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I just finished the Stormlight archive. It had some big issues but I liked it, especially put next to the Mistborn series which I have no interest in following after reading that first book.
The way Sanderson depicts the setting of the book is what made them so entertaining to me. The one thing that I will definitely remember about the trilogy is the weird fauna, making a world shaken by mortal storms populated by shelled beasts is very imaginative. The Shards were also pretty cool.
The first book is the best of the bunch, I think, it remains coherent and doesn't go in twenty different directions. The second felt short, and the third kinda unmemorable outside of the fiesta that was the battle against Odium and the Singers. Dalinar going super sayen, Jasnash vaporizing people left and right, Shallan doing... Whatever the fuck she was doing with her illusions while Szeth and the girl were playing a cartoon chase for the giant ruby left me kinda confused.
I wish the story focused more on Kaladin, Dalinar, Szeth and the bridge crew instead of spending so much time with Shallan and her fake tumblr multiple personality disorder and love story, there's plenty of human struggle to be found and explored in these characters already and it would have left more pages to tie the loose ends to finish the trilogy with a more satisfying ending. I feel like Sanderson doesn't know how to finish a book and always rushes it.

I don't know what to read, now. Is the Vlad Taltos series any good anons? Any recommendations?

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