Gather round gentle listeners as we do our annual check in with Brandon Sanderson’s latest (sort of) books. This time Josh and Steph read Tress of the Emerald Sea and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. These excellent novels were part of Sanderson’s Secret Projects but are now available to all. We dug in, had a …
It feels cliché to say, even though it rings true, but Tress of the Emerald Sea feels like it’s the Brandon Sanderson remix of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. Not only will I not be the first to say it, but the author outright says it in the Postscript in a lovely story about how …
The days of The Lord Ruler and his Final Empire are long behind the Wax and Wayne gang and us as readers. Yet, the rippling effect of Brandon Sanderson’s original Mistborn trilogy echoes all the way to the final book in Mistborn’s second era, The Lost Metal. Before now, the series stood alone in the …
Imagine you’ve lived in the same house for the past 20 years. You know where the creaky floorboard is and how to pull that door just right so it closes properly. You know every room intimately, and you have treasured memories in each from different stages of your life. Now imagine one day in this …
The final book in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Era 2 is coming out on November 8th. Steph and Josh brought friend and fellow Mistborn lover Eli on to talk theories and speculation about what is going to go down as this series wraps up. Your hosts are Josh MacDougall (@FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (@OLaddieGirl), and Steph Kingston …
Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson is a novella set between Oathbringer, the third book of The Stormlight Archive, and the fourth, Rhythm of War. If you have not read Oathbringer, there will be spoilers for the previous books. You could read this on its own if you’re the type of intuitive reader to use context clues …
It has been a long three years, but the next installment of Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives is finally here with Rhythm of War. One year has passed on Roshar since the end of Oathbringer, and a lot has changed in the war between Odium’s forces, the combined might of the returned Fused, and the now-free Singers …
Nearly three years ago, the third book in the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson was released. Oathbringer brought a lot of change for Roshar, and three years can be a long time to remember all of the important events. Before you read Rhythm of War on November 17th, here are the twenty-five most important events …
With the third entry of Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archives, Oathbringer, releasing today, the arc that comprises the first five books is more than halfway through. The third book takes nearly all the events that have happened previously and reaches the height of storytelling for the series so far. From the beginning, Oathbringer is ripe …
No, there aren’t atomic Trichechidae in this story. It’s not that they would be out of place–this is a series about people with superhuman but often deeply strange abilities–but they exist only in the mind of the metaphor-destroyer and Steelslayer, David Charleston. Yes, David is back for this final installment of the Reckoners, and it’s …