A video for top reads of the year (so far) four times a year would be awesome! March was a very productive month for you, Petrik (no surprise!). I am incredibly honored that The Way of Edan was part of it!
Happy to hear that March was such a success (aside from WoT, but we'll just pretend that didn't happen, lol). Your review of The Will of the Many got me soooo excited, I literally can't wait to dive in! And I totally agree with everything you said about The Way of Edan, I am so super eager to see what Philip has in store for us in the sequels!! My favourite reads of the month were 3 non-fiction books by Caitlin Doughty, which are all about her experience working in the death industry. I never knew death could be so entertaining, those books are amazing hahah. And as for fiction, I found new favourites in A Quiet Vengeance by Tim Hardie, The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons (never been happier to have given a series a second chance, I am loving it this time around!) and a prequel novella called Pale Night, Red Field by Joseph John Lee! Great wrap-up Petrik! 🥰
Thank you so much, Esmay! It was kinda expected of WoT to fail... I hope you'll love The Will of the Many as much as I did! And wow, quite surprised to hear you end up enjoying A Chorus of Dragons by Jenn Lyons more. That's really the beauty of a second chance and reading a book at the right time. We have to recognize that more! :)
I have started a new job in a new city, so this month has been the worst reading month I've ever had. Yesterday before going to sleep, I accidently found my Kindle which I hadn't seen for a month. Seeing it really hit me hard because of how less I miss it due to work and I am scared that I will stop reading altogether. I will try to make time for reading this month.
Argh, that sucks. But don't be scared. I think a new job in a new city just means you will need to take some time to adjust to a new schedule. I strongly believe once you're a reader, nothing can take you away from it. Even if you take a break from it for months of years, you will get back to it. :)
I can't wait to get to Untethered Sky! Fully expect to love it :) A Prelude to Ashes is a super fun fast paced read! I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Hoping to read The Shadow of What Was Lost this month, but if I love the writing I'll be sure to add The Will of the Many to my TBR 👀
If you make the videos, I'll watch them! My March Wrap-Up: - 4/5 - Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (a bit tropey/predictable, but I really liked it) - 1/5 - Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (DNF a few pages in; poor writing style, poor premise, poor beginning scene) - 4/5 - The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne (fantastic Action-Fantasy that I really liked, but with some repetition in plotlines) - 2.5/5 - Babel by R.F. Kuang (It was okay if you don't mind lessons in word history and footnotes) - 2/5 - Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan (It was okay, but very anti-climactic plotlines and some questionable treatment of female characters) - 5/5 - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (Awesome characters and themes in this second installment of the Gunslinger series - some minor gratuitous parts) - 4/5 - The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson (I really liked it, but some plotlines/promises closed in an unsatisfying way - I expected more with the Malwish and the leader of the Set) - 5/5 - The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang (Probably the best book I'll read this year. Excellent characters and character work, well-developed themes, and a beautiful mountain setting. The climax is near the middle, so expect a conclusion longer than usual.) Overall, a lot of highs and lows for me this month. The Sword of Kaigen was a standout! If this book is in your TBR, then give it a try. Thanks for recommending this one, Petrik!
Man. I can't disagree more about promise of blood. I'm about a third of the way through the autumn republic and this series keeps getting better. I urge you to continue on
POSSIBLE VAGUE SPOILERS BELOW @@seanhalpin87 I'm glad you enjoyed it, and that it gets better, but it will be a long while before I read anything else by McClellan. There are so many other writers and books I haven't read yet. What I mean by anti-climactic: there were 6 different instances in Promise of Blood (that I noticed) where the 3 protagonists just let their (sometimes captive) baddies get away. All that hunting/fighting to capture them? Pointless. And these baddies aren't escaping with magic, cunning and guile, I mean they just get up and walk away, often with the protagonist watching them leave. I didn't notice how bad this was at first, but when I started writing my plot review on Goodreads, and really thinking about the plotlines, it became shockingly clear how unsatisfied I was with this overused escape routine.
That is an incredible wrap up! Too bad Babel and Promies of Blood did not click with you. But I'm glad you loved The Sword of Kaigen that much. I consider that book a masterpiece! :D
Lol I told you man book 7 was terrible! I couldn't finish book 8 that's where I quit. I hope you can power through it, but I couldn't lol. Also in regard to your question instead of doing multiple top ten books of the year so far videos I think it might be better to do top 10 or top 5 of the books released in(or I read in) the last three months. That way the top ten of the year list would still feel rly special and you wouldn't just be talking about the same books over and over. Let's say you read the top 7 of the year in the January then all the videos would just be you listing off the same books lol. Regardless whatever you decide to do I'm sure id love the videos. You have a great way of talking about books and getting people excited for them without spoiling anything. It really is impressive and why you're my favorite booktuber.
I will do my best to persevere through The Wheel of Time hahaha. And hey, that's actually a good idea! So it's like the best Top 5 books I read in January until March. And then the 2nd video In July will be the usual top 10 books of the year so far. Great suggestion! I'll think about this! :D
I'm currently reading Sakamoto Days too, just finished v6, i really enjoy this manga, it's just a lot of fun. I've also just started Berserk Deluxe 13, shame it maybe a long time before we get another volume of this edition...if at all! I also have Dai Dark 5 and Zom 100 on my TBR pile for next. Always fun to see what manga you are also reading as well as novels/novellas
Sakamoto Days is soooo good! Have fun with it. I wish there are more volumes available. I just caught up to Jujutsu Kaisen latest chapters. I can't wait to see this all animated. Also, I'm envious of you. I need to get myself a copy of Berserk Deluxe 13 ASAP! :D
I definately want to hear about your favourites of the year so far 3 or 4 times a year. 😊 It will give me time to put some of the books on my tbr too. 😄 And of course the pick them up too.
Good luck with the remainder of the WoT slog, They all suffer from the same pacing issues and are overstuffed. However, they are a bit shorter in length. I will say that Winter's Heart is a small bright spot. I still consider book 11 (Knife of Dreams) middling, but at least it concludes plot threads that went on for several books. I'm finally up to the Sanderson written ones and I may get to The Gathering Storm in April. I'm not sure I'm in the mood for another WoT book this month and may push it out to May. My goal is still to finish the series this year. My favorite book/biggest surprise in March was A Shadow in Summer. I gave it 4.5/5, but it felt fresh and original, even though it was published in 2006. Definitely continuing the next book the series this month.
