Sankara Jayanth S’s Reviews > Words of Radiance > Status Update

Same feelings as during the first read. Nothing much happens all book apart from few EPIC sequences until the story becomes freaking EPIC and rolls forward with incredible pace. The Sanderson Avalanches are truly something else but I can't help but criticize the length of his Stormlight Archive books. He packs a lot but personally, the slow pace is sometimes off-putting.

Wooohooooooo!

Hello, there....... Shall we destroy some evil today?

Okay, things are coming to a head. And Wit can shove his mysterious words up his ass.

For the love of almighty! This book is mediocre. Individual scenes have been great. But it got the story, characters nowhere where it should have taken them. Sanderson bottlenecks the story to create what's called an avalanche.

Well, I for one am getting tired of plodding through snail paced plot waiting for the avalanche to start. It's his writing style, but after my binge Cosmere reading, I've grow tired of this.

This is just stupid. I would endure slow unraveling of plots but the slow pace should be a consequence of all the obstacles that are in place. But when no obstacles are in place and your character goes, "Wait. Someone's dead. The world's about to end. Of all people, this X guy would sort of understand my outlandish claims. But I won't talk to him. Instead I'd sing, fa la la la laaaa".

This is fucking stupid!

Way to let down, Sanderson! After all the tension!

I'm so close to being pissed off about the entire fantasy genre and lengthy books in general. Every goddamned book has characters 'infiltrating' other groups. Every encounter between major characters ends with them still being dumb about what's going on, even though they could just speak about stuff right away after the 'same, urgent threat' they faced together.