Review: Oathbringer

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Finally, reading the third book in the series, I see the relevance to the world around me. In Oathbringer I found a lot of metaphors, opinions, and satire on the current events. I didn't see this in the first two books, either because the events they talked about are too far in the past (how long do those monsters take to write?), or because it wasn't there before. That makes the book so much more enjoyable. But to find that enjoyment I had to make my way through 1200+ pages (which is even longer then the second book, which was longer than the first one), where the second to last 10% were a long-winded description of a single battle, and the last 10% - jumping from scene to scene, from character to character, in a not entirely successful attempt to tie off some dozen different storylines. At least I'mm all set to comfortable wait for 3-5 years for the next book. If the first one felt like a 1000-page introduction, the second as a beginning of a plot, this one was kind of a development of the conflict. Is the author sure he has enough time for all ten planned books?

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