Thank you very much, Andrew! I'll do my best to persevere through the rest of Wheel of Time, especially the WoT slog. Good luck to you, too! Also, if you liked A Shadow in Summer already, I think the rest of the series will amaze you. The Long Price Quartet is a criminally underrated fantasy series. :)
i also don't like songs in books, but i like it in red rising, i think it's really harrowing in that series and adds to the tone of the book... also i love your t-shirt, subtle anime merch is my favourite :)
Y'know, it might be best if you read a summary of the Wheel of Time 8-10 instead of the actual books. Or just Rand's, Perrin's, Aviendha's and Elayne's chapters of 8, Rand, Mat(skip the middle chapters of Mat's) and Min's chapters of 9 and a summary of 10 plus the epilogue. That'd make things a helluva lot easier. Don't send yourself into a reading slump by trying to slog through stuff you obviously dislike. You won't be missing much by not reading most of 8-10, that I can say with certainty. The series picks up with 11 and of course Sando's work is top notch as always.
If it reaches a point where I really can't do it anymore, I think I will actually read detailed summaries of book 8-10 instead of reading them. This was torturous already. I definitely will not send myself to a reading slump because of Wheel of Time!
@@PetrikLeo BTW how are you liking the Frugal Wizard? I felt that it wasn't as good as Tress but is a solid book overall. The MC in particular is very compelling. Though the book would've benefited from being longer and slowing down the second half to have more focus on the side characters, IMO.
@@historymax5479 I just finished Frugal Wizard yesterday, and I guess... I liked it? But definitely not a favorite of mine. One of Sanderson's weakest book, imo, for the reasons you mentioned. I liked the 2nd half much more but the supporting characters are so underdeveloped.
In March I managed to read 8 books, but only one of them can be called SFF😅 Hopefully April is a better month for fantasy! I plan to read The Justice of Kings! (your review of it convinced me that it'll be perfect for me! )🤞
I think quarterly favorites would be good. I'm excited for Untethered Sky! I think I'll need to check out The Will of the Many. I have the Licanious Trilogy, but haven't read it yet. My favorite book this month and one of my favorites of the year so far is Godkiller. It honestly has taken me a while to read any of the books in the Wheel of Time and i've only read 2 of them, but had a easier time with the second one, since I moved to audio. I probably will listen to the audiobooks for the rest of the series.
I heard great things about Godkiller! I have to give that one a try someday. The cover art looks so beautiful, too. I hope you'll love Untethered Sky and The Will of the Many! James Islington's books are all amazing, imo! :)
Nice video. I only got to read 5 books for the month of March and the best was actually a horror novel under 200 pages What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher.
I just finished my reread of golden son last night. And my God, that final chapter, and how it sets up morning star is AMAZINGLY fucked up. I forgot details, but morning star is so brutal at the start, the table scene man...really really brutal
Yeah that ending in Golden Son... So damn brutal. I remember picking Morning Star immediately after I closed the last page on my first read! Looking forward to rereading Morning Star this month! :)
Brace for the next 3 books of WoT. It is going to be tough. But they all have great endings, and then you'll get to the end of the series, and that is straight fire. Wish you all the patience on this journey!
Hopefully you’ll find Path of Daggers to be much more engaging than A Crown of Swords like I did!! I also hated the Egwene and Aes Sedai stuff in Crown of Swords, and I think there was much less of that in bk 8. My Wheel of Time slog was limited to books 7 and 10, so it’s definitely not unanimous that bks 8-9 are also part of the slog, since at least I had a good time with those. So there might be hope yet! You have me so pumped for the Will of the Many! Great wrap up, brother!
Thank you so much, brother! I truly hope I'll find Path of Daggers better. A Crown of Swords was a huge mixed bag for me. The bloody Aes Sedai was maddening and boring at the same time. Ridiculous. xD
"there are so many Aes Sedai and they all have the same characterization. They all hate men" lmfao too true. Bro I skipped and my life was so much better. Nothing happens in those books 🤣 Great month for you Petrik! I'll be picking up Morning Star this month for sure and hopefully The Will of the Many as well, it sounds incredible.
Thank you, Kyle! I hope you'll love The Will of the Many. We seem to have the opposite reaction to books lately so you might just end up hating it a lot. And yeah, these Aes Sedai... they're driving me mad! xD
I had a great March. I read The Tyranny of Faith, The Wisdom of Crowds and Howling Dark, all of which were GREAT. The Tyranny of Faith was the best of the group. Also listened to the audio book of Constance Wu's book Making a Scene. She reads it herself and her delivery is fantastic.
That sounds like an incredible reading month. I loved both Tyranny of Faith and The Wisdom of Crowds. I haven't read Howling Dark yet, but Sun Eater is on the list this year! :)
Lot of great books coming out this year there's a couple our read when they come out the rest will be put to the back burner in the TBR list keep up the great work
I've been going through a reading slump these past two months. I could only read manga and webnovels. I started over 5 books (4 novellas + 1 non fiction) but could hardly reach halfway before putting them down 😒I hope I ll be able to pick up the pace this month. On a positive note, I made progress with SpyxFamily and Bungo Stray Dogs.
Argh that sucks!! I hope you will get over your reading slump soon. I love Spy x Family and I enjoyed Bunge Stray Dogs, though. Glad you liked them both!
Currently reading The Shadow of What was Lost and really enjoying it so far! I am seriously getting super excited for The Will of the Many from all that you've said about it - it sounds amazing. I actually started reading Vagabond for the first time last month! It's amazing - I can't believe I haven't picked up this manga series til now. I'm only a recent subscriber but really love your videos and the way you talk about books :)
Aww thank you so much! I hope you'll find plenty of great recommendations from my channel. I love love The Licanius trilogy and The Will of the Many. Fingers crossed you will, too! And I am happy you're reading Vagabond! :D
Love your wrap up. I also read what I think will be my favorite book of the year in March . It is "Speaking Bones" by Ken Liu and it got me into book hangover. Not even rereading a favorite, "Black Sun" could get me out of that feeling. Because of my mood I don't think I appreciated enough "Down" by Octavia E. Butler, but I'll continue with "Lilith's Brood" for sure. My disappointment was with one of my most anticipated short story for the year (I even preordered a quite expensive physical copy) "The Lies of the Ajungo". But now I have such a great time with the "Rook and Rose" books and I hope April will be a great reading month.
Thank you so much!! Haha, I love that Speaking Bones was so good that it put you in a book hangover. Always great when that happens. Even if it makes choosing the next book harder. 😂
You had such a great reading month! I finished the Licanius trilogy in March and it was a great ending and it's got me hyped for his next release (I studied Latin in school so the fantasy world is going to be right up my street!).
