Way of Kings is incomparable. A shining achievement. Unfortunately each following book in the series gets worse, until the last one is just an overly long exposè on mental health problems.

[–] Strae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Holy shit yes. I thought Way of Kings was incredible, and thought I found my favorite book series. Then the next book was fine, and the third book was so insufferable I quit after 800 pages. Never even made it to book four, which I hear is even worse.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've enjoyed the books, but they really seem that they need an aggressive editor. Being long for the sake of being long just doesn't work.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize how harsh my review sounded until re-reading it just now. I enjoyed the books too. Because the first one was so amazing, the rest were still good even though I felt like they got progressively worse with each book. I was pretty frustrated by the last one, and I was ready for it to end long before it did, but it was still entertaining. The series is a big achievement, it just needs tighter editing like you said, and I didn't enjoy the mental health exposè. I don't read fantasy to get messages about real world problems, I read fantasy to escape from the real world. All that said, I still strongly recommend WoK to people, I just let them decide on their own if they want to read any of the sequels.