Tiny Navajo Reads: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for another book review! This time we’re diving into another one of Brandon Sanderson’s Secret Project books, this one is probably my favourite of them all. Granted, I’ve only read 2 of them, but I’m working on it. And he’s come out with another one…does this man ever stop writing?! Granted, I’m not complaining, I love his writing, I’m just wondering for curiosity’s sake whether he can physically stop writing or not…

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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I am a Brando Sando fan, his writing and his works have the ability to take me away from a world that can, and does, suck and give just a little bit of hope back into the world. And this book specifically seemed to do that for me.

I will say that while I am a prolific reader, there are books that will just reach out and wring emotion from my heart! And the ending of this book did that for me, I was actually crying at the end of this story and my husband was a little worried for me. It’s rare for him to see me cry at a book. Not that rare for me to cry, I am a big cry baby, but when a book can set off the waterworks, that’s impressive. There was just something about Yumi and Painter that pulled at my heart. There are liars revealed before the start of the story that drastically affect the story. There is is an isekai-ed priestess stuck in a time-loop in her world and stuck trying to figure out this new world during the…night? day? Painter’s world is weird. Always dark and neon but lovely in the fact that it’s always dark and neon. And all throughout this, you have two of the most different characters in the world trying to figure out how to work together and get their lives back under control and within their grasp again. And BOTH think they know the best way to interact with each other’s worlds, the whole “you’ve been here too long, let me show you how it’s done,” when it comes to learning. You just want to kind of take each by the shoulder and shake some sense into them, but you know that both are also a little bit right about how to interact with their new worlds.

It’s only when they start to figure out that their world, their lives, may intersect in more ways than one that they start to figure out what happened to them and how to fix it, and possibly fix their worlds as well. This book…this book had me in a vise grip and refused to let go. And I mean that truly, when I finished, I literally didn’t let go of this book for a few minutes, just bawling my eyes out. Richard was CONCERNED to say the least. But when I tried to explain this book, he kind of got it, or at least kind of understood why I was gripping a book like it was my lifeline while sitting on the couch. And Yes, I understand that I sound dramatic right now, but that’s how it felt. What books take you by the heartstrings and don’t let go until you’re weeping? Or any other strong emotion?

Tiny Navajo Listens: Magic for Liars

Hello everyone! The winter seems to have fully showed up now, with below freezing temps for us. As with my philosophy, or at least preference, for times like this is if the weather is going to be this cold, then it should have the decency to snow properly! But nope, just a small dusting of dry snow that has now vanished. Eh, what can you do? Anyway, I got a new review for you today, so let’s get to it!

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey, narrated by Xe Sands

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gaily, narrated by Xe Sands

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I’ve had this audiobook sitting in my Chirp library for a while, it just waiting for me to finally make the decision to actually listen to it. I have enjoyed Sarah Gailey’s work in the past, so I figured this shouldn’t be that different, other than I had only listened to one other book of their’s before, Upright Women Wanted, so I wasn’t fully sure what to expect, other than the blurb for this story obviously caught my attention, so I need to listen to it at some point.

It did take me a few tries to fully get into the story, but once I did, I fell and couldn’t fully get out of the story until the end. Which is a good sign to me about how much the story gripped my brain and wouldn’t let go. We start off with our main character, Ivy, a private investigator who has never wanted to be magic. Her relationships with her father and her sister could be better, but as they all grew up, they realized that it was probably for the best to not have have Ivy and Tabitha, her magically gifted sister, in the same room for more than a few hours at a time. But when a gruesome murder is committed at the school Tabitha works at, she is called in to investigate by the headmaster because she “‘come(s) highly recommended,’ Torres replied, dry as kindling. ‘And you know about us. You’ve got the right eye, to see the things that the investigators missed because they were too busy looking for obvious answers to see this for what it was. This was murder.'” So, Ivy sets off to her sister’s school at request of the headmaster to investigate a murder that has been written off as not.