Fantastic! I’m excited to finish the Greenbone saga, and be able to read the novella when it comes out :) Maybe I’ll try Red Rising later this year - and I preordered the Islington book!
Told you, Crown of Swords is the start of the slog. You haven’t seen anything yet, just wait till you get to Winters Heart and Crossroads of Twilight. I recommend picking them up and skimming them straight through without reading anything in between because otherwise it would be very hard to pick up the series again. Those 2 are just so atrocious.
Yeah... The book was really annoying. There were some great parts but they're so bogged down by insanely repetitive and mediocre POV chapters. I heard the worst things about book 9 and 10. I'm scared to find out. xD
@@PetrikLeo I will say this… KoD, TGS and aMoL are worth it, although my hatred for Egwene went to extreme levels in Brandon’s books (not Brandon’s fault, just the character arc. I just really hate Egwene and Elayne).
We seem to have the same likes and dislikes when it comes to WoT, so I just wanted to give you a warning and some hope for the next book. I just finished Path of Daggers last week, and the first part of the book is definitely a slog. A lot of the female characters pov. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The last half of the book is mostly about Rand, and I flew through it. It actually made me want to start the next book right away, but I'm trying to pace myself so I don't get burned out on the series. Good luck when you get to it!
Thank you so much, Rich!! Okay, that is actually reassuring. Once I got over this saltiness, I will start Path of Dagger. Hearing that Rand covers the second half of Path of Daggers sounds really good to me! :)
The WoT suffers a similar issue as Dune by lowering bars for hyped-up groups. Aes Sedai who governed and directed entire kingdoms for over 2,000 years suddenly behave as if they are clueless high school girls. Instead of creating overwhelmingly deceitful and cunning villains, RJ resorted to lowering the bars by "let's make AS stupid". Aes Sedai concept was so interesting in beginning just fizzled...
I just started book 3 of WoT, and even though this series has been great so far, I've also heard that it's pretty dated in some aspects. I liked book 2 a lot, but I noticed that Jordan started writing all the female characters to just fall in love with Rand, which was incredibly cringe to me. Hearing from you that it seems to get even worse by book 7 is honestly disheartening. The romance scenes in these books are honestly difficult for me to read because I think they're terrible lol. 😅 Hopefully I like books 3-6! I've heard great things about those books.
Do not expect great things in the romance department. They are some of the worst I've ever read. Characters fall in and out of love with no feelings attached whatsoever, it's crazy. Great Hunt was actually my favorite until I read book 5 and 6. Book 7 was really mixed baggage, though! xD
Many will agree with you that A Crown of Swords starts the slog. Frankly, I think Lord of Chaos is where it starts. Other than Dumai's Well battle, the series just drags. It felt like "how many more books can I milk to increase more sales?"
@@PetrikLeo If you felt that ACoS is a slog, I am not sure if you can endure the next few books in the series. Sanderson's style in Cosmere is pretty slow-paced as well. He just adds more actions but the overall story flow is slow like RJ. 🤣
Crown of Swords made me stop reading WoT again. My review: "Slow and unremarkable. If you ask me next week what happened in this book, I might not remember." And I did not remember anything after a few weeks. LOL I started The Path of Daggers but I dropped at the first chapter. I just couldn't stand it anymore. I still want to finish this series some day, but Jordan's writing really isn't for me, even if I find the world he created amazing.
Jordan's writing is so hard to stomach sometimes. There are some moments of true greatness, but also as I said, bogged down by repetitive and pointless characters. :/
I’m a bit curious Patrick, have you read any Chinese web novels? If you did, do you have any favorites to recommend? You’re the only booktuber I know that read works from multiple languages or from different cultures, including my culture (which is Chinese) So I’m a bit curious to know you thoughts when hearing you talk about Mother of Learning😊
@@PetrikLeo oh I’ve heard of Lord of Mysteries! It is a popular one! Though I gave it up because of its Cthulhu element 😂 Anyway looking forward to your thoughts on this one!
You definitely put The Will of the Many higher on my list. I loved the Licaneous Trilogy so I was already interested. Your review and the book description has elevated it for me. I will likely read it close to release. As for WoT honestly, it was probably my most disappointing fantasy read. I feel like you can probably skip the slog and not miss much. Almost nothing of importance to the rest of the story happens that I remember. The last Jordan and then the Sanderson books improve but the whole series just felt bloated to me.I agree with your take on the Aes Sendai. The constant bickering and “men are dumb so they need to be guided by us” got old. I can understand it at the start but shouldn’t they grow up at some point 😣
I absolutely loved The Will of the Many and the Licanius trilogy by James Islington. I think you'll love The Will of the Many, too!! As for The Wheel of Time, yeah this is a series with a LOT of issues. I will try my best to persevere through the slog portion of the series, but if I can't stand it, I will most likely read the detailed summaries instead. The characterizations of the female characters and the romance in the series are maddeningly bad.
So glad you had some good books to balance out Crown of Swords, really looking forward to more Fonda Lee, I will read anything she writes from now on and I'm almost done with Ruination and that was a lot better than I was expecting so hope you enjoy that too when you get to it. Crown of Swords isn't the start of "The Slog" book 1 is! Wheel of Time is the worst book series ever, I wish Bradon had rewritten the whole thing or at the very least edited it down and cut out the boring to a trilogy! I bailed half way through book 7 when the third character was raped, wasn't fun to read about and I was already bored so making me angry wasn't a great way to take it! Life is too short to waste on terrible literature, I've given up on the goal of reading Brandon's contribution, it's nearly 2 good books of content spread over 7, total waste of time and like you said "A good ending doesn't make a good book"! To anyone else I would say, just watch a synopsis video or read the wiki then read Brandon's books.
