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books_are_nice_and_enjoyable's Reviews (257)
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is amazing. Sanderson just keeps adding features to the world he's built, keeps developing characters both new and old. If you liked the other books in the Stormlight Archive series you really, really want to read this one as well - in my opinion it's the best book in the series so far, which is saying something.
An enjoyable read. You'll want to read this one if you're planning on reading the rest of the Stormlight Archive series.
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An excellent little book, my main criticism would be that it's too short.
A somewhat disappointing read. Coverage of specific ways to set infrastructure up in my opinion skips some of the primary problems that you'll be spending most of your time on, and there's not much in here that's not already included in the official technical service documentation.
The book also sometimes felt like reading an advertisement, not an instruction.
The book also sometimes felt like reading an advertisement, not an instruction.
Sanderson explains in the postscript that Lift is one of his favorite characters from the Stormlight Archive. She's one of my favorite characters as well.
I was a little disappointed that the first chapter was a repeat of the sequence also included in Words of Radiance (I had hoped for more new stuff!), but not including that sequence - one of my favorite parts of that book - in a book devoted to covering only the activities of Lift would have made no sense either, so it was obviously the right decision on Sanderson's part to repeat that part here.
The character really does not fit into this environment that was created at all, but somehow you feel like perhaps she does anyway. Sanderson not only makes it work, he makes it work very well. The book was highly enjoyable to read.
I was a little disappointed that the first chapter was a repeat of the sequence also included in Words of Radiance (I had hoped for more new stuff!), but not including that sequence - one of my favorite parts of that book - in a book devoted to covering only the activities of Lift would have made no sense either, so it was obviously the right decision on Sanderson's part to repeat that part here.
The character really does not fit into this environment that was created at all, but somehow you feel like perhaps she does anyway. Sanderson not only makes it work, he makes it work very well. The book was highly enjoyable to read.