As Ivy gets somewhat absorbed by the life she could have had, if she had magic, she learns that the world of magic is just as normal as the world without, but with add theatrics to how much people are willing to torture each other with the knowledge they have in high school. And as Ivy gets closer to figuring out what happened, she finds that while a lot is the same, there is a lo that she doesn’t understand, and maybe a lot that she refused to understand about her sister. And how much she may have missed having a sister.

I won’t say anything else, as the ending truly speaks for itself, and Ivy learns a lot about herself and the world of magic, as she gets a small inside look at a world Tabitha has inhabited since they were small. And she learns that maybe, just maybe, there are things better left to those who know what to do with them.

If there was a magic system you would like to experience, what system? What type of magic?

Tiny Navajo Reviews: Gemworld

Hello lovely people of the world! I am actually back with a series review today! Whoo!!! I’m holding to my promise thus far to start posting more consistently again.

The books that I’m touching on today are two novellas that are part of series called Gemworld. I had read the first novella back in about 2016-ish. I was starting to dip my toes into the world of short fiction and the cover just called to me. The second novella I read after rereading the first earlier this year cause I finally found it! It took me a few years (obviously), but I found it and had to reread the first cause that’s just the kind of person I am.

Now, without further ado, I give you the Gemworld series.

The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde

The Fire Opal Mechanism by Fran Wilde

The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde

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As stated above a novella about the end of a kingdom of jewels, both the actual jewel, and the ruling class called Jewels, and those who serve them, their Lapidaries. Between the Jewel and their Lapidary, they can harness and control the powers of jewels that allow for fantastic things to happen. But the youngest Jewel is not trained to work with the big fantastic jewels, nor is her Lapidary, so the day her family is killed is the day they have to figure out what the hell they are going to do to keep this power out of the hands of the invading force.

Definitely a book that is out there and could and should have more stories written for it, so I’m glad to know there is a second novella and there should be a third story coming out later this year I believe.

The Fire Opal Mechanism by Fran Wilde

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We skip forward in time, to where the Jewels and the those closest to them have fallen away to myth, as have the jewels of legend. But there is a new threat, knowledge and books being stolen and universities destroyed all to put out “books” that full of the knowledge stolen that all might possess and use it. But we all know what happens when books and knowledge is stolen for “the good of humanity.” It is replaced, it is altered, it is hidden and destroyed that humanity may be kept down under the current ruling class. But for a simple thief and a librarian, there is hope yet that they can at least stop any further destruction, if they don’t get stuck in time.

Overall, I would say that this is a good short fantasy series and I would highly recommend you look into it if you’re looking for quick reads. There is different type of magic system here I highly enjoyed, where it seems you need two people to work with it, one to channel and one to hear; and then in the second book you hear about how this all works still even those the jewels have disappeared and how knowledge is now going the same way. Death and destruction for the supposed good of the people. See how long that takes before they come for your own personal knowledge.

Tiny Navajo Reads: The Circle Opens Series

Hello hello again! It is that time of the semester, where I post when I can! And I have decided that that day is today! My brain is tired and I needed to do something that wasn’t my actual job related so here I am procrastinating like this. And I’m okay with that. I’m also going to endeavor to posting here more frequently again, but I’ve said that multiple times already so we’ll just have to see if it sticks this time.

Anyway, as the Fall semester is starting to ramp up with classes starting next week, I figured that I would give y’all another set of reviews for a book series I read back in January when I needed something quick and nostalgic to keep me going after I finished The Circle of Magic series earlier. This is all Tris, Daja, Briar, and Sandry and what happened to them after their first set of adventures.

Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce

Street Magic by Tamora Pierce

Magic Steps (The Circle Opens, #1) by Tamora Pierce

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*Originally published March 1, 2000*

We again focus on Sandry in this book, but in how she has grown and what is now expected of fully recognized and certified mages; as the discoverer of a new mage, she is also their teacher until an appropriate one is found for their type of magic. This is complicated further when Sandry and her Uncle, Duke Vedris receive news of a murderer on the loose stalking a particular merchant family. Sandry struggles not only with helping this case but teaching her new student, who isn’t that much younger than her.

