The Problem with Brandon Sanderson (Today)
I feel like I need to qualify what I am about to say by first stating that I am, largely, a fan of Brandon Sanderson. I have the utmost respect for him for having stepped into The Wheel of Time and finishing it as well as anyone could have following the death of Robert Jordan. I think some of Sanderson's work, The Mistborn Trilogy (the rest of the saga is fine, but not up to snuff) and The Stormlight Archive (up to a certain point), are exceptional examples of what modern fantasy can be. What I take issue with is the attention that he lends to smaller projects, still largely taking place within his grand "Cosmere" but doing not much to expand and explore that universe. And as such, his magnum opus, The Stormlight Archive , has suffered from his diversity of attention. The care and effort that were so very evident in The Way of Kings though Oathbringer , in the first three Mistborn books, is almost entirely gone. The heart just simply isn't in the work. I do not...
