Wow.I have to respectfully disagree with you about TWOK. The 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and 'Malazan Empire' series are so much better. I'm too far in to let myself quit, but for now I cannot place it in the Top 10 'Epic Fantasy' list. The book is over 1200 pages and it moves so slowly that it should have been truncated to 600 pages. I'm not impressed with 'The Way of Kings' and seeing how this is the first Brandon Sanderson novel I've read, I was expecting a lot more. The Shardplate, Shardblades - very interesting and the opening battle in the book was awesome. Wow! Weird and reminiscent of Pirates of the Caribbean and the crew of Davy Jones. Wow! Something cool! Kaladin finally discovered that the Parshendi are crustaceans themselves. when are decisive battles going to appear? Finally, something new appeared with Dallinar noticing that a Parshendi general was wearing Shardplate. The war with the Parshendi is tiresome and filled with the dilemma of bridges, bridge runners, crustaceans pulling bridge siege engines, falling into chasms, etc. but it's infrequent and disappointing because it could add so much to the book/series.ĥ. The book started off with some history and you get pieces here and there of the Voidbringers, Radiants, etc. There isn't enough history given of the fantasy world. Stormfather! Highstorms! Stormlight! Storms! Okay, I acknowledge that the series is 'The Stormlight Archive', but can't it be toned down.Ĥ.

The text 'Storms' is used too frequently. I think I've seen some 'spren around me emoting 'BORED'!ģ. I'm tired of all the 'spren which seem to emote with anything that happens (flesh rot, working hard, creativity, fear, anger, etc.). I don't know, maybe I'm crazy by not thinking that glyphs could cover all of this.Ģ. Now, tell me how this works for a general during a battle? True, they use glyphs all the time, but still.reading maps without written text, troop formations, troop numbers, names of battle sites, etc.

It is beneath men to read, they are read to by women. This fantasy world is crazy and some things are really annoying. The plot moves at a snail's pace, similar to The Wheel of Time (IMHO) which is why I gave up on that series after the fifth or sixth book. The story is slow, for 200 pages it seems that Dallinar is having visions going nowhere, arguing with his son, confused and thinking too much.while Kaladin is breaking his neck trying to improve the bridgemen.

Alright, I'm about 500 pages into this book and frankly I don't see the hype throwing it into a number of best 'Epic Fantasy' Top 10 lists.

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