Street Magic (The Circle Opens #2) by Tamora Pierce

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*Originally published April 1, 2001*

This is Briar’s book now, where he is traveling with Rosethorn, his mentor and teacher. While in the hot and desert climes he has found a young stone mage. Same as before, a new mage must be taught by those who found them till an appropriate teacher is found. Unfortunately for Briar, while an appropriate teacher is found, this teacher doesn’t teach or even do stone magic properly. Throughout all of this, a gang war is breaking out and those involved seek to steal the young mage away for their own works. Briar must determine whether he’s ready to confront his past in order to save his young charge.

Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce

Shatterglass by Tamora Pierce

Cold Fire (The Circle Opens, #3) by Tamora Pierce

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*Originally published April 1, 2002*

Daja and her mentor Frostpine are in the cold north for someone used to the humidity and the sea, not such a fun place to be. While here, Daja discovers two young mages in the household she and Frostpine are staying at, a cook mage and a wood mage. There are (again) no mages specific for their types of magic, but there is a famed chef and a well-renowned woodcarver who are willing to teach each twin their craft, as long as Daja takes on their mage work. She and Frostpine are also called upon to help find a serial arsonist that has stuck the city they are working in.

Shatterglass by Tamora Pierce

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*Originally published March 1, 2003*

The final book in the series focuses on Tris and her mentor, Niko Goldeyes, at what is basically a conference for magicians to just argue and snipe at each other, like any other type of professional conference in the world. While Niko is doing that, Tris gets pulled into teaching a student nearly as stubborn as her, and nearly twice her age, she finds that there are some things that can’t be taught. But she knows what this young man has been through to some degree and she does as she has always done; stand up for those who cannot, due to circumstance, stand up for themselves. And catch a killer along the way.

As with the previous series with these four students, now mages and teachers in their own right, I love how they all face their own challenges in their own way, but each works. How they teach, how they work with their own magic, how each situation is different yet the same. They all have to realize that being a fully realized mage has its own hardships that many their age don’t have to deal with quite yet.

These books also have a magic of their own that keep calling me back. Were I to be in this world of plant magic, fire magic, thread magic, and weather magic, I would probably not be in awe as it would be normal, but it would be interesting to see how much my world would actually change. That being said, I’m glad these worlds and stories are kept in books where I can revisit them as needed. What types of magic do you think you would always be in awe of, even if it were considered normal in our world? Comment below and let me know!

Happy Reading!

Tiny Navajo Reads: Circle of Magic series

Hey guys! I know that it has been a long while, but I’ve been working my way through some new changes at work. I know that I said I had found a new way to keep writing the reviews, but then things started to pick up at work and get extremely busy with the semester, so this blog had to be dropped off again a little bit. But with the summer semester coming, it should be a bit more calm. We shall see though, so here is a set of reviews to make up for how little reviews there have been for a while.

Sandry’s Book by Tamora Pierce

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*Published September 1999 by Point*

A lovely start to a new universe of magic and friendship and trust. If nothing else, this a book series that gives me a sense hope and love, all the different types of love. We focus on Sandry this book, and how she strives to not only learn about her new type of magic, but the magic of her friends.

Tris’s Book by Tamora Pierce

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*Published March 2000 by Point*

The second book in the series, we now focus on Tris, our weather witch who is scared of the power that she wields, but will do what is needed in order to protect her family, friends, and new home.

Daja’s Book by Tamora Pierce

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*Published March 2000 by Point*

The third book, this time about Daja and trying to figure out now only what it means to be accepted by your own people again, but what it means to be accepted no matter what. There’s also discussion about trying to get all four teens and their magic, if not separated, but at least contained within themselves again.

Briar’s Book by Tamora Pierce

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*Published March 2000 by Point*

The fourth and final book in this set of books, we finally focus on Briar, our gutter rat plant magician, and how much he has truly come to love his found family and Rosethorn, his mentor.

Sandry’s Book and Tris’s Book by Tamora Pierce. Books 1 and 2 in the Circle of Magic series.

Daja’s Book and Briar’s Book by Tamora Pierce. Books 3 and 4 in the Circle of Magic series.