Thank you! Fonda Lee is a blessing to the genre, and I'm glad to hear you loved Ruination. I look forward to reading that book this year. Also, although I enjoyed some parts of Wheel of Time, I do agree that it's so bloated. If I can't persevere through book 8-10, I will read a detailed summary of the books and jump to book 11. xD
Here's what I read in March Mr Mercedes by Stephen king Love Pamela memoir by Pamela Anderson Troublemaker leah remini memoir Murder in the mews by Agatha Christie Heat 2 by Michael mann I kissed shara wheeler All Rhodes lead here by Mariana Zapata Reminders of him by colleen Hoover Never ever getting back together by sophie Gonzales Normal people by Sally Rooney Bad luck and trouble by lee child
Did you get the email about the ice by Ryan Cahill?! Where in the timeline does this fall?! It's not on goodreads yet. But new novella is out. I assume it's book 3.5
Hahaha I did! I'm not a fan of April Fools but that was a good one. The novella is not ready yet. It's just a prank, but the book should be read after book 3 even if chronologically the story takes place after The Fall. :)
Thank you so much, Nev! I read at least 2 hours per day. That's really the lowest. Depending on my schedule I usually read about 2-4 hours everyday. :)
@@PetrikLeo Wow, I’m lucky if I can get in one hour. I’ve just started a channel and gave you a shoutout at the end of the wheel of time vid. You’re definitely an inspiration!
Book 8 wot better than book 7 imo. In fact I think it's quite underated, book 7 only have Mat's moment that's great to read but the whole fight with sammael was so disappointed for a battle have been built up so much till this point. But book 8 have many great moment, escape ebor dar, using the bowl of the wind, battle with the seanchan.... I don't understand why many people hate book 8
I absolutely despised probably book 6-10 in wheel of time. I found Nynaeve to be infuriating as a character, as well as Egwene. Everything felt like an overly descriptive slog where the characters became extremely one dimensional. All characters are pretty flat. I found Mat to be the best character, and his evolution is top tier.
I agree 100% on your comment regarding Aes Sedai. I actually extend that to some of the non-Aes Sedai as well (like Faile, Berelain, Morgase, etc.) All of the females in this series (with a few exceptions like Min and Birgitte) all feel like they have the same 5 personality traits and the only difference is where they put their skill points among those five personality traits lol. Judgmental, hypocritical, brow-beating, manipulative, and stubborn. The male characters aren't without faults either obviously, but many of the women really blend together cause they are all... the same lol. They are all caricatures of how overbearing wives in TV sitcoms used to be written. I think the reason it frustrates me is that the series is great in so many ways, that having just such a bad characterization of an entire gender just seems like a dumb, easily avoidable problem for Robert Jordan lol. The series would have been so much better if that had been fixed.
I completely agree with you, Justin! Caricatures are exactly the word I'm looking for to describe the Aes Sedai. They just did not feel genuine as a character or person to me. Don't even get me started on how awful the romance is. The Wheel of Time is a great series with a lot of glaring flaws! And I feel these flaws could've been easily fixed with a better editor, especially now. Oh well, the wheel weaves as the wheel wills. xD
@@PetrikLeo Definitely! I will say though, as someone who pretty much agrees with you on virtually every issue you bring up, it's definitely worth it to finish the series. I think if you recognize the problem with the characters and just accept it, it becomes a little easier to ignore. I am a big "character reader" which made this series a little tough at the beginning when I could not care less about most of the characters (literally for probably the first 11 books, I would not have cared much if any of the main characters had died, which is crazy). But that gets partially corrected when Sanderson takes over, in my opinion. And there are awesome plot points throughout the series that help offset it some. Plus A Memory of Light is so good, it helps offset a ton of the more frustrating parts. Love the videos, keep it up!
Usually review requests, beautiful cover art, and social media. Honestly, I have way too many books to read now. My reading mood will decide which one i pick each month. :D
For every sequence with annoying women in WoT, the British have an expression that explains the feeling of annoyance and that is "I could slap a child""
Kurmaić. Pronounced Kurmeitsch. Or Kur-m-eye-tsch. Not Kur-mike. Ć is like ch in the word cheese, cz in czech, t in nature. I'm not Croatian but I'm Slavic so you can trust me on this. Or trust Google Translate. 😉
A video for top reads of the year (so far) four times a year would be awesome! March was a very productive month for you, Petrik (no surprise!). I am incredibly honored that The Way of Edan was part of it!
Thank you, Philip! I'll try to fit it in this month. And I'm glad The Way of Edan is included in my wrap up, too! :D
I’d love to see a Top 10 four times a year, but don’t want you to overwork yourself either. I’d definitely watch them if you do!
Thank you! And that's true. Making sure I don't burn out will be a priority! :)
I'm game for a quarterly top books video
Thank you so much, Jessica! I'll see whether I can fit it in this month or not! 😁
Happy to hear that March was such a success (aside from WoT, but we'll just pretend that didn't happen, lol). Your review of The Will of the Many got me soooo excited, I literally can't wait to dive in! And I totally agree with everything you said about The Way of Edan, I am so super eager to see what Philip has in store for us in the sequels!!
My favourite reads of the month were 3 non-fiction books by Caitlin Doughty, which are all about her experience working in the death industry. I never knew death could be so entertaining, those books are amazing hahah. And as for fiction, I found new favourites in A Quiet Vengeance by Tim Hardie, The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons (never been happier to have given a series a second chance, I am loving it this time around!) and a prequel novella called Pale Night, Red Field by Joseph John Lee!
Great wrap-up Petrik! 🥰
Thank you so much, Esmay! It was kinda expected of WoT to fail... I hope you'll love The Will of the Many as much as I did! And wow, quite surprised to hear you end up enjoying A Chorus of Dragons by Jenn Lyons more. That's really the beauty of a second chance and reading a book at the right time. We have to recognize that more! :)
I have started a new job in a new city, so this month has been the worst reading month I've ever had. Yesterday before going to sleep, I accidently found my Kindle which I hadn't seen for a month. Seeing it really hit me hard because of how less I miss it due to work and I am scared that I will stop reading altogether. I will try to make time for reading this month.
Argh, that sucks. But don't be scared. I think a new job in a new city just means you will need to take some time to adjust to a new schedule. I strongly believe once you're a reader, nothing can take you away from it. Even if you take a break from it for months of years, you will get back to it. :)
I can't wait to get to Untethered Sky! Fully expect to love it :)
A Prelude to Ashes is a super fun fast paced read! I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Hoping to read The Shadow of What Was Lost this month, but if I love the writing I'll be sure to add The Will of the Many to my TBR 👀
I truly hope you'll enjoy Islington's books. His books need more love on Booktube. 😂 I know you'll like Untethered Sky, though! 😁
If you make the videos, I'll watch them!
