Winds Alight

South Western Germany here

It took me a while to get into WoK too. Though I immediately fell for the Kaladin chapters, Shallan was a challenge. I didn't like her, I didn't like her storyarc, I didn't want to read her chapters and I even caught myself flipping over some pages (shame on me for that. In a re-read I won't to that anymore.). It was shortly after I finished school and had no idea what to do with my life, bought my first computer and spent my days on the blasted thing and I struggled with the language. I hadn't read that many English books back then (German is my native language) and it was hard to keep up with all the explanations and descriptions. So, I crawled through he pages like a chasmfiends with cut off legs through too narrow chasms. I even read one or two books in between and didn't continue WoK for days, almos weeks. I don't remember how long it took me to read Mistborn, but I know I was through book one in no time. With WoR, it was quite similar. It tooke me ten days for the first half, and three for the second. Two weeks whole and I could have done better.

Steelheart. The trilogy would make awesome supervillain movies. High fantasy, especially something like SA would be close to impossible to be made into a movie or series. They would have to change things, and I most certainly don't want that. Besides, look at the Cosmere universe. It's HUGE. You'd HAVE to leave out something, entire episodes in movies or TV shows. And that's absolutely impossible to do. SA alone is too big and complex for that. You'd have to wait for it to be complete to know what can be left out and what can be changed. And considering my previous experiences with Sanderson's works, a single rock that Kaladin stepped on on some random bridgerun could be Odium himself. I just don't believe that SA would ever WORK as a movie. Elantris or Warbreaker maybe. Mistborn ... yes, I think. But Cosmere itself is too big to FIT into movies. They could never ever get every connection, and in Sanderson's books EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT. Really, I root for Steelheart. And on HBO: I love ASoIaF, but the TV show was a disappointment to me. Please, no. Don't do to Sanderson's work what was done to GRR Martins books.

Mistborn: Warbreaker:

I liked Elend (his name confuses me. He's called "Elant" in the German books, because "Elend" is the German word for "misery".), but Kelsier is crazier, darker and more interesting.

Wow. Suddenly, the very random and not so fitting German cover looks kinda sweet: The title translates to "Children of the Mist". German publishers have a talent for changing the title in the translation and make something new, very unfitting. Book one of Mistborn was the best one ....

When "Storms", "Storm it" or "Damnation" become part of your daily vocabulary, even though English isn't your native language. (And yes, that happened to me.)

Harry Potter. I grew up with the books. Lord of the Rings was my first high fantasy with a totally different world. After that came Eragon and a trilogy from a French author. I have no idea if it was translated to English and if, what the English translation of the title is. I was 14-15 at the time.

Ben Aaronovitch's "Broken Homes" (the German edition though). I love this series so much.

The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. The first two and a half books were great, but the showdown end ending felt so wrong to me. Like a U-turn. Suddenly, everything was different and didn't match the whole story anymore. Also the Traitor Spy trilogy by Trudi Canavan, the Sequel to the Black Magician trilgogy. It was enjoyable, but not in the way it should have been. And of course there's Eragon. But I still liked the series. It improved toward the ending. Oh, and, I almost forgot because I never read past book one: "The Left Hand of God" by Paul Hoffman. That was just ... not good with tendencies to being awful. Also I stopped after the first book of Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy. Boooooring!

I've pretty much given up predicting ANYTHING in a Sanderson book about five books ago Still I somehow, sort of, predicted Steelheart's weakness. I didn't get the "no fear" thing, but I thought in this direction with him being able to get killed by someone who doesn't want to kill him or doesn't think bad of him. I think this deserves half a cookie.

Hypocrisy - The Departure

I first stumbled over the Mistborn trilogy in early 2010, when the books were published in Germany. I had never heard the name Brandon Sanderson when I saw the first Mistborn volume in a book shop and read the summary on the back. I was like "Uh, this sounds just like the typical 'kill the evil emperor' fantasy book". I bought it anyway and storms, I am so happy I did that. I immediately fell for it in the first chapter. It's just so much NOT the "typical" fantasy book, or rather, it is, but still something new and extraordinary.

Leaving out all of Sanderson's works and LotR (which is totally out of competition), my Top 5 Fantasy series are: - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy by N.K. Jemisin - The Black Magician Trilogy and Age of the Five by Trudi Canavan - The Broken Empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence - A Song of Ice and Fire by G.R.R.Martin - Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

Wow. The Warbreaker thing. I see. That's embarrassing. But then again, I read that one more than four years ago and I forgot so much. Shame on me. I wish I had time to read all of Sanderson's books again, I also forgot half of Mistborn and Elantris Uuuh ... well. I don't think I would like that.

Right now I'm reading "Die Verschworenen" (something like "The Conspiring Ones" in English) by Ursula Poznanski. It's the second book of a trilogy set in a dystopian universe. Similar to the Hunger Games or Divergent. So far, I like it.

Thanks Uhm, can't say that I have, no. Ans well, what could that be.

