Author: Brandon Sanderson

What a fun story. Very comical, but fun.

I didn’t want a fairy tale, but I wanted something adjacent. However, I also didn’t want it to be too childlike. I wanted something my fans would enjoy: a grown-up fairy tale, so to speak.

That’s exactly the vibe I felt when reading this story.

I probably shouldn’t have done what I did, which was start writing this book in secret. Telling nobody, even saving the files in a hidden place on the cloud where my team couldn’t see them. But I wanted something that was just for me and for my wife. Something I could share with her, and not worry about deadlines or expectations. I just wanted to write, free of business constraints or fan expectations. To see where the story took me, and build something like I did long ago, in the days before I had quite so many constraints. I kept it hidden for almost two years, shared only with Emily. But now I have given it to you as well.

Cool.

I don’t have much to critique regarding this book. It’s just a fun little story. Fairly cinematic, with a lot of solutions that work a bit too easy while disregarding a lot of details, as what you see in your typical Hollywood movies. But since it’s a story that has made it very clear that this is the way it intended to be since the very start, there’s not much to complain. It’s a book written just for fun anyway.

8/10.

Kind of like Project Hail Mary but focus more on the fun and casual part but less on being rigorous and making sense.

A fun little (well not too little but it I’d mentally) stop just as I reached the half way point of the awesome but dry Diaspora, allowing me to recharge and then picking up the journey once again.

There are still a lot left unexplained regarding the setting of the world tho. Why the fuck is there spores on moons and why would the spores be emitted to the planet? Why causes the “seething” i.e. the under-ocean airflow?

Though constantly criticized by r/bookscirclejerk (and often with merits), Brandon Sanderson is still a fantastic writer unironically. He made my Kindle and LingQ usage time surged in the past week. His books are pop-style. Like pop films and musics, they may not be very deep and good in the literary aspect, but they are fun and enjoyable.

The arts, by the way, are nice, but extremely unrealistic. They all have perfect clothes and perfect hair while being on a voyage sailing through tons of danger.