My March Wrap-Up:
- 4/5 - Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (a bit tropey/predictable, but I really liked it)
- 1/5 - Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (DNF a few pages in; poor writing style, poor premise, poor beginning scene)
- 4/5 - The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne (fantastic Action-Fantasy that I really liked, but with some repetition in plotlines)
- 2.5/5 - Babel by R.F. Kuang (It was okay if you don't mind lessons in word history and footnotes)
- 2/5 - Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan (It was okay, but very anti-climactic plotlines and some questionable treatment of female characters)
- 5/5 - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (Awesome characters and themes in this second installment of the Gunslinger series - some minor gratuitous parts)
- 4/5 - The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson (I really liked it, but some plotlines/promises closed in an unsatisfying way - I expected more with the Malwish and the leader of the Set)
- 5/5 - The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang (Probably the best book I'll read this year. Excellent characters and character work, well-developed themes, and a beautiful mountain setting. The climax is near the middle, so expect a conclusion longer than usual.)
Overall, a lot of highs and lows for me this month. The Sword of Kaigen was a standout! If this book is in your TBR, then give it a try. Thanks for recommending this one, Petrik!
Man. I can't disagree more about promise of blood. I'm about a third of the way through the autumn republic and this series keeps getting better. I urge you to continue on
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@@seanhalpin87 I'm glad you enjoyed it, and that it gets better, but it will be a long while before I read anything else by McClellan. There are so many other writers and books I haven't read yet.
What I mean by anti-climactic: there were 6 different instances in Promise of Blood (that I noticed) where the 3 protagonists just let their (sometimes captive) baddies get away. All that hunting/fighting to capture them? Pointless. And these baddies aren't escaping with magic, cunning and guile, I mean they just get up and walk away, often with the protagonist watching them leave.
I didn't notice how bad this was at first, but when I started writing my plot review on Goodreads, and really thinking about the plotlines, it became shockingly clear how unsatisfied I was with this overused escape routine.
That is an incredible wrap up! Too bad Babel and Promies of Blood did not click with you. But I'm glad you loved The Sword of Kaigen that much. I consider that book a masterpiece! :D
Lol I told you man book 7 was terrible! I couldn't finish book 8 that's where I quit. I hope you can power through it, but I couldn't lol. Also in regard to your question instead of doing multiple top ten books of the year so far videos I think it might be better to do top 10 or top 5 of the books released in(or I read in) the last three months. That way the top ten of the year list would still feel rly special and you wouldn't just be talking about the same books over and over. Let's say you read the top 7 of the year in the January then all the videos would just be you listing off the same books lol. Regardless whatever you decide to do I'm sure id love the videos. You have a great way of talking about books and getting people excited for them without spoiling anything. It really is impressive and why you're my favorite booktuber.
I will do my best to persevere through The Wheel of Time hahaha. And hey, that's actually a good idea! So it's like the best Top 5 books I read in January until March. And then the 2nd video In July will be the usual top 10 books of the year so far. Great suggestion! I'll think about this! :D
I'm currently reading Sakamoto Days too, just finished v6, i really enjoy this manga, it's just a lot of fun. I've also just started Berserk Deluxe 13, shame it maybe a long time before we get another volume of this edition...if at all! I also have Dai Dark 5 and Zom 100 on my TBR pile for next. Always fun to see what manga you are also reading as well as novels/novellas
Sakamoto Days is soooo good! Have fun with it. I wish there are more volumes available. I just caught up to Jujutsu Kaisen latest chapters. I can't wait to see this all animated. Also, I'm envious of you. I need to get myself a copy of Berserk Deluxe 13 ASAP! :D
I definately want to hear about your favourites of the year so far 3 or 4 times a year. 😊 It will give me time to put some of the books on my tbr too. 😄 And of course the pick them up too.
Thank you so much, Kari! I think I'll post the video next Monday! :)
I'm glad you had such a good month of reading (besides the Robert Jordan book)! I also had a good month of reading.
Woohoo! I'm happy for both of us! :D
Good luck with the remainder of the WoT slog, They all suffer from the same pacing issues and are overstuffed. However, they are a bit shorter in length. I will say that Winter's Heart is a small bright spot. I still consider book 11 (Knife of Dreams) middling, but at least it concludes plot threads that went on for several books. I'm finally up to the Sanderson written ones and I may get to The Gathering Storm in April. I'm not sure I'm in the mood for another WoT book this month and may push it out to May. My goal is still to finish the series this year.
My favorite book/biggest surprise in March was A Shadow in Summer. I gave it 4.5/5, but it felt fresh and original, even though it was published in 2006. Definitely continuing the next book the series this month.
Thank you very much, Andrew! I'll do my best to persevere through the rest of Wheel of Time, especially the WoT slog. Good luck to you, too! Also, if you liked A Shadow in Summer already, I think the rest of the series will amaze you. The Long Price Quartet is a criminally underrated fantasy series. :)
I started the Red Rising saga last month for the first time. Wow!
Awesome! It's such a great series. 😄
Hello 👋 great wrap up video!!🎥📖
Thank you so much! 😄
i also don't like songs in books, but i like it in red rising, i think it's really harrowing in that series and adds to the tone of the book... also i love your t-shirt, subtle anime merch is my favourite :)
Understandable! I love the songs in Red Rising, too. Probably because I've heard the official song and melody on UA-cam. :D
Y'know, it might be best if you read a summary of the Wheel of Time 8-10 instead of the actual books. Or just Rand's, Perrin's, Aviendha's and Elayne's chapters of 8, Rand, Mat(skip the middle chapters of Mat's) and Min's chapters of 9 and a summary of 10 plus the epilogue. That'd make things a helluva lot easier. Don't send yourself into a reading slump by trying to slog through stuff you obviously dislike. You won't be missing much by not reading most of 8-10, that I can say with certainty. The series picks up with 11 and of course Sando's work is top notch as always.
If it reaches a point where I really can't do it anymore, I think I will actually read detailed summaries of book 8-10 instead of reading them. This was torturous already. I definitely will not send myself to a reading slump because of Wheel of Time!
@@PetrikLeo BTW how are you liking the Frugal Wizard? I felt that it wasn't as good as Tress but is a solid book overall. The MC in particular is very compelling. Though the book would've benefited from being longer and slowing down the second half to have more focus on the side characters, IMO.
@@historymax5479 I just finished Frugal Wizard yesterday, and I guess... I liked it? But definitely not a favorite of mine. One of Sanderson's weakest book, imo, for the reasons you mentioned. I liked the 2nd half much more but the supporting characters are so underdeveloped.
you should do the best of each month!!😆
Hahaha! I do that already in my monthly wrap up! xD
In March I managed to read 8 books, but only one of them can be called SFF😅 Hopefully April is a better month for fantasy! I plan to read The Justice of Kings! (your review of it convinced me that it'll be perfect for me! )🤞
Sometimes we need a break from reading fantasy books, too! I hope you'll love The Justice of Kings! 😊
Great month thank you Petrik! I'm also rereading Red Rising!
