Nardjan

The writing style took a few pages to get into, but the vibes of this book are top-notch

The concept of this books carries a lot, along with the character study that comes with it. I largely skipped chapter 11 which felt dreadfully slow and elaborate, but luckily the book picked up the story like nothing happened in chapter 12. A fine read, although nothing too special for me.

Nothing too special, but pretty good for how short it is. Has a good atmosphere. I liked it, a great palette cleanser between my think fantasy tomes

First part (1/6th?) was ‘hard' to get through. Just confusing because the whole series is. But then you understand stuff. Dead Town expedition, the rabbits, Old Jim, Lowry. I loved all 4 books for the cosmic horror and environment. Terroir. The parking lot puddles. If you've come this far and enjoyed the first 3 books, this is good stuff. If you dnf'ed book 2 or 3 then this 4th isnt gonna provide you any absolution. 4/5 for me. This whole 4-part trilogy should reward me a full re-reading. Someday :)

But actually, I dont understand jackshit at all and I'm gonna love reading reddit theories and watching theorie-videos. All the theories - that's book 5. The weirdness, what is real? Wtf is going on? The cosmic horror. I love it!

I found out this reading style is not for me. I love Brandon Sanderson's books, but in this comic-form I found White Sand to be quite boring, hard to keep my attention, hard to keep track of things (unannounced time and location skips), mediocre characters and feeling a bit guitly for not appreciating the art enough.

I always wanted to try manga, and I will at some point because right now I dont know if the whole comic book story-style is not for me, or White Sand just wasn't doing it for me.

Still very excited for the White Sand official prose to release as full book at some point (I believe Brandon is working on it) as I was unable to get my hands on the fabled “newsletter White Sand prose”. Hope I will like that more. (Review written in december 2024).