2025 Re-review
Sometimes, a fragment of a book stays with you - like a song you can’t get out of your head. That’s what has happened with Sanderson’s first ideal. The ideal itself is pure Sanderson: cliche, optimistic, noble. But the structure works. Plug in some different ideals, and the grammar has worked as a prayer ever since.
- “Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.” *
2020 Review: 21st book of 2020.
Kaladin’s story is the fantasy of a manager, and something of a retelling of Ender’s game without the guilt and genocide (or at least not yet). I didn’t find the 3 of 4 main plots compelling, but there was just enough interesting happening with Shallan that I wanted to do more than read the wikipedia articles for the rest of the series.