BRANDON SANDERSON'S SECRET PROJECT #1 NON-SPOILER REVIEW ~ Tress of the Emerald Sea
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- BRANDON SANDERSON'S SECRET PROJECT #1 NON-SPOILER REVIEW ~ Tress of the Emerald Sea
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0:43 Cosmere
2:36 Plot
3:51 Tone, Tropes, and Pacing
10:48 World Building/World
14:44 Humor
15:15 Spotify/Speechify
17:15 Overall
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Time stamps:
0:43 Cosmere
2:36 Plot
3:51 Tone, Tropes, and Pacing
10:48 World Building/World
14:44 Humor
15:15 Spotify/Speechify
17:15 Overall
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"She likes cups, she likes her family and she likes a boy" What a great summation of Tress, I love that lol.
"With a jaw so straight, other men questioned if they were" this line had me dying
I haven’t read any Brandon Sanderson but apparently I need to his books sound amazing. I love it when you are whisked away to a whole new world.
Yes - they are, by and large, amazing. Some are merely “good,” but I haven’t read anything from him that is bad
His worlds are truly amazing!
I mean if you like depth to your stories... won't really find it with Brando, he doesn't really trust his viewers with vagueness or subtletly. But if you prefer cinematic level entertainment with simplistic prose, his writing will be right down your alley.
Pick up Mistborn - Final Empire. It's a decent start. It's also technically a "standalone" book even though it's part 1 of a trilogy. If you like that book you'll like Brandon Sanderson. IMO that book is a great start to the world of Sanderson.
What are you waiting for?!?!
I am blown away by the illustrations Howard Lyon did for this book. I cannot wait to get my physical copy. I have a quarter of the book left so I should finish today. I have loved this adventure and wish we had more of these type of stories in the cosmere. I know that Secret Project 3 is supposed to be a different voice or tone but also a story being told to us. I love that Sanderson is experimenting with this voice and way of storytelling.
I love it too! I think it’s making it so there’s almost at least one book of his for everyone 😄
Oh my gosh, within a chapter or two I was struck by how similar the tone/humor is to Princess Bride... I had no idea it was the inspo going into it, so he really nailed it!! This is only my 3rd Cosmere book (after Warbreaker and Elantris), and I can definitely tell there's things I'm missing, but I don't think this is going to be a tough one to come back to once I'm all caught up. He really just leaned into making a book *fun*. :)
There's a few things about Realmatics you might miss and a couple of connections to mistborn. Having read Elantris and Warbreaker probably helped you understand the villain's magic. But I wouldn't call anything pre-requisite reading
@@Haxerous Nope, definitely not! The story itself is totally understandable as is, for sure. I think it's just the occasionally offhand comment Hoid has made so far that makes me "hmm" if it's a reference to another book--but tbh, it may be me reading into things too much, because I'm expecting too many connections, lol. ;)
@@Haxerous ::TRESS SPOILERS::
It was so cool to see the sorceress using AonDor(Elantris), Awakening(Warbreaker) and Lightweaving(Stormlight) all at once.
I think it's the first time we've seen a single person using so many different Investitures, other than Hoid 🤔
I am reading this book right now and I just absolutely love it. What an amazing book and it's my first Sanderson book and I love the writing
Having already read this book, this is an EXCELLENT distillation of the book WITHOUT spoilers. Thank you.
I love Sanderson's humour, so this was right up my alley. I'm older and read The Princess Bride BEFORE seeing the movie (which is in my Top 5 favourite films of all-time). I also have raised three children, two of them daughters...and I love how Sanderson writes Tress.
I also love that this story was written to his wife. It has SO much love interweaved within the story.
I loved it. It will be a book that I will reread many times, even though we dont know how significant this story will be for the Cosmere, but it is just THAT good.
Lastly, I'm so happy that Brandon Sanderson is going up against Audible and how they are treating Indie Authors on the audiobook side. If anyone can, he's able to do this. I hope that it allows more competition within the market arena...so that fairer wages can be gotten, especially for Indie writers.
Thank you so much for this wonderful review. Truly appreciate your views and how you present them.
Again, thank you.
When is this book gonna be released??
For non backers, I believe in a couple months :)
Hi Graff! I loved seeing your thoughts, especially given your perspective as a husband and father. And yes, I’m all for the exploration of different audiobook apps! I hope audible starts making some changes.
