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As always, spoilers for everything Cosmere except the three non-Tress secret projects. Spoilers for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure as well.
All of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere books are amazing and good. Appreciation is not a zero-sum game.
That said, The Alloy of Law deserves a lot more love than it gets, and so do Warbreaker and Elantris.
So, I must explain via a proper comparison between The Cosmere and the comic book / animé JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which may indeed be inaccurate, given my partial and piecemeal knowledge through limited exposure and cultural osmosis to the latter.
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Elantris / Phantom Blood: (Iconic first work where the author is constantly hyping up the protagonists' virtue and competence, but, in these days of morally ambiguous protagonists flawing up the place, it almost comes off as daring and original. Kills off characters who deserve their own spin-off. Makes you cry at the end. People say not to start with it because the creator's skills increase later, but the low points are higher than any other part's low points, everything is tightly paced and each event/character/place is straight-up iconic in a way that later, longer works would sandwich between fluff and filler)Mistborn trilogy / Stardust Crusaders: (The incredibly memorable one with the best fight scenes ever, probably the most iconic and meme-giving part, everybody pretends that certain segments of it don't even exist, people still geek out about the ending decades later, way longer and more ambitious than the iconic first work and the colorful adjacent work, people who haven't experienced the various parts think of this one when they think of the thing.)
Warbreaker / Battle Tendency: (Vibes, entertaining villains, and two or three standout moments make people remember this as the "fun colorful rollercoaster one" and forget how much the big gutpunches hurt.)
Wax and Wayne / Diamond Is Unbreakable: (Immaculate vibes, good times. Zany hijinks, nobody would have minded if it was longer even though it's long and has quite a bit of filler. Nobody has a problem with it. Manages a level of scariness none of the others do.)
The Stormlight Archive / Golden Wind: (Has its own fandom separate from everything else. People who like this one the best typically either started with it or didn't go in publication order. The ratio of fan art to quality of the original work is... yeah, the teenagers really like this one. Occasionally remembers to be awesome (When it does, everyone who talks smack on it goes silent and no higher praise exists than that). Marketed super heavily. I sez: Moar fights, less angst!)
