Review: Wind and Truth

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Dear Brandon Sanderson:

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU STORMING DID.

You took ten days of intense in universe buildup to a contest for the ages, for the world, for the Cosmere…and because it’s you, the man who wrote Mistborn as a targeted subversion of fantasy and chosen one tropes all along, you gave us your Infinity War. And unlike that infamous ending, we won’t be waiting a year for it to be resolved. It’ll be at least seven till we get the next adventure, even though some of our storming faves won’t be around for the next one after all the loopholes and Shadesmar and space-time-warpage and breaking of everyone’s fragile psyches.

It’s appropriate that this book came out now at a time when America is falling to another round of fascism, because Odium reminds us all how evil can do whatever the storming hell it wants and the good guys are hamstrung by having to play by the rules.

After this book, I’d say it’s time all the shards of Adonalsium faded away for the good of the Cosmere.

But that’ll be a long time coming.

At least we’ll be getting more Mistborn and Elantriswhile we wait for Stormlight 6 in seven years or more. But once again, Brando Sando…

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU STORMING DID.

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