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Posted on 5/12/26 at 7:15 pm to GOP_Tiger
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that I was very disappointed in the end of Wind and Truth.
Yeah, it took me forever to finish that book. The last two books of the 5 had so much pointless filler. Sanderson is in desperate need of better editing and people not blowing smoke up his butt.
Wind and Truth pretty much killed my interest in the next 5 book series. Adolin's story and to a smaller extent Szeth's story were the only interesting parts.
And as you said it was a BS way to end a huge 5 book series.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 10:08 pm to lonestar50
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Reading City of Brass. It took awhile to get relationships and history straight in my mind but I think I'm good now and enjoying it.
Almost done with the final book of the trilogy. Definitely confusing for a while. Series gets stronger as it goes.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 10:35 am to hogfly
Finished the Bloodsworn Saga last night.
That was a nice, relatively easy read. Pretty straight forward with some good fight scenes. He writes those pretty well. My only complaint was it was a little predictable and despite god's being involved, the stakes never seemed as high. Took three books for a story about Orka, Varg, and Lif's revenge.
But I'd say a solid 4/5 trilogy, book three being my favorite.
That was a nice, relatively easy read. Pretty straight forward with some good fight scenes. He writes those pretty well. My only complaint was it was a little predictable and despite god's being involved, the stakes never seemed as high. Took three books for a story about Orka, Varg, and Lif's revenge.
But I'd say a solid 4/5 trilogy, book three being my favorite.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 12:23 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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But I'd say a solid 4/5 trilogy, book three being my favorite.
Pretty much how I felt about it, particularly with your stakes comment. It's a solid series that's well worth reading, but not nearly on the same level of his Faithful and Fallen series.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:47 pm to auyushu
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The last two books of the 5 had so much pointless filler. Sanderson is in desperate need of better editing and people not blowing smoke up his butt.
Wind and Truth pretty much killed my interest in the next 5 book series. Adolin's story and to a smaller extent Szeth's story were the only interesting parts.
And as you said it was a BS way to end a huge 5 book series.
I still liked reading The Stormlight Archive. Roshar is such a great world. I'm just mad about the ending. Well that, and I also didn't like the preaching that Sanderson did towards the end (disabilities in Dawnshard, mental illness in Rhythm of War, and the gay love story side plot of Wind and Truth ). I can tolerate some of that, but I don't know if I want to read five more books of that (whenever those happen).
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Posted on 5/15/26 at 1:04 pm to GOP_Tiger
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Well that, and I also didn't like the preaching that Sanderson did towards the end
None of that would really be an issue as long as it was just part of who the characters were and part of the story because of that. Sanderson made it be almost the entire story during Wind and Truth, which made it so the book had no flow. Shallan, Dalinar/Navani, Kaladin, and Renarin had nothing to do for 90% of the story, so it was nothing but infodumps and pointless trauma porn for most of the book.
I honestly thought Dawnshard was a good example of how to do it right. Her disability was just a part of who she was, and didn't spend an inordinate amount of time on wallowing in it. Shallan and Kaladin having major trauma and working through it is fine, but it shouldn't be the same ole BS in book 5.
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:16 pm to auyushu
Finished The Three Musketeers and it didn’t come close to Monte Cristo. Decided to start this based on a friend’s suggestion.
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:36 pm to Esquire
Small world also just started Assassins Apprentice. Much different pace after Dungeon crawler Carl to say the least but liking it 6 chapters in. Curious the boards thoughts on it too.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:54 pm to spehog
Finished Book 1 of the Academy of Outcasts by Larry Correia. Good enough that I'm moving forward with Book 2. I like the world building and the characters pretty well. Some of the writing is a little... meh stylistically, but I'm entertained.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:07 pm to Esquire
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Finished The Three Musketeers and it didn’t come close to Monte Cristo. Decided to start this based on a friend’s suggestion.
Yea, not even remotely close. Was pretty meh on it.
Assassin's Apprentice/Farseer trilogy was a meh for me as well. It was legit hard to get through. It got so much praise online and after reading it I just don't get the praise. She was talked up as writing the best characters and devastating story and when I finished I was like wtf.
Hope you enjoy it though
Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:20 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Three Musketeers started well enough, but it devoted entirely too much time to Milady in the second half of the book. I have no motivation to read the next two books in the trilogy.
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Assassin's Apprentice/Farseer trilogy was a meh for me as well. It was legit hard to get through.
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Posted on 5/27/26 at 11:18 am to spehog
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Assassins Apprentice. Much different pace after Dungeon crawler Carl to say the least but liking it 6 chapters in. Curious the boards thoughts on it too
It's a solid book series to me. It's very much a slow build, character driven series though. Not a ton of action, at least particularly in the first trilogy. She's not someone I find myself suggesting much these days due to the abundance of good fantasy authors, but she's very solid.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 12:59 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Assassin's Apprentice/Farseer trilogy was a meh for me as well.
Same here. Seemed like the whole trilogy was the main character feeling bad for himself. He made Kaladin seem straight up happy.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 9:38 am to Loup
Asked the Sci-fi/fantasy board on fb thoughts and responses were flooded mainly positive. Had a couple dnf too. Seems like most it was an early fantasy series they read and it hooked them but there is prob better stuff out there now. Dunno it was that or continue Cradle. I’ll prob do the first three and go from there.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 10:44 am to spehog
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Asked the Sci-fi/fantasy board on fb thoughts and responses were flooded mainly positive
I read the original trilogy because of that group.
Just tons of posts like "Robin Hobb has destroyed me emotionally", "this series BROKE ME", "my soul was never the same after this", "Hobb writes characters that will stick with you a lifetime."
I got done and was like wtf did I read the same books as these people? Or have the only read Robin Hobb? I liked maybe one to two characters in the entire trilogy and it took 2.5 books for it to even feel like a fantasy series.
Supposedly the Live Traders (something like that?) is a good bit better. Don't think I'll give it a shot though.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 1:21 pm to spehog
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Seems like most it was an early fantasy series they read and it hooked them but there is prob better stuff out there now.
This is a lot of it with Hobb. When she came out there wasn't as much good fantasy around.
I enjoyed all three Fitz trilogies, but I've never reread any of them and don't plan to. And I didn't bother to read the last trilogy until about 7-8 years after they came out, to show my interest level
. As Iwy mentioned the Live ship books are better in terms of action and being more pure fantasy, but if you don't enjoy Fitz at all I wouldn't bother.
It's definitely no Cradle series (particularly once Cradle takes off around book 3-4).
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Posted on 5/28/26 at 4:49 pm to auyushu
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As Iwy mentioned the Live ship books are better in terms of action and being more pure fantasy, but if you don't enjoy Fitz at all I wouldn't bother.
I personally disagree. I enjoyed the stories because of Fitz, nighteyes the fool, Verity, Chade etc much more than the Liveship books.
As a matter of fact I just relistened to the audio books of the Fitz series and skipped right over the Liveship stories this time. Just wasn’t as interesting to me
Posted on 6/3/26 at 1:40 pm to CottonWasKing
I don't have the time to scan through all 80+ pages but has anyone read The Amber Chronicles series? If so, what are your thoughts? It seems to very highly regarded.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 2:17 pm to AUveritas
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The Amber Chronicles
It's an outstanding series, Zelazny is awesome. The first set of 5 books in the series is much stronger than the second set of 5, but still a solid read.
I highly recommend Lord of Light and A Night in Lonesome October by Zelazny as well, particularly Lord of Light.
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