@@ebnovels - About Audible...it really needs to be done...and I'm SO happy that it is Brandon Sanderson that is leading the way. He's such a special person...and because he's a teacher of future writers, he wants them to succeed in their passion, like he has. I do hope that other well known/successful authors stand behind him on this, too. Time will tell. Audible basically has a monopoly on the market...and will not change UNTIL there are forces that push them to deal equitably with authors, especially Indie Authors.
I subscribed or backed for e-books an audible, but I cannot find my code to redeem them. Can anyone tell me how?
The tone of this was so unique I thought it'd be best to try something different with it. So I'm reading it out to my siblings . It's been great especially since it's been so long since we did this. Im loving it t so far✅
Aww, that sounds like such a lovely way to read this!
This is the year I start reading Sanderson and it's thanks to you and your channel, that I discovered maybe a little too late last year 💘
Me to. Plan is all mistborn. About 8 books. Looking for ways to keep each chapter refreshed in mind
This is the secret project I was most excited about, but yesterday I realized I might be completely lost since I read the Mistborn series so long ago. Thank you for giving us a structure and an idea of how everything fits together. I can't wait to read it, once it becomes available in my country. And the cover is gorgeous!
I really enjoyed this first secret project and I'm so excited for the rest of them!
Me too Sophia!!!
I'm currently at Part 4 and this is the first Sanderson I see myself actually finishing. I've tried a couple over the years (and maybe I need to go back and try again) but I'm really enjoying this one.
Yay! That’s great 😄😄😄
@ebnovels it actually reminds me a lot of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, which could also be why I like it so much.
This was my first book of 2023. I can't wait to get the physical copy. 😁
I am just a few chapters in and it is already so cozy and charming. It really does have a fairy tale feel to it. I didn't know it was inspired by The Princess Bride. It makes a lot of sense. So far it has reminded of Neil Gaiman, in terms of characters and story.
I loved it so much! And I didn’t mind the younger tone at all! So excited for the next secret projects!❤
I read this before finishing the Mistborn trilogy (just finished Well of Ascension and hadn’t yet read Hero of Ages, but I was hooked with this book after the first few paragraphs) so I agree with the spoiler alert! It was small and vague but I knew I missed something. Thankfully it was vague enough to not spoil a lot
Thank you for this review! I want to start reading Sanderson, but I keep getting tripped up on where to start, but as a massive Princess Bride fan, maybe this is it! It sounds exactly like a story I will enjoy.
You were absolutely right. This is such a cozy book. This book is my first foray into Sanderson. I’ve only just discovered he existed a couple of days ago, and this video is what finally convinced me to jump into his material. And I’m glad I did! I’m totally in love with his writing style and ready to branch out further into his other works.
Thank you for this video!
Regarding what you said about the audiobook not working propperly on Speechify, I have to say that I read the whole thing on there and I had no issues at all. It might be something else that is going on perhaps.
Nice review as always😀😀
One of my personal favorite touches was the chapter header constantly growing through out the book.
I'm no cosmere expert by any means, but the amount of references to the other books was insane! I think this book is the most cosmere aware book out right now (which isn't surprising since Hoid is the narrator lol)
I've only read a couple Cosmere books, but I really enjoyed this one. While I'm sure I would have picked up on more things if I had read more, this definitely worked for me as a standalone book!
I have just finished reading this story and I absolutely loved it. I loved the character of Tress, her humanity, kindness and courage. It is great to read about a female heroine who is doing the rescuing and is able to achieve her quest independently! I remember watching The Princess Bride in the cinema when it was released and when I learned that this was inspired by the movie I had to read it. My favourite part of this book is the beautiful, unique colours of this world and the tongue in cheek humour.
I love this so so much! It has all the things we love about Brandobs writing and it has this whimsical tone added. It really does feel like a book one would write for their wife in the best possible way.
I also have had issues with speechify (using iphone 13 Max), wasn't at that specific chapter, was like chapter 3 or something very early on when suddenly the app just stopped working, would not load the story, and I could not figure out why. Fought with it for like 15 minutes, force closing and relaunching the app and various other things, then finally gave up and made a spotify account and loaded it on spotify instead. Haven't had any issues with spotify.
So would NOT recommend using speechify, don't know what issues they're still working out with their audio book player, but I'd hold off on using them till they work it out.
Edit: Reading other comments on speechify, its worth noting I did NOT sign up for their free trial, so its possible the issues are related to using a free account versus having an active subscription.
