I have 17 of my projected 25 read now. Books for the reading challenge. I feel like it is cheating to read a short story and have it count, but I really loved them and is 170 pages really a short story? The last one was The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson; can he do wrong? Now easily my favourite author, mostly because he writes so well and secondly because although I have read almost everything he has written, he has a new book waiting for me when I show up at the book store almost every time. The Emperor's Soul was awesome! Really. I read the first page and I was hooked and could not put it down. It was the magic (it was so great), but it was the setting (it was so well thought out), but no, it was the characters they built so well on so little.
There was only one primary character, two secondary characters and two tertiary characters; the rest were incidentals, but everything worked. In a way, the magic was a second primary character, because as you got to see how it worked you began to understand the character, the world and the other characters. That is what Sanderson excels at. Every book that I have read of his, the magic is the primary character that moves through the characters, the world and everything.
Well done!
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