This is probably one of the pinnacle fantasy series of my younger teenage years. I remember finding these in my high school library’s collection. It intrigued me and I started reading and I’m pretty sure I got through these in at least a week, if not two. And it was a wonderful story of love, found family, friendship, and learning to love all parts of yourself and not just those parts others approve of.

I did reread these books earlier this year, with my attention span having cracked, I can’t really stay focused on a book for too long. But these are just the right length in order to read them all the way through without losing where I am, and a lot of my memories of reading these the first time came back to me.

If you’re looking for a new to you fantasy series to read, I would recommend you look into the Circle of Magic series, or just about anything else by Tamora Pierce. She has so many and these are some of my favourites. What are some older favourites you have read recently, that you haven’t read in a while? Why did you choice to reread them? Comment below and let me know! Happy reading!

Tiny Navajo Reads: Of Silver and Shadow

Of Silver and Shadow by Jennifer Gruenke

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*Published February 16, 2021 by North Star Editions*

What can I say? Sometimes the book wins and sometimes it doesn’t…this time it didn’t.

Of Silver and Shadow by Jennifer Gruenke

Ren Kolins is a silver wielder—a dangerous thing to be in the kingdom of Erdis, where magic has been outlawed for a century. Ren is just trying to survive, sticking to a life of petty thievery, card games, and pit fighting to get by. But when a wealthy rebel leader discovers her secret, he offers her a fortune to join his revolution. The caveat: she won’t see a single coin until they overthrow the King.

Behind the castle walls, a brutal group of warriors known as the King’s Children is engaged in a competition: the first to find the rebel leader will be made King’s Fang, the right hand of the King of Erdis. And Adley Farre is hunting down the rebels one by one, torturing her way to Ren and the rebel leader, and the coveted King’s Fang title.

But time is running out for all of them, including the youngest Prince of Erdis, who finds himself pulled into the rebellion. Political tensions have reached a boiling point, and Ren and the rebels must take the throne before war breaks out.

Eh…that’s really all I can say about this book. It didn’t surprise me, it didn’t have anything really original to say. I have read a story like this what feels like a million times. This is basically Brandon Sanderson’s forte and he does it soooo much better.

The only really unique thing about this book is the magic system. I like the idea of silver being a thing to be manipulated and used in a multitude of ways. And there was creativity in the way that it was used…that’s about it. This also feels like the beginning of a series. I won’t be continuing this series, just so you know. I do believe there are better books out there that deal with this same premise.

Tiny Navajo Reads: Wings of Ebony

Wings of Ebony by J. Elle

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*Published January 26, 2021 by Denene Millner Books

This book has an interesting fantasy aspect and it parallels modern societal injustices and I found it a good way to talk about racism in a fantasy and contemporary way.

Wings of Ebony by J. Elle

“Make a way out of no way” is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. Rue’s taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked away to Ghizon—a hidden island of magic wielders.

Rue is the only half-god, half-human there, where leaders protect their magical powers at all costs and thrive on human suffering. Miserable and desperate to see her sister on the anniversary of their mother’s death, Rue breaks Ghizon’s sacred Do Not Leave Law and returns to Houston, only to discover that Black kids are being forced into crime and violence. And her sister, Tasha, is in danger of falling sway to the very forces that claimed their mother’s life.

Worse still, evidence mounts that the evil plaguing East Row is the same one that lurks in Ghizon—an evil that will stop at nothing until it has stolen everything from her and everyone she loves. Rue must embrace her true identity and wield the full magnitude of her ancestors’ power to save her neighborhood before the gods burn it to the ground.

I will say that this book was a good book. It just took me a while to actually get into the book and enjoy what I was reading. Once I did get into it, I enjoyed the story and where it was going. While the main bulk of the story took place over about a week’s worth of time, we do get some flashbacks to what happened to Rue a year ago, when her mother was shot and her absent father came to take her away to live in Ghizoni.

