The Sunlit Man

This book was unacceptable. I like Brandon Sanderson. But this is straight up the worst thing I have read from Sanderson, and Frugal Wizard and The Lost Metal were already a new low. The dialogue and prose is cringey beyond belief, and half the word count seems to be engineering jargon in which Sanderson delights but contributes absolutely nothing to the reader.

Structurally, the entire novel seemed to be action without any sort of setup whatsoever. The characters seem to be complete cardboard cutouts. The worldbuilding was cool, but that's about all I can say about it - for all the thought and effort that went into the math of it, it never grabbed me or seemed to make any sense.

This book was an embarrassment for someone with the talent of Sanderson. It gets a 2/5 because it is technically a self published book, and for a self-published book, it's not bad. But I am expecting significantly more quality in Defiant and Stormlight 5 if I'm going to continue reading Sanderson's work.