Warbreaker

I'm leaving my original thoughts here but, on reread, this book is not great. Not terrible, but I've levelled up in my expectations as a reader and my expectations of Sanderson; Sanderson, in return, has levelled up as a writer. I had another read in preparation for [b:Rhythm of War 17250966 Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) Brandon Sanderson https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1587089436l/17250966.SY75.jpg 23840265] and to see what I could see about that universe, which crosses over into Warbreaker.If you do pick it up, try and persevere through the first third. It does resolve itself in the end, but the beginning is really quite average.original review:So we'll get this out of the way first: Nightsong is the sword given to Szeth, right?I am loving everything Sanderson has set in his Cosmere universe, this book included. The similar-but-not-ness of the magic systems in each world is nice. This is the story of two sisters (and some villans and gods), as a stand-alone I think it hit the right notes. Certainly, action started happening before the 75% mark, which was a nice change in pacing from the books I've previously read by Sanderson.Vivenna really annoyed me the whole way through, but with good reason. She doesn't all of a sudden lose her privileged-princess upbringing when she rides off to save her little sister, or when the shit hits the fan, and then even when it does her level of naivety is both completely irritating and completely keeping character right through to the end.Again, the theology really drew me in, and I'm wondering if this is a Thing in this universe, or if Sanderson does it in all his books? And, now that I've read Internet Spoilers and realised that characters are crossing worlds (and series), I'm going to have to re-read the Stormlight Archive.