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11110111011 posted...

Muscles posted...

but man, Sanderson really likes to shove his magic systems down our throats.

This pretty much sums my take on Sanderson.

Same. It's one of the main reasons I steer clear of his books like the plague.

(The semi-related other major reason being that he trips my usual Pronoun Test for fantasy/sci-fi hard. If you're reading the back-cover blurb of a book and you've seen at least a dozen different made-up proper nouns, you're generally looking at a bad writer who has mistaken LOREBUILDING for "actual storytelling".)

It's kind of telling that the best writing he's ever done (IMO) is when he was finishing someone else's series and couldn't indulge in all of his own bad habits.