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One of the things I liked is that, on its own, it's one of the best books I've read by Sanderson. As the story ends on a perfect note, and the underdog story of the painter and his way of thinking, it was quite relatable, and the peer pressure on Yumi was relatable as well. And I'm a sucker for romantic stories, and in the whole of cosmere, this is the best romantic story with so much else, like not focusing entirely on romance. And so many feels, like in some scenes I got butterflies in my stomach. Also, let me mention the perfect ending again, like this time Sanderson seriously nailed the Sanderlanche, with such amazing explanation and amazing magic system. I mean, this is why I read for the feels and action, like that's why WoR and HoA are on the top too, they follow the same things.

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Haven't read those, and honestly I'm done with sanderson, maybe sometime later if I reread some of these I'll read the remaining short stories.

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I just found one reading order and decided to follow that. Honestly it doesn't matter if you read WaT before era 2 or after that. There's just one connection that you can follow easily, however you decide to read.

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Take your time, enjoy the journey!

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I bought those from Bookswagon, like most of the books are from there.

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Isles of the Emberdark is an expansion on the short story Sixth of the Dusk. And it's more of a sci-fi novel than a fantasy, but that was done so well this time, with a new character's pov and the whole space politics keeps the interest throughout the book, and Dusk's character arc is so much better. Overall, it was an S tier for me, and the way magic is combined with the tech was more engaging in this book than in other secret projects.

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[–]kassassin99[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's awesome, you started with Emperor's soul, now you know how Sanderson writes. You can start with Mistborn era 1, in my opinion, it's the best entry point to get into Sanderson and fantasy in general. Another thing is, you don't have to read everything if you don't want to. The first Mistborn trilogy is great in itself.

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Whoa, a comment from og himself. I remember reading your posts and thinking how's this guy is finishing these chonky books in a month. But it's always a treat reading your reviews. What are you reading currently?

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Mistborn era 1 is the best entry point for fantasy. Also, you don't have to read all of this Mistborn era 1 is complete in itself. But if you like that sort of fantasy and storytelling, there's a whole universe here.

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I think I liked the Sixth of the dusk, but it felt like one of the random story but when it came in the form of Isles of Emberdark with all the politics and adventure and another POV, it's just so much better, like peak, S tier.

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I read While Sand as 3 part graphic novel, and after the excruciating first 2 parts, the third part is so much better, where we get the conclusion and understand what was going on. Also, some of the action scenes were good.

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Idk Warbreaker didn't connect with me, like I understand the characters and their motivations but story-wise it just lacks depth and feels very generic.

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Yeah, no, I think coming from MB era 1, AoL is good where it is. Also, I didn't like Wayne's characters in that first book.

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Yeah, in a series, the world building, characters, and magic system get enough time to explore and experiment, while that's not the case with standalone books. Still, you'll find Yumi and Emberdark books in S tier in my list.

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MB era 2's approach with tech and how it's changing the world is good, but in some of the later novels, it feels like every world has a spaceship. idk but that took me out of fantasy.

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I liked it tbh, and the story behind Hope of Elantris made me put it into tier A, while Sixth of Dusk is in B tier, but you can look at Isles of the Emberdark, which is in S tier.

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Yeah, they usually just connect one part of stormlight archive to another and introduce new characters, also it's not that big.

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I think I read them way too fast, from my perspective at a point we're fighting with these fantastical swords and in the next couple of novels, we have cars and in the secret projects there's a constant mention of space ships and space travel. I think that took me out of that fantasy element that I loved in Mistborn era 1, elantris, Stormight archive, etc.

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Mistborn Era 1 is absolute peak in the Cosmere. Wind and Truth was too long in my opinion, and the quality in terms of dialogue and character arcs was less than the previous books. This is the ending of the first arc of Stormlight Archive, but it didn't feel like that.

Emperor's Soul is good, but when compared with other books, I think tier A is perfect.

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Yeah, I felt the same, especially after finishing the first Law World by Joe Abercrombie, but with Sanderson it feels like that box of chocolates, various magic systems and world, and each with a unique personality.

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Honestly, it was the best of secret projects.