Also since I didn't mention it, loving the story itself so far, but The Princess Bride is my all time favorite movie and one of my favorite books, so this was easily the secret project I felt most confident I would enjoy.
"Hello friends" is literally always my favorite part of your videos!! 🥺💕
But thank you so much for the review!! 🥰 I think I'm gonna love this book because I love Sanderson's work! But also, because it's kinda cozy as well! I love any type of fantasy! ❣️
Also, did you pay for a premium subscription for speechify? Because speechify has a free trail where you can only listen to a couple of words before charging you. Maybe that's why the audio stopped?
I’m thinking that might’ve been the problem!
Hey there! I lead Audiobooks at Speechify. You do not need to buy the subscription to fix the problem. We have a small bug that is occasionally causing chapters to not download correctly. If you face this issue, you can resolve it by uninstalling the app and re-installing it. We are releasing a fix early next week to correct this issue 😊
So, I didn't know there was a survey to fill out in April--I just saw it, no notifier from Kickstarter or anything...I was wondering where this was! Will be glad to put on the que when it arrives.
I have just started this book and on chapter 3 and absolutely loving it 😊😊
I have to admit I was disappointed when we found out these won't be available on audible. That is where I had planned to read the secret novels after my physical copies arrive. After hearing why from Brandon, I can definitely understand the reasons why.
Why do people say they read audiobooks? That's like saying I'm reading The Beatles - Abbey Road.
@@BubbaCoop because they are reading them? There are studies that have shown the exact same areas of the brain are used for physically reading a book and listening to a book. There are people who cannot physically pick up and read a book. They are still reading the book when they listen to it.
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I loved it. LOVED IT. I have only read the first two Mistborn, so while I was spoiled, I'm looking forward to how those events happen now.
First book of 2023! And I loved it! Can't wait for physical copy so I can read it again.
My copy arrived today! So stoked!
YAAAAAS Tress was so good. Unlike with Wayne, the humor in this one worked for me. I would totally read more on this planet, I need to know what the other 5 or 6 spores do.... and I want to reread it already. I probably will when the physical version comes. Also, I think we had almost exactly the same opinion on where it fits in/potential spoilers for other Cosmere works.
Did you read through era 2 or listen to it? I was backpacking and went through Era2 as an audiobook. Michael Kramer must have had a lot of fun w/ Wayne, so I really enjoyed his character.
@@aaallllen I read it physically that’s a good shout though, next time I reread the series someday I’ll be sure to have the audio on deck and see if that helps me connect with Wayne better
The Speechify problem you describe sounds exactly like what happens to me in Audible when the files don't fully download. It fixes it for me to delete and re-download the file and I'll bet it would work for you too (you did not specifically mention that as a troubleshooting step you took)
I loved it a lot! The lighthearted tone was something I really needed starting the new year! But there was about 15% (maybe 40 through 55%) where I felt myself lose a bit interest, but fortunately it didn't last long.
At this point I’ve decided to just read the Cosmere in publication order because those references are out of control 😂. I tried reading The Secret History after having only read the original Mistborn trilogy and had a really negative experience with it unfortunately.
I loved reading this book and finding all the parallels to the Princess Bride (my favorite movie). I also don't think I kept a straight face for more than a page, but I've always loved our narrator's humor.
I agree it feels very young. I was actually reminded of the Percy Jackson books while reading as far as tone goes.
Nice video Elliot! Let's make 2023 great!
As a long time Audible user, this was my first audio book experience with Spotify. I'm happy to say there were no issues at all. Even if some parts were predictable, I really enjoyed this story. The tone of the humor was fantastic!
Love Branden Sanderson! 💙💙💙💚💚💚🧡🧡🧡🧡💚💚💙💙💙❤️❤️💜💜💚💚💙💙🧡🧡🧡❤️❤️❤️💙💙💚💕💕💕💚💚💙💙📖📚📙📙📙📙📙📖📚📚📙📙📚📖📖📚📙📙📚📖📖📚📚📙📚📖📖📚📙📙📙📚📚📙
Don’t listen to TH-camrs. Don’t listen to Brandon Sanderson himself. Defy everyone. Never let them know your next move. Start the Cosmere with Way of Kings.
I had the same problem, you had to buy the subscription for speechify. It only let you get so many words read to you for free. That’s why.
Ah, good to know!
