That Diagram is amazing (Taravangian would be proud) and I know many people get very hung up on reading order. A friend of mine recently started on Sanderson and spent ages planning out his Cosmere reading order. TBH, I just tend to read in publishing order. I have really only read Stormlight and Mistborn sagas and the first book of Elantris. And yeah, I think you did see them linking a bit more in Era 2 of Mistborn (I won't say any more of course).
I enjoy his books for what they are: Relatively old school and safe. But easy to fly through. I do find them quite samey. I suppose you could say that is to be expected as they are all one part of same universe but structurally, they are quite similar. They are almost written to be easily converted to TV/Movie
I'm rereading Stormlight before book 5 comes out and. (Spoilers for Words of Radiance (Strormight Book 2)
You could practically see this on HBO or something. Episode 9 of 10. Szeth turns up at Shattered Plains, does his thing. Raises Dalinar. Then booooooosh, in comes Kaladin in superhero landing. Crash cut to credits.
Last Episode: Kaladin/Szeth flight fight; Shalan/Oathgate; Dalinar/Strormfather; Adolin/Sadeas. Credits. Mid credit: Jasnah/Wit
Non readers lose their sh*t
Read "The Stars are Legion" because Im an idiot who gets recommendations from Reddit and Goodreads.
I thought it might be alright at first, big fleet of worldships falling apart with no idea how any of the tech works or where they came from. Its one of the worst things Ive ever read, its just ridiculously stupid and boring. Also the main character has amnesia so you know what that means when its time for the big reveal at the end!
Yes its amazing, theres a sequel called River of Stars aswell, also excellent.
Read Under Heaven by GG Kay. Loved it. Best thing I've read in ages.
After slogging my way through to the end of The Faithful and the Fallen series wanted to get into something a little more lightweight. Started into Rivers of London series, so far very good, just the palette cleanser I needed. Not sure if its a young adult read but im really enjoying so far.
kinda starts getting mixed in from SA3/4 on - ghostbloods. If you've read them all have a look here for the connections:
https://17thshard.github.io/reading-order/#/
Well Ive read them all I just never made the association. It doesn't seem to really affect the actual plot anyway tbh.
Man... I have no words... I'd nearly say google - cosmere reading order - and pick one.
I'm also assuming this is all you did today.
Seriously? Mistborn and the rest didnt even cross my mind, also Id never even heard the word Cosmere, will do a bit of reading into it thanks. As I said Im tearing through it so Ill definitely read them, its the same as The Wheel of Time, irritating but cant put it down.
Finished the last book, total garbage. Don't bother.
Stormlight is great but you kinda need to buy into the connections with all his other series and overall Cosmere. If I hadn't read Mistborn I don't think I'd have given Starlight the patience. Book 5 ain't out til December so you can pace it. But I think it's great and worth the investment. Book 5 brings a lot of cosmere stuff to a wrap for now.
Ive been saving the Stormlight Archive for years due to it not being finished and me being a bit of a book hoarder but the complete lack of any decent releases this year made me give it a go over Christmas, meh, its not great is it? All a bit generic and bland, then again I look at the page count and see Im doing a few hundred pages a day so at least its readable.
Bone Shard Series -Andrea Stewart - annoying series that I just want to finish to see how it goes.
Bang average writing, and then this happened and then this happened etc etc. Now let me explain the characters feelings to you through words ... a lot of words.
interesting magic system and world. 6/10.
Read the new Murderbot novel(la?) 'System Collapse' and it's another solid instalment of my 2nd favourite sci-fi series.
Concludes the Grey People planet storyline from the previous book, but it's not samey.
Mild spoiler alert
Whole new story what with reinforcements both on the Barish-Estranza and University of Mihara and New Tideland side. ARTs humans are being developed, we get new SecUnits and even other ships like ART across another very solid Murderbot adventure story.
It's a very solid 4/5 albeit a bit shorter than the previous (meh). Worst thing about it is we'll have to wait ages for the next one now.
Do not read the sequel series. It's much more tedious.
40% through Book 3, Ruin from The Faithful and the Fallen series. Slogging through this series if I'm honest. Just can't get into it at all and have little or no interest in what happens. Only one character is the books grabbing my attention at all. Hate leaving books or series infinite shed so will stay going.
Hmm, I read all the books. Overall I liked the books. It opens up a bit when they move to the middle eastern type of stuff.
Read book 1 of Peter V. Brett Demon Cycle - tedious and a not going back for any more.
Oh I’ll definitely finish it. Have to, it’s a Bookclub book and it was my choice
Really enjoyed it and worth sticking with the series, although the (fourth &) final book could have done with a serious edit.
Here's some others slamming the Fourth Wing a little: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/Nqg5Gy0j1C
You're not alone
LOL @Thargor at Fourth Wing, I read the back of it and went this is Hunger games shite and put it down.
Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Similarities to 'The Martian' as in detailed problem solving but good story and best I read in a while. Which I have to put into perspective - its because I have read almost everything in my favourite genre and I moved to b (I think) material.
Can't wait for new Murderbot., 2 more weeks. Will probably start all over again now. Should be finished about when the new one comes out.. ;)
I dont know Id usually consider myself immune to that crap (gave up on anything Goodreads recommends years ago) but this was racking up 5* reviews everywhere including Reddit and the sales figures are ridiculous.
This is the book I see come up most often in the "overrated" posts on /r/fantasy .
Is it one of those "TikTok made me buy it!" sensations? I've found before those ones tend to generally be quite poor compared to others. It's often books that are pushed by those who've never read much fantasy / sci-fi and are "amazed" by a fantasy-lite series. Romance probably features heavily in it too.
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang.
About 1/3 through. Slog. Not great, seems vaguely like a cross between Harry Potter and The Good Earth. Supposedly it gets better.
Fourth Wing, supposed to be the best thing in fantasy in years, Amazon series on the way, 100k 5 star reviews, Hunger Games with dragons blah blah blah.
Its unbelievably bad, worst thing Ive read in ages. Its that same fecking character all these mediocre amateur writers infesting sci-fi/fantasy these days always write, fake cynical geek with the heart of gold who outsmarts everyone else with their smug modest genius. I think it was Andy Weir who started it, he won the lottery with an incredibly overrated self published book when he released the Martian and now you have all these amateurs trying to cash in the same way copying him, Ive come across this exact same character in 10 different books in recent times, all a copy of the astronaut in The Martian, even the astronaut in Project Hail Mary was a copy of the astronaut in The Martian!
Fourth Wing is particularly bad though, the author cant write, I actually get a whiff of AI off it it gets so bad in places.
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft, really enjoying it but feels like it changes tack midway
has anyone read this?
delighted to hear of a new murderbot!
Re-read Ancillary series by A. Leckie. Loved it.
Catching up on Sandersons projects from this year next
On 'Waybound' - Yep, all valid points. It suffered from people being over-powered and I never really got a sense of threat as a result. It just felt a little too easy and Lindon had too much luck with all the various artefacts he found. The Internet seems to love this series but it lacks any depth for me and is mostly one long action scene (which can be well done). Dross is the best thing about it easily. The other has effectively said there'll be more books in the universe so it's not quite over.
As to 'Children of Memory' - I liked it, but didn't love it. He took a different direction than before and I can see why but I think the material would have worked better as a novella than a novel. Series is just after winning the Hugo so obviously has fans! I did like his latest space opera trilogy, quite fun, and 'City of Last Chances' worked for me.