Thank you so much, Dino! Enjoy your reread of Red Rising Saga!
@@PetrikLeo Thanks Petrik!
I think quarterly favorites would be good. I'm excited for Untethered Sky! I think I'll need to check out The Will of the Many. I have the Licanious Trilogy, but haven't read it yet. My favorite book this month and one of my favorites of the year so far is Godkiller. It honestly has taken me a while to read any of the books in the Wheel of Time and i've only read 2 of them, but had a easier time with the second one, since I moved to audio. I probably will listen to the audiobooks for the rest of the series.
I heard great things about Godkiller! I have to give that one a try someday. The cover art looks so beautiful, too. I hope you'll love Untethered Sky and The Will of the Many! James Islington's books are all amazing, imo! :)
Pls do a Top 10 Year to date for every QUARTER! It's always informative, helpful and entertaining!
Thank you! I'll try to do one this month. Either top 10 or top 5! :D
I’ve got the whole mother of learning arc, just need to get to it!!
I'm starting arc 2 today!! 😄
Nice video. I only got to read 5 books for the month of March and the best was actually a horror novel under 200 pages What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher.
Thank you, Cynthia! I need to read some books by Kingfisher. Heard many great things! 😁
I just finished my reread of golden son last night. And my God, that final chapter, and how it sets up morning star is AMAZINGLY fucked up. I forgot details, but morning star is so brutal at the start, the table scene man...really really brutal
Yeah that ending in Golden Son... So damn brutal. I remember picking Morning Star immediately after I closed the last page on my first read! Looking forward to rereading Morning Star this month! :)
Oh yes you definitely should do more videos on your top books of the year I'm very curious on your picks I also have some books on my 2023 list
Thank you so much, Angela! I'll try to fit it into my schedule this month! :)
If not every 3 months, then give us your top 10 every 4 months...im here for it.
Thank you for the suggestion! I'll definitely think about it! :)
Just finished listening to the will of the many, absolutely loved it. Your recommendations almost bever miss
Thank you so much! That makes my day. The Will of the Many is masterful! 😁
Brace for the next 3 books of WoT. It is going to be tough. But they all have great endings, and then you'll get to the end of the series, and that is straight fire. Wish you all the patience on this journey!
Thank you so much, Ilia! I'll do my best to persevere through this! :)
Hopefully you’ll find Path of Daggers to be much more engaging than A Crown of Swords like I did!! I also hated the Egwene and Aes Sedai stuff in Crown of Swords, and I think there was much less of that in bk 8. My Wheel of Time slog was limited to books 7 and 10, so it’s definitely not unanimous that bks 8-9 are also part of the slog, since at least I had a good time with those. So there might be hope yet!
You have me so pumped for the Will of the Many! Great wrap up, brother!
Thank you so much, brother! I truly hope I'll find Path of Daggers better. A Crown of Swords was a huge mixed bag for me. The bloody Aes Sedai was maddening and boring at the same time. Ridiculous. xD
"there are so many Aes Sedai and they all have the same characterization. They all hate men" lmfao too true. Bro I skipped and my life was so much better. Nothing happens in those books 🤣
Great month for you Petrik! I'll be picking up Morning Star this month for sure and hopefully The Will of the Many as well, it sounds incredible.
Thank you, Kyle! I hope you'll love The Will of the Many. We seem to have the opposite reaction to books lately so you might just end up hating it a lot. And yeah, these Aes Sedai... they're driving me mad! xD
Another great video, Petrik. Your videos have helped rekindle my love for fantasy, get back to reviewing and also broaden my reading. So thank you. :)
Thank you very much, Gary! Happy to hear my videos helping you on your reading journey!! :D
I'm not committed to reading The Wheel of Time series, but after a book like #7, I think I'd want to skip to 10 or 11. I doubt I'd miss anything.
I'm thinking of doing this if I can't persevere through book 8-10. xD
I had a great March. I read The Tyranny of Faith, The Wisdom of Crowds and Howling Dark, all of which were GREAT. The Tyranny of Faith was the best of the group.
Also listened to the audio book of Constance Wu's book Making a Scene. She reads it herself and her delivery is fantastic.
That sounds like an incredible reading month. I loved both Tyranny of Faith and The Wisdom of Crowds. I haven't read Howling Dark yet, but Sun Eater is on the list this year! :)
Lot of great books coming out this year there's a couple our read when they come out the rest will be put to the back burner in the TBR list keep up the great work
Thank you so much! Good luck with your TBR, too!
Woah! Such an awesome month! I need to get to so many of these, But Way of Edan and Will of the Many are high priorities!
Thank you, Thiago! March was a blast. I hope you'll love Way of Edan and The Will of the Many! :D
I've been going through a reading slump these past two months. I could only read manga and webnovels. I started over 5 books (4 novellas + 1 non fiction) but could hardly reach halfway before putting them down 😒I hope I ll be able to pick up the pace this month. On a positive note, I made progress with SpyxFamily and Bungo Stray Dogs.
Argh that sucks!! I hope you will get over your reading slump soon. I love Spy x Family and I enjoyed Bunge Stray Dogs, though. Glad you liked them both!
Currently reading The Shadow of What was Lost and really enjoying it so far! I am seriously getting super excited for The Will of the Many from all that you've said about it - it sounds amazing. I actually started reading Vagabond for the first time last month! It's amazing - I can't believe I haven't picked up this manga series til now. I'm only a recent subscriber but really love your videos and the way you talk about books :)
Aww thank you so much! I hope you'll find plenty of great recommendations from my channel. I love love The Licanius trilogy and The Will of the Many. Fingers crossed you will, too! And I am happy you're reading Vagabond! :D
Love your wrap up. I also read what I think will be my favorite book of the year in March . It is "Speaking Bones" by Ken Liu and it got me into book hangover. Not even rereading a favorite, "Black Sun" could get me out of that feeling. Because of my mood I don't think I appreciated enough "Down" by Octavia E. Butler, but I'll continue with "Lilith's Brood" for sure. My disappointment was with one of my most anticipated short story for the year (I even preordered a quite expensive physical copy) "The Lies of the Ajungo". But now I have such a great time with the "Rook and Rose" books and I hope April will be a great reading month.
