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leann_bolesch 's review for:
The Lost Metal
by Brandon Sanderson
adventurous
dark
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This should have been a 4.5 star book. The climax was suitably satisfying, with the right level of tension and all of the established characters being well utilized. It should have been a great conclusion to the series.
Now, like, I understand that Sanderson is trying to make his stories into his own MCU. That's his right. He's free to do it. I just think it's a bitch move to make on of the major plots of book 4 of a series consist primarily of characters from elsewhere in his expanded universe. It was annoying enough to worry that he might pull that one me in book 3. Finding out I was just paranoid back then only to be slapped in the face with my concerns in the next book is downright rude.
I'm really so annoyed about this. I started with Mistborn because I heard it was not only one of his earliest works but also held up, and picked the sequel series to the one I read with the expectation that I would be good having read that one series and not that I would need to read mutiple other works of his set in multiple other worlds, which I have no investment in and was not intrigued by with all of the cameo characters. And if he was going to make it obvious in the first book that I was in for a crossover then I'd have been warned, but 75+% of the way through the series? And then the cameo characters are that important to resolving the major threat? Fuck off.
I'm docking this 2.5 stars because that's a shit thing for any extended universe to do to people who are dipping their toes in.
Now, like, I understand that Sanderson is trying to make his stories into his own MCU. That's his right. He's free to do it. I just think it's a bitch move to make on of the major plots of book 4 of a series consist primarily of characters from elsewhere in his expanded universe. It was annoying enough to worry that he might pull that one me in book 3. Finding out I was just paranoid back then only to be slapped in the face with my concerns in the next book is downright rude.
I'm really so annoyed about this. I started with Mistborn because I heard it was not only one of his earliest works but also held up, and picked the sequel series to the one I read with the expectation that I would be good having read that one series and not that I would need to read mutiple other works of his set in multiple other worlds, which I have no investment in and was not intrigued by with all of the cameo characters. And if he was going to make it obvious in the first book that I was in for a crossover then I'd have been warned, but 75+% of the way through the series? And then the cameo characters are that important to resolving the major threat? Fuck off.
I'm docking this 2.5 stars because that's a shit thing for any extended universe to do to people who are dipping their toes in.