Review: Words of Radiance

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Another volume, another 1000+ pages. This one is even longer than the first. And I still don't see the point of the story. Yes, the story is elaborate, detailed and interesting, but what am I supposed to take with me after reading it? This new version of theology he's building? Besides, this fantastic world is becoming too detailed to hold in one's mind, apparently: contradictions are appearing like rain spren in pools on the road. How, say, a Plate is powered when all spheres in the world, safe for the largest ones, had gone dun during a Weeping?
I also had a misfortune to listen to the audio book, instead of reading the text. It's read by two narrators. Kate Reading is surprisingly good. This is the first time I was listening to her and I'm impressed. Michael Kramer, on the other hand, is quite another matter. He somehow manages to read every sentence as a question, with a raising intonation. His first chapter starts like this: "Breath? A man's breath was his life?" He sounds very surprised at a lot of things: "They went into the palace?" Granted, he does get better, after merely the first 500 pages, but it did spoiled the impression.
Anyway, I'm off to read the third volume.

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