Daniel Darabos reviewed The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson (Secret Projects, #4)
Stormlight Archive if it was a sci-fi LitRPG
4 stars
I'm a Stormlight Archive fan. I read this before Wind & Truth and I think it was great this way. This way you don't know who the protagonist is, which just fuels your curiosity.
The book has the usual enjoyable ingredients. Cool action, cool characters, cool setting with cool mysteries. Heroics and drama abound. It's very isolated from the rest of the Cosmere and stands well on its own.
The LitRPG aspect is minimal, and kind of funny. In a usual LitRPG you watch as the character's stats go up. Well, not this time.
The book has a few pictures, which are nice. But even without those, I would get a very strong mental imagery from the text. It's just a very visual book for me. Almost monochromatic, the whole book is set at night and illuminated only by cinderhearts, storms, and explosions. There's a lot of action and it's …
I'm a Stormlight Archive fan. I read this before Wind & Truth and I think it was great this way. This way you don't know who the protagonist is, which just fuels your curiosity.
The book has the usual enjoyable ingredients. Cool action, cool characters, cool setting with cool mysteries. Heroics and drama abound. It's very isolated from the rest of the Cosmere and stands well on its own.
The LitRPG aspect is minimal, and kind of funny. In a usual LitRPG you watch as the character's stats go up. Well, not this time.
The book has a few pictures, which are nice. But even without those, I would get a very strong mental imagery from the text. It's just a very visual book for me. Almost monochromatic, the whole book is set at night and illuminated only by cinderhearts, storms, and explosions. There's a lot of action and it's all very unique due to a limitation of the protagonist. It would make such a cool movie!