Thank you so much!! Haha, I love that Speaking Bones was so good that it put you in a book hangover. Always great when that happens. Even if it makes choosing the next book harder. 😂
Love the video! I can't wait to read 'The Will of The Many', I loved Islington's Licanious Trilogy!
Thank you so much! The Will of the Many is AMAZING. :D
You had such a great reading month! I finished the Licanius trilogy in March and it was a great ending and it's got me hyped for his next release (I studied Latin in school so the fantasy world is going to be right up my street!).
Thank you so much, Kathleen! Glad you loved Licanius trilogy! Some Latin words are used in The Will of the Many, your lesson will come to fruition! :D
Fantastic! I’m excited to finish the Greenbone saga, and be able to read the novella when it comes out :) Maybe I’ll try Red Rising later this year - and I preordered the Islington book!
Nice! How awesome is The Green Bone Saga!? I hope you'll love Red Rising series, too!
Told you, Crown of Swords is the start of the slog. You haven’t seen anything yet, just wait till you get to Winters Heart and Crossroads of Twilight. I recommend picking them up and skimming them straight through without reading anything in between because otherwise it would be very hard to pick up the series again. Those 2 are just so atrocious.
Yeah... The book was really annoying. There were some great parts but they're so bogged down by insanely repetitive and mediocre POV chapters. I heard the worst things about book 9 and 10. I'm scared to find out. xD
@@PetrikLeo I will say this… KoD, TGS and aMoL are worth it, although my hatred for Egwene went to extreme levels in Brandon’s books (not Brandon’s fault, just the character arc. I just really hate Egwene and Elayne).
We seem to have the same likes and dislikes when it comes to WoT, so I just wanted to give you a warning and some hope for the next book. I just finished Path of Daggers last week, and the first part of the book is definitely a slog. A lot of the female characters pov. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The last half of the book is mostly about Rand, and I flew through it. It actually made me want to start the next book right away, but I'm trying to pace myself so I don't get burned out on the series. Good luck when you get to it!
Thank you so much, Rich!! Okay, that is actually reassuring. Once I got over this saltiness, I will start Path of Dagger. Hearing that Rand covers the second half of Path of Daggers sounds really good to me! :)
The WoT suffers a similar issue as Dune by lowering bars for hyped-up groups. Aes Sedai who governed and directed entire kingdoms for over 2,000 years suddenly behave as if they are clueless high school girls. Instead of creating overwhelmingly deceitful and cunning villains, RJ resorted to lowering the bars by "let's make AS stupid". Aes Sedai concept was so interesting in beginning just fizzled...
I just started book 3 of WoT, and even though this series has been great so far, I've also heard that it's pretty dated in some aspects. I liked book 2 a lot, but I noticed that Jordan started writing all the female characters to just fall in love with Rand, which was incredibly cringe to me. Hearing from you that it seems to get even worse by book 7 is honestly disheartening. The romance scenes in these books are honestly difficult for me to read because I think they're terrible lol. 😅
Hopefully I like books 3-6! I've heard great things about those books.
Do not expect great things in the romance department. They are some of the worst I've ever read. Characters fall in and out of love with no feelings attached whatsoever, it's crazy. Great Hunt was actually my favorite until I read book 5 and 6. Book 7 was really mixed baggage, though! xD
Many will agree with you that A Crown of Swords starts the slog. Frankly, I think Lord of Chaos is where it starts. Other than Dumai's Well battle, the series just drags. It felt like "how many more books can I milk to increase more sales?"
I loved Lord of Chaos, but yeah, Tor Books went on to milk the books for at least six more... xD
@@PetrikLeo If you felt that ACoS is a slog, I am not sure if you can endure the next few books in the series. Sanderson's style in Cosmere is pretty slow-paced as well. He just adds more actions but the overall story flow is slow like RJ. 🤣
For me the low point of the Wheel of Time series were books 8-11
I shall do my best to persevere through them. Slowly. xD
Crown of Swords made me stop reading WoT again. My review: "Slow and unremarkable. If you ask me next week what happened in this book, I might not remember." And I did not remember anything after a few weeks. LOL
I started The Path of Daggers but I dropped at the first chapter. I just couldn't stand it anymore.
I still want to finish this series some day, but Jordan's writing really isn't for me, even if I find the world he created amazing.
Jordan's writing is so hard to stomach sometimes. There are some moments of true greatness, but also as I said, bogged down by repetitive and pointless characters. :/
The only way Sun Eater has a chance of topping Red Rising for you is if you prefer slow and meandering stories to fast-paced and exciting stories. 😅
I actually tend to love slow paced stories more than a fast paced one. In the end, it all depends on execution! 😁
@PetrikLeo I will be surprised if you like it more. Red Rising is just so much cooler and more fun IMO. :)
@@Coleton2573 we'll see! I know it will be hard to top Red Rising Saga for me! 😃
I’m a bit curious Patrick, have you read any Chinese web novels? If you did, do you have any favorites to recommend? You’re the only booktuber I know that read works from multiple languages or from different cultures, including my culture (which is Chinese) So I’m a bit curious to know you thoughts when hearing you talk about Mother of Learning😊
Not yet, Julia! I do have interests in it though. Lord of Mysteries is the one I really want to try someday! 😄
@@PetrikLeo oh I’ve heard of Lord of Mysteries! It is a popular one! Though I gave it up because of its Cthulhu element 😂 Anyway looking forward to your thoughts on this one!
Please read the greatest webnovel: The Wandering Inn. It is the best ongoing fantasy series i know of.
It is already on my TBR after I'm done with Mother of Learning and Worm! :)
You definitely put The Will of the Many higher on my list. I loved the Licaneous Trilogy so I was already interested. Your review and the book description has elevated it for me. I will likely read it close to release. As for WoT honestly, it was probably my most disappointing fantasy read. I feel like you can probably skip the slog and not miss much. Almost nothing of importance to the rest of the story happens that I remember. The last Jordan and then the Sanderson books improve but the whole series just felt bloated to me.I agree with your take on the Aes Sendai. The constant bickering and “men are dumb so they need to be guided by us” got old. I can understand it at the start but shouldn’t they grow up at some point 😣
I absolutely loved The Will of the Many and the Licanius trilogy by James Islington. I think you'll love The Will of the Many, too!! As for The Wheel of Time, yeah this is a series with a LOT of issues. I will try my best to persevere through the slog portion of the series, but if I can't stand it, I will most likely read the detailed summaries instead. The characterizations of the female characters and the romance in the series are maddeningly bad.
