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Brandon Sanderson can build a world and create fantastic and (almost) believable magic systems. I doff my cap in the biggest way at his ability to plot an epic story in all its detail and reveal the excitement at perfect pace to keep us all turning the pages.

I felt a little disappointed as the book blurb said that this was set in a world where the dark lord won as apart from a few aesthetics I did not feel the world was a great deal different from many fantasy worlds where we join the story. It is an interesting world and not one where there is any time to get bored.

The story is great and the characters are fine and mostly believable but I cant help feeling they are a little flat. I think it is the language with which they are written. The language throughout the trilogy is actually kept very simple which makes it read like it is for a younger audience but the book as a whole does not feel like that. I am not one that likes over-description but I do like a degree of richness to bring atmosphere which I did not feel I got from this book, again, not that I got bored. There are so many elements to storytelling and so many decisions to make and so many different tastes - despite these comments I still went on to read the next two!