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  Аноним25 января 2019 г.

  The Way of Artisans

  I'll start with the best part of the whole book. Sanderson has a light, flowing, image-fuelling language, not overly heavy, not too simple - the perfect norm, especially for an adventure book. Too bad, this is considered an epic.
  Speaking of epic, I suspect the author got the meaning of this word wrong. Hearing the word "epic", one expect a picture of great scale; a detailed, thoroughly thought-out world, the basis of which is mostly explained to the readers; deep believable characters, which you can relate to; their visible evolution or fall; thrilling and meaningful action, which changes the fates of the world. Here - for the most part - we have none.
  Sure, we got a bit of action at the start and the whole thing sounded promising, but later those tiny bits of action became extinguishingly rare, mostly crowded at the end.
  Sure, we have an "original" world, but the base beneath it is poorly explained and the explanation is neither solid no sound. If you're going for an epic, be a dear and imagine a models for your world - political one, economical one etc, so the whole structure would be believable, not just slap things together because it looks cool and new, no.
  "Epic" doesn't mean black and white characters, ham-fisted morale lessons and (speaking of ham-fisted) plot hints shoved down the reader's throat with the intensity of a mother bird feeding her children food she half-devoured for them and the subtlety of being hit on the head with a shovel. "Epic" (I bet!) doesn't mean "the dialogues and thoughts of epic lengths", considering this walls of text are shallow-ish at their best and awfully shallow at their worst and more often than not lead nowhere, repeating the same things over and over and over and over as if determined to bore the reader to death.
  Author's fondness of false twists is not helping the pace either. Where the reader most commonly expect a thrilling twist, the author... most commonly just exclude it, not bothering to write a less-expected thrilling twist instead and not changing the tone. This could be interesting, if used wisely and in a shorter novel or a short story, but in an "epic" the pace suffers greatly.
  Summing up all said above, Sanderson is no way an awfully bad writer, he seems like a decent enough creator of shorter adventure novels, an artisan, who knows his work, but jumped above his head. It is important to go out of your comfort zone, doing things you're not very skilled at, but why should this attempts be published before you become good enough?..

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