So glad you had some good books to balance out Crown of Swords, really looking forward to more Fonda Lee, I will read anything she writes from now on and I'm almost done with Ruination and that was a lot better than I was expecting so hope you enjoy that too when you get to it.
Crown of Swords isn't the start of "The Slog" book 1 is! Wheel of Time is the worst book series ever, I wish Bradon had rewritten the whole thing or at the very least edited it down and cut out the boring to a trilogy! I bailed half way through book 7 when the third character was raped, wasn't fun to read about and I was already bored so making me angry wasn't a great way to take it! Life is too short to waste on terrible literature, I've given up on the goal of reading Brandon's contribution, it's nearly 2 good books of content spread over 7, total waste of time and like you said "A good ending doesn't make a good book"! To anyone else I would say, just watch a synopsis video or read the wiki then read Brandon's books.
Thank you! Fonda Lee is a blessing to the genre, and I'm glad to hear you loved Ruination. I look forward to reading that book this year. Also, although I enjoyed some parts of Wheel of Time, I do agree that it's so bloated. If I can't persevere through book 8-10, I will read a detailed summary of the books and jump to book 11. xD
Have you had the chance to check out the akame ga kill manga? If not you should deff give it a try. 10/10 recommend
Read and finished it already a few years ago! I enjoyed the manga so much more than the anime.
Here's what I read in March
Mr Mercedes by Stephen king
Love Pamela memoir by Pamela Anderson
Troublemaker leah remini memoir
Murder in the mews by Agatha Christie
Heat 2 by Michael mann
I kissed shara wheeler
All Rhodes lead here by Mariana Zapata
Reminders of him by colleen Hoover
Never ever getting back together by sophie Gonzales
Normal people by Sally Rooney
Bad luck and trouble by lee child
Well done on the incredible reading month! :D
Totally agree with you about the Aes Sedai. They were awful
They're so awful. I would destroy them if I were the Dragon Reborn... xD
@@PetrikLeo same here! He was shockingly tolerant of their continuous hate and negativity!
Did you get the email about the ice by Ryan Cahill?! Where in the timeline does this fall?! It's not on goodreads yet. But new novella is out. I assume it's book 3.5
Hahaha I did! I'm not a fan of April Fools but that was a good one. The novella is not ready yet. It's just a prank, but the book should be read after book 3 even if chronologically the story takes place after The Fall. :)
@@PetrikLeo oh God dammit, I didn't even notice the date on the email. Son of a bitch lmao
4 videos are better than 2 😊
Thank you! :D
Petrik, amazing month. How many hours would you say you read on average per day?
Thank you so much, Nev! I read at least 2 hours per day. That's really the lowest. Depending on my schedule I usually read about 2-4 hours everyday. :)
@@PetrikLeo Wow, I’m lucky if I can get in one hour. I’ve just started a channel and gave you a shoutout at the end of the wheel of time vid. You’re definitely an inspiration!
Book 8 wot better than book 7 imo. In fact I think it's quite underated, book 7 only have Mat's moment that's great to read but the whole fight with sammael was so disappointed for a battle have been built up so much till this point. But book 8 have many great moment, escape ebor dar, using the bowl of the wind, battle with the seanchan.... I don't understand why many people hate book 8
Here's hoping I'll love book 8 more. My opinion sometimes become an outlier compared to the majority of the fans of WoT! :)
@@PetrikLeo I can't wait to see your reaction with Rand's moment in book 8. I'm currently at book 13 and I literally can't put it down!
I absolutely despised probably book 6-10 in wheel of time. I found Nynaeve to be infuriating as a character, as well as Egwene. Everything felt like an overly descriptive slog where the characters became extremely one dimensional. All characters are pretty flat. I found Mat to be the best character, and his evolution is top tier.
So far, I completely agree with you. I'd put Rand and Mat at the top spot for the best characters in the series right now. :)
I agree 100% on your comment regarding Aes Sedai. I actually extend that to some of the non-Aes Sedai as well (like Faile, Berelain, Morgase, etc.) All of the females in this series (with a few exceptions like Min and Birgitte) all feel like they have the same 5 personality traits and the only difference is where they put their skill points among those five personality traits lol. Judgmental, hypocritical, brow-beating, manipulative, and stubborn. The male characters aren't without faults either obviously, but many of the women really blend together cause they are all... the same lol. They are all caricatures of how overbearing wives in TV sitcoms used to be written. I think the reason it frustrates me is that the series is great in so many ways, that having just such a bad characterization of an entire gender just seems like a dumb, easily avoidable problem for Robert Jordan lol. The series would have been so much better if that had been fixed.
I completely agree with you, Justin! Caricatures are exactly the word I'm looking for to describe the Aes Sedai. They just did not feel genuine as a character or person to me. Don't even get me started on how awful the romance is. The Wheel of Time is a great series with a lot of glaring flaws! And I feel these flaws could've been easily fixed with a better editor, especially now. Oh well, the wheel weaves as the wheel wills. xD
@@PetrikLeo Definitely! I will say though, as someone who pretty much agrees with you on virtually every issue you bring up, it's definitely worth it to finish the series. I think if you recognize the problem with the characters and just accept it, it becomes a little easier to ignore. I am a big "character reader" which made this series a little tough at the beginning when I could not care less about most of the characters (literally for probably the first 11 books, I would not have cared much if any of the main characters had died, which is crazy). But that gets partially corrected when Sanderson takes over, in my opinion. And there are awesome plot points throughout the series that help offset it some. Plus A Memory of Light is so good, it helps offset a ton of the more frustrating parts. Love the videos, keep it up!
@@justinkirkland140 thank you, Justin! I'm screenshoting your comment as an encouragement for my perseverance. 😂
How do you find the next book to read?
Usually review requests, beautiful cover art, and social media. Honestly, I have way too many books to read now. My reading mood will decide which one i pick each month. :D
@@PetrikLeo Nice! Same with me.
I think I am the only person on earth that really disliked the bone shard emperor
I don't think so! I know some people are disappointed with it, and I can understand why! :)
For every sequence with annoying women in WoT, the British have an expression that explains the feeling of annoyance and that is "I could slap a child""
Hahahaha! xD
Kurmaić. Pronounced Kurmeitsch. Or Kur-m-eye-tsch. Not Kur-mike. Ć is like ch in the word cheese, cz in czech, t in nature. I'm not Croatian but I'm Slavic so you can trust me on this. Or trust Google Translate. 😉
Dammit!! I will get it right on my next attempt. Thank you again! xD