Shadows of Self

Either I’m getting kind of tired of Brandon Sanderson’s writing style or this book in particular didn’t resonate well with me. It wasn’t boring and the story was interesting enough, it just felt kind of annoying at times.

I must admit that it’s been around ten years since I read the first Mistborn trilogy and while the fourth book in this series worked quite well as a standalone, this one was having a lot more references that I no longer understood. I wish there had been more explanations for those than endless repetitions of how pushing, pulling and metalminds worked.

Of course, as usual, the ending was very well written and made up for a lot of the shortcomings.

The weakest of the series so far. Feels obligatory. Still worth reading with the rest of the series.

This review will take the form of my reaction as I was finishing it.

Gee, this is quite the page turner. Better than Alloy of Law, with interesting Allomancy tidbits to boot!...wait, that's odd... that shouldn't be possible, why is that happening...wait -what?! Oh, fck you Brandon Sanderson! Fck you! sniffle No... I don't cry during fantasy books... sob

Well, the big twist that was foretold hath surely passed, time to finish the last couple of pages, and WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THAT?!

Meanwhile, somewhere in Texas, Brandon Sanderson is chuckling with glee... secure in the knowledge that he has distracted the vast majority of his fans that progress has not been made on Stormlight 3 for months now