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A linguist, chemist, and an ENT are just 3 scientists needed for the olfactory communication of the jellies. Chris didn't do his homework🤷🏻‍♂️

In short, instead of epic fantasy, we got gay shit. That's who's interested in what Brandon says about it. People waited 15 years for these books , but what did they get in the end? You wanted to try something new, write another book that won't be a continuation old books.

You finished this book in just 5 days miss? That's like nothing for this monstrosity.😆 You are very fast miss.

Beyond the dialog the worst part is the ending Spoiler warning.. Dalinar renounce his oaths, cripplinghis allies giving his enemy a shard and essentially murders the stormfather. Why? To let odium free so the other shards will fight him. Problem, in book 2 or 3 dalinar says something to odium and odium asks him if he is freeing him from Roshar, dalinar can set odium free, he does not need to renounce anything to do it, so he cripples his allies, murders the stormfather, and all that for no reason.... Also since he technically lost the contest isn't he now odiums tool? How does he get out of this? Like the whole end sequence is incoherent.

Too many pointless events for my taste, far few interesting developments, and too many odd choices IMO And an overall tepid experience.

Sanderson has always been a pedestrian writer, but his shortcomings may have been masked by his editor, Moshe. Now that Moshe is no longer involved, Sanderson is free to release his middle-grade-level prose. Sanderson is like Nickelback-it sort of resembles music and is popular, but it isn’t truly music. Nirvana is music, and Rothfuss is Nirvana.

This book was just plain terrible, and i'm actually surprised there are not more people talking about it. I am actually surprised by how many people are giving it just "GLOWING" reviews.

100% agree that marketing this book as an “explosive climax” was a bit misleading. I thought the ending felt more like a setup for other books rather than a conclusion. Which is fine I suppose, just not what I thought we were getting.

I agree, this book made me uninterested in reading more 😊

I miss the old Brandon, the always gold Brandon

My disappointment is that I have to wait until 2033 for the next book. I’ll be 57!! My heart is broken.

I have very similar feelings as you, though it seems like I felt much more satisfied with the ending. Maybe that's partially because I wasn't expecting a full conclusion. For me, it feels like a great story ending at the end of a season of TV rather than a series finale. I loved all the plot points at the end, and I'm excited about what the next five books explore. But I do agree about the length, pacing, and some of the writing. It's the weakest in the series in many of these ways, and I had to slog through some of the middle parts. It seems like there are many chapters that could have been trimmed or merged for the sake of brevity. The prose, humor, and modern language/diction also disappointed me at times. With those issues aside, the writing still does a good enough job for me. The simple prose serves as an accessible vehicle for the plot and characters. The plot and characters are what I adore about this series, so I greatly enjoyed those fundamental aspects. Some better writing and pacing could have elevated this book to greatness, but I still enjoyed it as is.

One correction: a normal audiobook is not 10 hours long; that would be a very short book. " Normal" books are around 18 to 24 hours long. Around 30 hours are considered long, and anything above 40 hours is huge. Wind and Truth is around three times longer than a normal book. Which is a lot and clearly unneeded in this case. I was also very disappointed with this book, is Sanderson worst book in a long time.

According to the kobo site, Wind and Truth takes 43 - 47 Hours to read and has 528k Total words.

I definitely had my standards set too high going in. It wasn’t a bad book or journey, but it was a little disappointing. It’s a 7/10 for me sadly because I thought it was gonna be a 10/10 but 🤷🏼‍♂️

I love Cradle it’s such a fun series

This has matched my experience almost exactly! Thank you for the review

I wish 2010 Brandon wrote this book

I agree so much about the interludes! I loved that they were so short

I totally agree about the flashbacks being too long, boring

You've got a great point here about the marketing being misleading. It certainly doesn't feel like an end to the series

I feel like book 5 has just embraced the idea that therapy is more important than honor.

The DEI stuff in the book was immersion breaking for me. I thought that because Sanderson is a Mormon, I would never have to read crap like Renarin/Rlain or Rushu’s interaction with the Sibling in his books. I wonder if the publisher forced that on him or if he just decided to include it after writing 20+ books with little to none of it

I felt like i was being hit on the head with the dsm5 The characters dialogue sounded like coorperate self help cat posters 💀

Two points of frustration I understand. Unless you are in the fandom you wouldn’t have a clear understanding of what “climax to the first arc” means. Second is underwhelming Sanderlanche. There were eye openers and amazing moments but this doesn’t beat the ones in the past 4 books. Kaladins 3rd and 4th ideal reveals where so epic.

This book undoes everything Oathbringer accomplished...am back to reading bastion.

Until Sanderson hires another editor who isn't afraid to call him out on his bloated prose, I have no interest in reading anymore. The difference between his latest work and his earlier work is astounding.

I also enjoyed the book, but was a bit disappointed with parts of it. I went into it also expecting Mistborn era 1 epic and beautiful ending but still a downer ending. I felt like the overall ending was too messy here and more bleak than it needed to be. Then I remember Sanderson's release schedule as of now and we're not going to see what happens next for several years. So this is it for a while.