Hey there, I lead Audiobooks at Speechify. You do not need to buy the subscription to fix the problem. We have a small bug that is occasionally causing chapters to not download correctly. If you face this issue, you can resolve it by uninstalling the app and re-installing it. We are releasing a fix early next week to correct this issue! We're also going to look into making our subscription options more clear so that this is not confusing for users in the future. Thank you and happy listening!
I loved it, and I think that this story would be an absolutely perfect first foray for (pure) Sanderson into a mini-series or movie adaptation for more reasons than I can list here.
Thank you for giving a clear bit of advice of what I may want to read before diving into this. I've just wanted that stated simply and I keep getting conflicted things.
The narration style of Hoid reminded me, in part, of the narration style of the Alcatraz series (which I had just finished reading book 4 prior to reading Tress). And both of them are very, very Brandon. Although, Tress wasn't quite so "full-on". It was a little more reserved.
As soon as the inciting incident happened I was struck by the influences from the Princess Bride - anyone who has seen the movie (or read the book I assume) will pick up on it - but it has such a good spin on it.
And I wasn't so sure of what I was feeling after I finished it last night, but you're totally right - it's cosy. You just want to give it a hug after you read it.
I can't wait for the physical hardcover to arrive though!
I am so excited to read it sounds amazing and that is so sweet of him to write a book based on Princess bride so sweet and amazing! 📙💚💚💚💚🧡📙📚💚📚🧡📙❤️❤️❤️💜💙📖💙❤️💚💚📚📙🧡💕💕💕📙📙💙💜❤️❤️💜💙📖💙💙💚📚🧡💕💕💕🧡📙📚🧡💕💕
I really enjoyed this book, and I hope that Sanderson keeps experimenting with different narrator voices because it worked wonderfully in this story.
It really added to the somewhat whimsical tone of the book, and AFAIK it's one of the first time that Sanderson really did anything different than a super simple and straoghtforward narrator/prose, it worked really well though and it can only get better!
Anyway, I was already excited about the secret projects but this one blew away my expectations, so I'm even more excited now.
I absolutely LOVED Tress of the Emerald Sea 💚. Since this was my first read from Brandon Sanderson, I was wondering if you had any recommendations or suggestions on what I would pick up next?
Please keep up the Cozy Fantasy recommendations!
I’m trying to hold out for the hardcover before reading this. Great review!
I'm 25% in on the kindle and I am here for the ride! I feel like it also is a Disney princess story if the Disney princess had no skills lol it is so nostalgic and fun! I hope to finish it tonight!!
I have the digital files but want to wait for the physical copy to read it! My fingers are itching though, your review has me so hyped to dive into this world
I think I'm finally going to jump into this genre based on your review. I've been watching your channel for awhile but have been hesitant to jump in due to the size of the books.
I hope you see this, I received a spam message saying it was from you and that I had won in a contest. I wanted to let you know but couldn't find a way to direct message you
Thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to it.
Ok, I've read The Final Empire and The Well of Ascension but not The Hero of Ages, so thank you so much for the heads up! THOA was going to be the next book I picked up anyway so I'll just let Tress wait for a little bit longer!
The story was quite charming. I agree that this did read younger and that it certainly has something for all ages. I was concerned at the start with our narrator and wondered if I could read an entire book from his voice, but he took a back seat as the story progressed and only peppered his commentary as needed. (Don’t get me wrong. I am fascinated by him as a character, but his humor doesn’t always land with me.)
Loving it, though not quite finished! I can't wait to share this book with my sister in law who hasn't read Sanderson-I think this will be such a great introduction for her specifically because of the coziness and general fun of the story. And the world is so fascinating (every time they light a cannon gets me 😂)
It’s such a fun, silly time! I hope your sister in law enjoys it 😄
I started this one and it felt silly and whimsical at times. It’s also very ordinary it a good way.
I look forward to reading this when it hits bookstores in April. My daughter just read The Rithmatist, and she asked me for Brandon Sanderson. So if this one reads a little more YA, maybe she will like it too.
You could also get her his Skyward series as that really is YA and quite good. But yeah, this book would be perfect for her.
I loved it! It was an absolute delight.
I also think it was a quite charming, cozy & whimsical book! Quite different from other Cosmere books, so while I think that it’s good for beginners, I don’t necessarily see it as a representation of what you’ll get with other Cosmere series! (If that makes sense!) - happy new year! 🎆
Great breakdown
I am about 80% through this book and I keep feeling like the visuals and the lighthearted nature of the story would make it a lot of fun for an adaptation.
Yet another fantastic video. Thanks for all the insight. Great way to start my day.
