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This reads so much like a Harry Potter novel. What have you done, Sanderson!

I guess all stories set in a magic school have unavoidable similarities. But some were too similar to moments, characters, scenes in Harry Potter.

I would be buried six feet deep in one second if I were to accuse Brandon Sanderson of copying ideas.

BRANDON SANDERSON COPIES IDEAS AND STORIES..... from his brain to the paper.

Chalk drawings coming to life is a fantastic idea for a fantasy novel. But I'm finding it hard not to roll my eyes at chalkling descriptions at start of each chapter or rithmatists battling. Just picturing grown-ups drawing figures on the floor and making these figures fight makes me want to roll my eyes... But I don't. Because I feel I can still get the thrill out of the story, common, it is Brandon Sanderson.

Now we are getting somewhere. To Fantastica!

Most names in the book and the sub-plots are very children's book style - won't say childish. Interesting all the same.

I've been reading The Neverending Story like it was a never ending story from 3 months.

"A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize."

"There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence."

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance"

I don't know. People might think I'm mad for reading this book 3-4 times every year. But I love it that much. The kick I get out of the mystery, suspense and thriller aspects of this story never get old for me.

I thought I'd have something meaningful to say while I read this tome again. Nope! Still speechless. Leading up to the major plot, all the chapters can be clubbed together to form little short stories and this story structure is such a pleasure to read. I'm speechless. I have no speech.

If the meta nature of this book doesn't dial down soon, I'm going to end up not liking it. It has been fun so far reading the many layers to the narration, but I'm sure it would tire most readers if it continued for the whole book.

What the F is happening!!!

'Lies of the Beholder' is out. But I don't remember much from the first 2 novellas in the series. Since they are quite short, I will reread both of them before picking up the final installment.

How come Cormoran Strike series went from being a thriller/mystery books to a cozy mystery??!! I mean, I enjoyed the cozy aftermath of book 3 but this is too much. This is too slow and the plot is incoherent. If things don't change soon, this is set to be a hugely disappointing book for me.

Just a few pages in and I'm already very impressed. I really like how the author doesn't explain too much but just says 'the person took a pose of acceptance with a nuance of mockery'. Because while this is the complete opposite of 'show, don't tell', this is the nature of the culture within the story, so it is quite fascinating.

Also from the looks of it, Poets seem to be the Magi equivalent in this setting?!!

Too slow. While I like reading Cormoran Strike and Robin adventures, this book has started off too slow on its mystery. The damned length of the book isn't encouraging either.

Sanderson is truly an exceptional world builder. I've read the first 9 chapters available online and this looks like it is going to be spectacular. Can't wait for the book to be out!

This has a lot of Ender's Game vibe to it, but I'm kinda sure Sanderson is going to pull out some new and crazy stuff from his imagination.

Sanderson has released the first 9 chapters of this book that will be out on Nov 6. The Paperback is releasing a month late in India 🤦‍♀️ I'm very excited to be reading a non-Cosmere novel by Sanderson.

Isn't Gavrilo Princip just one man among many others who were spread out in the streets waiting for Archduke Ferdinand and his wife to passby. Aren't the other assassins going to be successful in killing the Austrians and therefore the war would still happen even if the original assassin is stopped.

Or was this info left out to create suspense? Pretty crucial info to not talk about while planning the timetravel op.

Time travel to the past is not possible. That's why I avoid time travel fiction. I don't know why I picked this up because I can't get it out of my head that this is not how time travel would work if it actually did. Changing course of history is never happening, not with anything including time travel. It is hard to forget this while reading time travel fiction, and so the fun goes out of reading.

It would be easier to believe in magic than in time travel in my opinion. Especially if many worlds theory is not involved in any version of time travel that we come up with. It just doesn't seem possible, but the fact that I feel confident about my view without having 0.1% the intelligence of greatest minds in our history makes me doubt myself even though I feel I know I'm right for reasons I cannot put in words :D