Great review! Hopefully, Sanderson fans don't downvote your video too bad

Agree with your review. I liked it but didn’t love the book. Definitely felt like it needed a better edit and was too long for what it ended up covering. The end didn’t feel like worthy of ending the complete five book arc.

Also worth mentioning: the writing is extremely bad. It’s very!!! repetitive that goes into the dialogues forming info dumps well within the non-realistic discussion scenarios: A ask question B answers instead of a “yes” as should but repeats the full discussion they had in the past “yes, they are the ….. “ for 5-6 lines. That’s an info dump handling the reader like children who can’t remember basic info plus adds a lot of pages to the book. And words like “laser sharp”… why do you talk like that? You know what a laser is? 👀 Not just in descriptive terms but in dialogues. So it’s one thing to use easy English to be accessible but simply bad? It’s not good. I’m not a native English speaker yet… I just finished before this (reread) Gardens of the Moon and the difference is hitting hard. That’s true for Way of Edan or Tad Williams’ Memory, Thorne and Sorrow books. All are well written and not a challenge to read for me prosewise. It’s not Lord of the Rings or Wars of Light and Shadow by Janny Wurts where the prose vocabulary is over the top. It was annoying. As for being boring? It should decide: it’s about war or heroes. Because at the moment it’s an Avengers movie type book and that has nothing to do with war. So if he wants to talk about the war? It’s not through super heroes. Not the general fights. The common soldier does. This martyr role won’t do it. Still Avengers.

funny how she said an issue with the book was that the character was a woman, specifically that she has a period and is emotional. that was a funny comment considering she is going through both of those in this video.

Sorry you got attacked by so many Paolini fans. They are mostly emotionally immature so they’re pretty volatile about people not having glowing opinions of their guy. I haven’t read the book yet, but I probably will eventually since I have a thing for reading terrible books that annoy me. Thanks for the review.

0:05 That emphasis on the word "science" to make it sound ironic like there isn't any at all is just inappropriate. Very much so since Paolini spent a year researching his FTL tech. It surprises me you didn't pick up on it, especially because you're a physiscs teacher. 1:38 Adrasteia is a moon orbiting around the gas giant Zeus in the Sigma Draconis system. Not a planet. 2:01 The Seed. Idealis. Whatever you wanna call it, not a space suit. Although it acts as one to some extent. 2:04 The Seed covers her whole body except the face, but it may cover it as well when she urges it to. Also, yoi are not basically her since the soft blade replaces her hair with its protective cover and the texture is one of fractal patterns. 2:17 I'd rather refer to it as a consciousness than a mind, "but whatever" (as you would say) 2:19 No... Just once on Adrasteia. 2:34 Kira tries shooting at a Jelly/Wranaui, hits an oxygen pipe or tank instead (sorry, can't remember exactly), at least it causes some sort of explosion that rips a piece of the seed off Kira. It tries to heal Dr. Carr and Qwon, somehow merges their conaciousnesses and finally, they form the Maw. But none of the characters know yet. Kira only finds out when a type of Nightmare touches her on a Jelly ship and tries to overtake her mind. 2:45 No. Kira, just as every other new "refugee" Falconi and his crew pick up, stays in the cargo hold for the time being until she decides to tell him about the seed and its significance for the war. 3:01 No... They're trying to get to board a jelly ship so Kira (and the Entropists) can learn about Jelly tech. 3:22 Nightmares are kinda like cancerous tumors somehow stuffed together to form something that can help the Maw fulfill its desires. 3:27 As I said, Kira and nobody else really know anything about the nightmares and she only gets to know on a Jelly ship when that nightmare tries taking over her mind. 3:37 "It's really not important to the plot" Okay, that's it. I'm giving up. Were you even listening to the audiobook or doing something else? Actually, I'm not giving in just yet. Even if this statement was meant to be ironic, Christopher did describe everything around Tschetter and the knot of minds well enough. About the UMC, as well. Remember Orsted Station? 3:56 Maybe you know more about the "main alien badass"? Ooh right, it's really not important to the plot. I'm gonna assume you meant the Maw, but then you skipped like a quarter of the book. You could at least mention the trip to Nidus to find the Staff of Blue... 4:23 Nightmares produced by the original Maw were a serious threat to all life. And can we talk about the seven copies of the Maw roaming god-knows-where and attempting to overwrite all life in the galaxy? No? Fine. 4:33 Oh, you did. Nevermind. A little more detail would be nice. I have seriously no idea how you can possibly screw up the plot this bad, turning and twisting to your liking, turning it into a scrambled mess resembling the cancerous abomination that refers to itself as the Maw. How could you forget about the voyage to Nidus? Right, you probably forgot how you could just igbore like a quarter of the book. Looking at the plot section in the wikipedia article about To Sleep in a Sea of Stars makes it clear that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Can the review get any worse? I shall see, but that's it from me for now.

