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ladydewinter 's review for:
Der Weg der Könige
by Brandon Sanderson
WOW.
I've been hearing great things about Brandon Sanderson for ages, but I was pretty much blown away (ha!) by what awaited me in the Stormlight Archives.
It's not a book for people who need a novel to hook them instantly with the plot, but if you have the patience to discover the world and its characters, you're rewarded with some of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen. It's a great example of showing rather than telling - one thing I hate about fantasy or sci-fi novels is when you have to log through page after page of “how this world works“. Here, the world is explained and described so slowly I was sometimes startled to see how much I already knew. It can be a bit confusing at first, but it reminded me a bit of the first hours of playing an RPG, where you're runnung around learning how everything works.
The plot takes a while to get going, but while there is one and I assume the threads will be pulled together as the books progress, I also loved how it was more about having things happen in this world rather than just having things happen. Actually, to use another video game analogy, it felt like an open world game where it takes a bit to start the main quest.
Unlike certain video games, however, I am very eager to see how the main quest goes, so I can't wait to read volume two.
I was really surprised by how much I loved this, and it made me fall in love with fantasy all over again, because WOW.
I've been hearing great things about Brandon Sanderson for ages, but I was pretty much blown away (ha!) by what awaited me in the Stormlight Archives.
It's not a book for people who need a novel to hook them instantly with the plot, but if you have the patience to discover the world and its characters, you're rewarded with some of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen. It's a great example of showing rather than telling - one thing I hate about fantasy or sci-fi novels is when you have to log through page after page of “how this world works“. Here, the world is explained and described so slowly I was sometimes startled to see how much I already knew. It can be a bit confusing at first, but it reminded me a bit of the first hours of playing an RPG, where you're runnung around learning how everything works.
The plot takes a while to get going, but while there is one and I assume the threads will be pulled together as the books progress, I also loved how it was more about having things happen in this world rather than just having things happen. Actually, to use another video game analogy, it felt like an open world game where it takes a bit to start the main quest.
Unlike certain video games, however, I am very eager to see how the main quest goes, so I can't wait to read volume two.
I was really surprised by how much I loved this, and it made me fall in love with fantasy all over again, because WOW.