For the most part, we see that Rue doesn’t really know where she belongs anymore. She stands out in Ghizoni as being the only person of colour, other than her father. She doesn’t know the history of the country she has been brought into, she doesn’t know the culture or customs, and she is struggling to make sense of what she is doing. Yet when she hears that there is someone out there who is trying to destroy her neighborhood, to destroy East Row, to make it a world where no one can live their lives normally, then Rue decides to do what she can to not only save her sister, but to save all of her family that is East Row. But in order to do so, she has to let her hurt and anger out just a little bit in order to listen to what her father has to tell her about his heritage and what it means not only for her, but for ALL of East Row and Ghizoni.

What I enjoyed most about this book was the emphasis on relationships and connections. You are who you are based on all of your connections, both blood and chosen. You can choose who your family is, you can choose who your family isn’t, you can choose who to trust, and you can change your choices over time. Rue chooses at first to ignore her biological father, as he left her and her mother on their own. He never came, never showed up, never even let Rue know who he was until her mother died. But as Rue and her father try to talk throughout the book, you can see that he regrets not being with them, but Rue also acts like you’d expect a girl without a father to react when he suddenly shows up out of the blue; not wanting anything to do with him or what he has to say.

As we continue to follow Rue though, and how she has to interact with her father, we start to see how she starts to choose to listen to him, just a little. We see her choose to start to love him, we see Rue choose to turn to him, when she doesn’t know where else to go. Life is all about choices, and what we make of them. We can learn from our mistakes, and the mistakes of others and makes choices that can be better than we make before. It’s the choices we make in life that make us who we are, and we can always learn to make better choices. It’s never too late to start.

Tiny Navajo Reads: The Iron Wyrm Affair

The Iron Wyrm Affair (Bannon & Clare #1) by Lilith Saintcrow

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*Published August 7, 2021*

I’ve had this book just sitting around in my Kindle library for a while, and I decided to finally read it after reading my way through the Elemental Steampunk Chronicles series, and The Iron Wyrm Affair looked similar enough for me to be able to read it while in my steampunk mood. And I’m actually really glad I did!

The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow

Archibald Clare is a detective of truly uncanny abilities—a mentath, capable of feats of deduction and logic that border on the supernatural. He is also abruptly, uniquely, the only unregistered mentath left alive in Londoninium. Someone has murdered the others and, if not for the timely intervention of the Prime sorceress Emma Bannon, there would have been no one left to stop… whatever is coming.

Mentaths and sorcerers are dying—or worse, being seduced into betraying Queen and Country. Bannon and Clare must uncover treachery, conspiracy, and sorcery of the blackest hue. And in a Britannia where magic has turned the Industrial Revolution on its head, time is short.

The game is afoot…

I didn’t really realize what I was getting into once I started reading this, but once I realized what was going on, I really really enjoyed it! It was a magical, steampunkish version of Sherlock Holmes, only Holmes isn’t the main character, but a side character who supports our main character, a Prime sorceress who fights for Queen and Country. It’s also set in a different version of London, called Londoninium, which is fascinating! I also love that this world, the Queen is a reincarnation of the spirit of Britannia, which is the the spirit of Londoninium. But, onto the actual review of the story.

Going to be very honest, I don’t remember a whole lot about the story itself, I just remember enjoying the actual setting and characters. It seemed to be a somewhat normal plotline, there’s only one specific person left, the others have been hunted down, he is taken into custody for his safety and the safety of others. There’s a plot to overthrow the ruling government, our hero is one of the few to stand up for the establishment, and our heroes overcome in the end. Very standard story I would say, but what isn’t standard, and what makes this particular book stand out is the setting. This world of magic and steampunk, logic vs. illogical, a reincarnated spirit of Britannia that rules, three different types of magic, it’s all so fascinating! And the magic is interesting as well, there isn’t a whole lot of explanation of what it is exactly, or how it works, but it is used as a normal thing and that helps give some explanation of what is going on at the very least.

While this was a very good book and an interesting world, I don’t think I’ll be going back. I have many books to read and I’m starting my reading for the High School Sequoyah team, so there are going to be a fair amount of YA books showing up on my reviews, but I will still read fantasy and science fiction when I get the chance. I will say that I’m excited to start my reading and seeing what sorts of book start showing up for me and what will make the Sequoyah lists for the next few years. What do you plan on reading this year? What are you looking forward to with your reading?Comment below and let me know! I may, eventually, get around to it.

