was hitting the climatic actions only to realize I still had quite a bit of story left; I really enjoy this (i’m always glad when there is more story left).
We do get some expansion on the original worldbuilding, but not much. Mostly just more of how motivators can / do work and some of the training traditional Reckoners went through (since we didn’t get a normal process with David).
Speaking of David, I found Jax to be very similar to David’s character which I would normally see as a negative but given their similar past and motivations I thought it actually made sense in this situation.
There were times where some of the writing was clunky or seemed slightly disjointed but i’m giving that up as both authors learning to co-write in and already established world, along with it originally being planned as a trio of novellas that was later combined into a single novel.
And can we talk about that epilogue…. Major implications for the future, i’m hoping this did well enough to continue the series and see where it goes.