AlwaysAnotherSecret

I was introduced to the books through Alcatraz. I was handed them a few years ago and I loved them (I was fairly young at this point). I read them over and over again. For those few of you who have actually read the series, you know that the books make references to Brandon Sanderson's "bad" fantasy novels. I naturally went to the bookstore and picked up one of Brandon's books, Mistborn (I thought it looked more interesting than Elantris). I loved it and read the rest of the trilogy and soon read Warbreaker and Elantris. I had no intention to read Way of Kings, it was too long and seemed too traditional fantasy to me. Sanderson's books at that point (about a year ago) were the only fantasy books I had read and I was skeptical of the entire genre and WoK seemed to be fantasy without any of the interesting "gimmicks" (Brandon's own word for the "hero fails to save the world" idea) that had intrigued me before. A few months later when I wanted something that would be entertaining and would take me more than a day to read. I fell in love with WoK in a way I had never experienced before. I could read the book a hundred times and never understand, let alone remember all of the nuances. I began to religiously follow Brandon's website and listen to Writing Excuses, and now I'm here.