Tiny Navajo Reads: The Color of Magic

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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*Published January 29, 2013 (originally published November 24, 1983)*

This is my first official Terry Pratchett novel and I really enjoyed it! I do know that I need to keep reading in order to find his really good stuff, but for my first one and I believe his first published novel, it was good! I really liked the wizard, he was actually kind of hilarious!

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.

The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett’s maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins — with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.

On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There’s an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet…

Being very honest, while I did enjoy this book, I can see why a lot of people, Terry Pratchett himself, have stated that his later books are better. But for a first foray into his books, this was funny. I loved Rincewind, and how he just ends up kind of being dragged along with Twoflowers, the tourist who just wants to see the Discworld, and meet heroes and bandits, wizards, and just act like any other tourist in our world acts: awkward and not really paying attention to what the locals are saying. And there were a LOAD of one-liners that made me smile and giggle just a bit. I can see why Terry Pratchett’s words have lived on and continue to inspire many.

I will say that while it took me a while to read this book, it’s not because it was hard, or long, but because my brain has been refusing to focus on a book for very long this year. I’ll continue finding and reading Terry Pratchett books, I definitely want to know more about Death and his hilarity, and I haven’t even run into Vimes yet and it sounds like he’s a favourite among the masses. For now though, I’ll be content that I’ve dipped my toes in the world of Discworld and be excited to continue my exploration. What Terry Pratchett books have you read? What would you recommend to a new fan to read next? Comment and leave your book recommendations down below and why you think that book is the next one I should read!

Tiny Navajo Reads: Dawnshard

Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

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*Published November 10, 2020*

You guys!!! How does he do it?!?!? Seriously?! Brandon Sanderson not only has the time to write multiple books at a time, but work on these here volumes of The Stormlight Archive and then he just decides “Oh, here another novella for you all, have at it!” How does he do it!?

Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

From Brandon Sanderson—author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War—comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed characters their own chance to shine.

When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn’t fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea.

Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn’s pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani’s quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.

This book, like all the others in The Stormlight Archive, is amazing! Just let me put some fears to rest right now: you do NOT have to read it to enjoy Rhythm of War. You can go straight from Oathbringer to Rhythm of War and not really miss out anything. It just gives a few more lore bits that others will find fascinating to know.

Anyway, onto Dawnshard itself. I actually loved getting to know more about Rysn and about the Lopen. Rysn now owns her own trading ship (owns is an interesting concept in Thaylen trading merchant concepts, she actually explains it in the book) and so when her little larking, Chiri-Chiri, starts to look unwell and she can’t find answers in Thaylenah, she decides to take up Queen Navani’s request and sail to the island of Akinah, where larkins used to live in abundance. On her way there, her ship and its crew are plagued by “bad omens,” signs and ideas that seem to want to direct Rysn, the Lopen and the other Windrunners away from their expedition.

I loved that this book has shown that there is a lot of depth to characters that we may not always get to see. We see that Rysn and the Lopen, usually characters that only get a small insight in the larger books, have a whole lot more going on than what we see. We see why the Lopen cracks jokes the way he does all the time, to try and bring some light into his world, when he used to only have one arm, and to the worlds of others, to try and lift them up. We see that Rysn has not only far exceeded her babsk’s intentions, but his trade as well, we see just how proud he is of her.

It’s not only the two main characters, but their side characters as well, Huio, Cord, Chiri-Chiri, and so many others and the implications of what this means not only for them but for The Stormlight Archive in general as well. Brandon Sanderson has done what he has always done and that is bring light and growth to characters that need it. And not only did this light shine on Rysn and the Lopen, it opened up a spotlight to many other things in the Cosmere that may be coming to fruition.

Are you a Brandon Sanderson fan? Have you read any of his books before> You should comment below and let me know what you think of Dawnshard and Rhythm of War as well as any of his other books.