Well, this is gonna be long. And loud. I will YELL at things. And there will be spoilers. Of course! I started reading the book 3.5 weeks ago because I kinda had to. It has been four years since I read The Way of Kings and I forgot a lot that happened then and I didn't want to lose everything. And I had three weeks of vacation, wo I figured "Now or never". I didn't really expect three weeks to be enough since I needed almost two months for The Way of Kings, but I was done in two weeks with WoR. I was kinda slow in the beginning, but the second half I took like four days and then I was through. I kinde measured the book in Kaladin chapters from the beginning and was grinning whenever I read about him. Jasnah's death really got me unexpected. I was just like "Wait what, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?" (when of course it actually DID NOT HAPPEN, as we saw in the epilogue, but back then, I was surprised) Also, Shallan surprised me in book two. In book one, I didn't like her all that much and when I learned that book two would be centered on her, I groaned internally. But then, everything changed when the Ghostbloods attacked. Without Jasnah and all on her own, she got so very exciting. Pattern helped in that. I loved him from the beginning. Throughout the book, I still craved for every piece of Kaladin. It was great to see him from different POVs, Dalinar, Adolin and later Shallan. I thoroughly enjoiyed every scene in which Kal was in hte chasms with his crew. The surgebinding practicing was fun. When it came to Adolin's relationship to Kal, I found myself waiting for them to beat each other up and then become friends afterwards. When Shallan an dKaladin met for the first time, I was laughing hysterically. "Boots!" This was GOLDEN. I almost wet myself when Szeth first attacked. They all were so utterly unprepared and my heart almost stopped when Kaladin got hit. Dalinar's reaction to finding out Kaladin's alive was kind of touching. He ... cared. The four on one duel was so intense, I had to read until deep in the night. After that, it took me only three days to finish the book. This fight was what really stopped me caring about anything else than this book and what happens next. I cried my eyes out when Kaladin was in prison and said "Never again". Later it was kinda funny how Dalinar said that every soldier at least once in his life spends time in prison and that it isn't a big deal at all. And, of course, ADOLIN LOCKED HIMSELF IN A CELL TOO because he didn't think it was right to lock Kaladin in. I LOVE the guy, SO MUCH. And Adolin WEARS COLOGNE IN PRISON. This was the moment I definitely knew those two were going to be BFFs. Despite their differences, they are very much alike. And. AND. KALADIN AND SHALLAN, IN TH CHASMS. I alawys mark scenes and lines I love most with post-its, and the chapters they spent together are the ones where I got two post-its on one page because THIS WAS SO PRECIOUS. Of course, they acted stupid and I kept yelling "You are so dumb! BOTH OF YOU!!!" I really wasn't surprised to see them kiiiiinda fall for each other. I'm looking forward where that's going to lead to. Love triangle? This could be bad, but at the same time absolutely hilarious. Kaladin losing his powers and fearing he killed Syl with his plans was TORTURE. HOW COULD YOU. From the first moment on when hi actually considered killing the king would be A GOOD IDEA I was all NO DON'T DO THAT IT'S A BAD IDEA. And then came the big showdown and Kal became what he needed to be. Yes, I was excited, I grinned stupidly and read the scenes over and over again because I couldn't get over them. The big fight Szeth vs Kaladin was extremely intense. And Adolin GRINNING BECAUSE HE KNEW "SOMETHING WAS OFF ABOUT KALADIN". And "you too?" to Shallan See what you've gotten yourself into, boy. The end was ... hard. I think having killed Sadeas will have consequences. Well, OF COURSE it will. And I'm afraid it will make Adolin a much darker man than the bright lad he is now. The Lopen starting to glow made me cheer loudly. The whole book made me cheer. When I finished the last page, I had to go back and read many scenes again. And I will to so many more times. I know this. I'm sorry for this nonsense. But finally I got it out of my system. All the emotions!

Kaladin. Since like ... the very first chapter he appeared in. He just is the kind of character I always fall in love with. After him come Adolin, Shallan and Wit. Shallan got there in WoR, where I reall fell for her. In WoK I didn't like her all that much. And surely, Syl and Pattern. You have to love them. Dalinar is close up to the others, along with the Lopen, Rock and pretty much the whole Bridge Four crew.

I'm with most of you: I'm genuinely terrified. At this point, after WoR, I'd be devastated if Shallan, Dalinar or Adolin died, but I don't know if I, should Kaladin die, were able to, I don't know, go to work the next day. Of course, I But Kaladin ... is a different matter.

Thank you all And I think I'll pass on the cookies, thanks

Hello there, I just found my way here and needed to join the community. I'm 23 years old, female, from Germany and a huge fan of all of Sandersons books, and I badly need people to talk about the books I just finished Words of Radiance last week and it was one of my favorite books ever. And I think I'm a bit obsessed with Kaladin. I love reading in genereal (especially Fantasy), work in a bookshop, write stories (though not very good ones) and love horses, cats and music. I hope we can have a good time here