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OBAF is a great debut novel. It's highly inspired by lots of classic, but also other modern, fantasy books, but it never bothered me.
The pacing was really great and the world building was slow and steady. I think this book can speak to a lot of people, also those that are not familiar with fantasy.
Characters felt realistic and the small changes in POV definitely added to the story.

This was a step up from Leviathan Wakes. I loved that the writers added more POV's with very different personalities. The characters are well written and I felt more emotionally involved with them than in LW.
I definitely liked the fast pace and all of the action in this book.

This needs a movie adaptation!

3,5/5

The audiobook is a big step up from the physical copy of book 1 that I read. The narrator does an amazing job!

I still don't know what I think about this serie. Some parts are really awesome, but other parts are boring. There is too much repetitiveness for me and I'm more interested in the underlying world building, conflicts, ... then in all the fighting that is happening.
There also seems to be less humour in this book than in DCC.

I will finish this serie at one point. It's just not high up on my list.

I love Murderbot!

DNF. This just isn't a book for me.

Absolute PERFECTION.

The character work in this book is absolutely amazing! I loved every second of it.
Emotions are beautifully written.

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

This was a great book to start a big serie! It did however really felt like a first book in the beginning. The story develops slowly and focusses only on two main characters. The ending however, was absolutely amazing!

I'm really curious to see where the story will go.

This is a difficult book to rate for me.
I loved some aspects of it, like the world building, some characters and the epicness of the story. However, the page count doesn't feel justified and although they are some important themes in the book, I was never fully emotional invested in it.

Queen Amid Ashes really was Sun Eater 2.5. The story takes place between Howling Dark and Demon in White and also follow Hadrian with the well known first-person narration.

While The Lesser Devil felt like an action packed side step, this felt more like a must read addition to the main story. There are nice elements that deeper the world building and Hadrian has some small, but important, character development.

I usually don't give this low of a rating, but I was so disappointed by this book. It really didn't live up to the expectations. The blurb promised me a whole other story, since a big part of it actually isn't about the main character at all.
The characters felt really flat and the whole book was pretty much a cliché. Therefore I didn't have any emotional connection with the story, while that seemed to be the whole point of it.

What can you say after you finish a serie with over 4 million words... The journey has come to an end and it was a wild ride with lots of highs, but also some lows.

I personally enjoyed this last book and the ending! However, it is very plot driven and some battle scenes felt useless for me. There is constantly so much happening (which off course makes it really epic) that you get an overload at some point.
It would be more of a 4 star, but rating it 5 because of the overall journey! I will miss Rand Land a lot.

I will definitely need to process it all and look some things up in the wiki.

This is yet another great book in the serie, but left me a bit conflicted at the same time. Sanderson had the difficult job to tie up a lot of loose ends and it's when you read this book that you realize just how many of them there are. This means that this book sometimes focusses on boring characters that don't really matter or world building elements that were forgotten for 8 books.

However, there are many genius moments that made me hold my breath and some of those loose ends were really satisfying to see tied up. Everything is set up nicely for, what can't be anything other than, a grand and spectacular finale.

The Gathering Storm made me fall in love with The Wheel of Time all over again! Sanderson did an amazing job in taking it over and kept Jordans voice, while at the same time putting enough of himself in there as well.
It sadly also makes the obvious criticism of the previous books stand out even more. The Gathering Storm had way better pacing, way more emotional impact and had a constant flow moving forward.

I loved every story arc and couldn't stop rooting for every single character.

This is my favorite book, so far, and I can't wait for the last 2. Only 1900 pages to go before this journey comes to end.

The book has a bit of a slow start and can be confusing. Therefore it can take some time to get involved in the story, but it is really well constructed in its entirety.
There is this constant crescendo that keeps on going with the last 200 pages just blowing your mind.

I think where it shines even more then Empire of Silence is the emotional impact of the story and how the characters interact. It feels way more natural and I felt way more connected.

It's amazing that this novella is available for free, because it feels like a must read for anyone that is a fan of epic and action packed fantasy.

The story drops you immediately in a chaotic scene and you can barely catch your breath until the very end. There is obviously not enough time to give the reader all the information (if this is the first book of the serie you read), so you have to work a bit to understand the fantasy elements.
I didn't think this was too difficult because it (magic with elements, dragons and bonding, ...) felt familiar to some extend.

So although it's a very short book, Ryan Cahill succeeds in writing a story with a believable world and characters that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
I will definitely be reading the next books!