I loved Eragon as a kid and I read it many many times and I really loved it and enjoyed it A LOT. The inheritance cycle was a good enough series. When I heard Paolini was wrotita sci-fi book I was SO excited! I waited years and years for it and I only got to read it last year. I was SO disappointed. I found the book so bland, bland characters, bland relationships, bland dialogues... It has a few interesting ideas here and there but I just never connected with ANY of the characters and didn't really care about anything that happened. I REALLY wanted to give it a try but I just gave up less than 200 pages in. Don't know if I'll ever try to finish it.

Try Seveveves by Reynolds.

Thank you... Thank you for reading it so I don't have to; thank you for saving me a few hundred dollars because I was toying with the idea of buying a signed copy and thank you for providing me with 26min of entertainment rather than 28 hours hoping the book will get better.

0:48 the lesser ones lol

This was so fun to watch. I felt pretty similarly about this book

I don't typically refresh myself on previous books in the series. I like just jumping in and trusting that the author will remind me if there's something important I need to know. However, there's totally exceptions. If I want to reread the series anyway, I'll use the new book coming out as an excuse. But I feel like there's also a danger of that route, in opening myself up to more disappointment. If the new book isn't as good as I was hoping, having it in stark contrast to the better earlier books in the series will just make it feel even more disappointing

Will this was a waste of my time lol

Ah a great fellow Eithan and haircut enjoyer. Yeah the foreshadowing is some of the best that I've ever read in a book series myself. When En=Oz reveal happened, most of the community were kinda already speculating that it is so. However, even when it was already staring in my face when when i was re-reading, the presentation was beautiful and I was satisfied with how he was revealed. Coming to the lacking resolution of plots in the later book, like how Jai long died, I think its because past book 8 the side-plots were cut by a lot to fit and resolve within the books themselves rather than when it was pre-book 8 where they were much more elaborate and given room to grow. A lot of the later books pacing was much faster but in trying to keep the pacing, the side-narratives felt pushed aside. But yeah, a lot of side plots and character arcs could've been way better resolved, not to say it's bad but could've been better. On your note about that the group should've participated in mad king's fight, I disagree. They would've gotten wiped out instantly if they were anywhere near it simply because of the amount of authority and power getting thrown around. It would have also diminished the Mad King's narrative if a bunch of monarchs from a random iteration harmed him in any way. Who knows maybe we'll see something better in a later series.

so yeah i done both. the book is alright to read....but i kinda enjoyed it when Jennifer hale read it. her 'greg' voice was the best..... i was hearing 'hal' myself

I respect your opinion, though, I just with you didn't put so much crap on it.

I have read other books and after reading To Sleep I did NOT want my time back. It was worth it.

Good video! 10/10 I have been wondering about this for years. I am strong team 'read everything in full'

I enjoyed this review more than the book. Greg totally was the best character 😅

Many of the things you said were either not true or you just weren't paying enough attention (maybe read the book, instead of listening to it - helps to memorize better). The Entropists never said "Oh my God" or "Jesus''. In fact, neither did Kira - she says "Thule", whereas Hwa-jung says "Aish". The other ones could be Christians, their religion was never explicitly stated. So no, the author did not "forget" he invented new religions. The reason we never heard from the Numenists was because the crew of the Wallfish needed the more advanced technology of the Entropists to go after the Jelly ships, not because of their religion per se. It seems weird to me that Kira not knowing basic math, can put you off that much considering the book tackles so many grand subjects and themes (granted - it was a bit of a face-palm for me when I first read the card game chapter :D). I don't remember the book mentioning her being a math prodigy - she likes greenhouses and playing her concertina. And the Great Beacon was discovered when Kira was a child, not a few months prior to the start of the book as you mentioned. Speaking about Kira having an existential crisis over the Jellies being so different - not true. She was finding it frustrating that the English language does not have words to properly translate the meaning of the nearscent the Jellies use (that is - language barrier). The thing she was "shocked" more about was the fact that the Jellies and the humans didn't appear to be able to co-exist peacefully seeing as the former wanted their civilization to thrive and humans seemed to be a hindrance. Regarding Gregorovich - they called him Greg because they were referring to him in an informal way in a conversation when he was turned off. All the other times they called him by his full name because he was "on duty" operating the ship. Also, I find it hard to believe you cold not figure out that Greg is short for Gregorovich :D It seems pretty obvious, why the rant over something you could not piece together? Most of the time it felt like you were just nitpicking, rather than pointing out true plot holes. Seeing as you are a physicist, why didn't you touch upon the FTL and the idea of superluminal space (explained in more detail in the Appendix) ? Fascinating concepts, but you just focus on the negative (or rather - what you perceive to be negative)...

Great to see you back

While my total of TBR books is smaller; considering Claire's speed, she is more likely to clean out her lists than I am. 😅 My lists: - Fiction 46 - Non-fiction science/development - 30 - Historical/biography - 8