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Best of Sanderson so far. I have a lot to say. Need more time to sort out my thoughts. Full review to come till the end of the week. I'll leave you with my faves till then:


I've waited so long to write the review that I don't even feel like describing it. I will say that it was a bloated read, full of repetitive self-loathing, self-condemnation, self- recriminations and other self stuff from the dictionary.
This was a "hopeful wish" read. I saw this huge hardcover book (I ended up listening on audio though) and assumed it had to contain a wonderful story in there. So, I started to read and the beginning grabbed me and I heard some really cool names, read about some ...more
This was a "hopeful wish" read. I saw this huge hardcover book (I ended up listening on audio though) and assumed it had to contain a wonderful story in there. So, I started to read and the beginning grabbed me and I heard some really cool names, read about some ...more

4.5 pretty darn epic start to a series! I really struggled with the rating on this one. For 90% of the book I knew it was going to be a 4.5 but figured I was going to swing it down. Then the last 10% of the book was finger gripping awesome. Almost enough to get that fifth star glowing. Now I'm talking about a book that was around 1200 kindle pages so believe me that the last 10% was actually a good chunk of book. I feel like if it was shorter it probably would have been better. That said I didn'
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Oct 26, 2011
Cindy
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Dec 21, 2011
Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!}
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Jan 27, 2012
Vaughn
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Jun 13, 2012
Keertana
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Apr 22, 2013
Ann ♣*•. •*´`*• Keep calm & READ •*´`*• ¸
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Dec 31, 2013
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Clarifina ~Books Are My Drugs~
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