You’re very welcome!
Speechify didn’t work for me. I couldn’t load the audiobook at all. Spotify worked fine although downloading it all was tedious. Maybe there’s a simple way but I had to click every file file separately.
It sounds so much fun. I cant wait before i receive it :)
Wonderful review, El. 🙂
** spoiler alert ** *Spoilers*
My thoughts on Tress of the Emerald Sea
I loved it. I just finished it and immediately went on Goodreads to see what others thought about it. I saw one huge post on it from a reviewer. Although I am not that prolific I will do my best to talk about what I liked most about this book. I apologize in advance for any typos. My husband is in the middle of reading this book for a second time and asked me what I thought. The comparison to The Princes Bride feel is real. This book is whimsical, magical and unique.
~The magic system- he imagined this world with the emerald sea, crimson sea, and midnight sea. The moons of different colors with spores coming down. I thought the world he made was so unique and well done.
~The love story. Tress being the heroine of the story is a great take on this kind of love story. The beginning of the book shows a very basic girl falling for a duke son impersonating a grounds keepers son. He gets taken away by his father the duke and sells him to a sorceress and brings back a cousin as his heir. Tress sets off to save him. She becomes a pirate, befriended the crew and learned how to do magic with spores. After a long journey she finally gets to her love. When she sees him for the first time she feels meh. Thinks that she has grown so much in her journey and he has not. That is a like real life relationship issues. But Tress was just picking up on the fact that the Charlie the witch was showing her wasn’t the real Charlie. The reveals in this book were so good.
~The reveals - The rat, the traitor, but not the traitor. I don’t want to say more about this. I don’t want to ruin it. The reveals are a few and make the story great.
~The dragon - When I realized that there was going to be a dragon in this book, I looked in the table of contents to see when I was going to read about it. I was greatly anticipating that part to see what the author was going to do with it. I was not disappointed. His depiction of the dragon was so well written I could see him in my head. Crow (the mean ship captain) and Tress end up battling each other for the dragons favor. Crow ended up inadvertently boosting about Tress and her accomplishments and ended up losing the battle. Crow ended up reaping her bad karma and ended up scrubbing floors just like Tress started out doing in the beginning of her pirate journey. I liked how Tress asked for three things from the Dragon to help her friends.
~The witch - the witch that was more technical than a traditional witch. Good twist to the proverbial witchy storyline.
~Hoid ~A TH-camr, Michael Knip, created a video gushing about this book and I showed it to my husband and he let out a very unlike him exclamation when Michael mentioned Hoid. Apparently, he has been mentioned in other Brandon Sanderson books and my husband just realized it. His aha moment was so funny to me. I can’t wait to read Brandon Sanderson’s backlist. The only other Brandon Sanderson book I read was WarBreaker. “ Hoid was a comical character and also the narrator. “Hoid, why does Tress have this strange idea that you can be savin’ her?” “Probably,” I shouted over the rush of wind and spore, “because I just realized I should take up painting! And the Sorceress will be scared of my talent!” “You are so aggravating!” Ann said. Brandon Sanderson is so witty in this book. I laughed out loud many times.
~The illustrations. I bought the digital ebook and audiobook. The digital copy had beautiful depictions of the book. I tried adding a picture here but it didn’t work.
~The audio experience - I read and listened to the book. The audio was amazing. The voices made the book more alive than me just reading it on my own. Worth listening to the book. I highly recommend it.
This book is now near and dear to my heart. I will be re-reading this many times. It is now on the level of my magical Harry Potter books that I re-read when I need a pick me up.
I love this book! Such a masterpiece and I’m probably going to read it many times! 200 dollars well spent so far!
Can't wait to see the illustrations in color
I must confess that Mistborn is the only Cosmere series I have had any interest in.
Are you going to be doing a bookshelf tour.? I really want to see all the books you have!!
I'm so excited to read this but I only just started The Final Empire so I won't be picking this up for a while!
Question...Am I the only one reads Hoid's narration in the voice of Keith David (the voice actor behind Goliath from Gargoyles and Dr. Facilier from Disney's Frog Prince)?
Sanderson just amazingly good at writing female characters for some reason.
Ugh I want my physical copy! Lol I’m feeling impatient
Good morning Elliot Hope you have a great day xoxo 😘 📙📙📙📙💚💚❤️🧡💜🧡💕❤️📚📚📚💚❤️💕💙💙📖📖📚📙📚📚📙💚💚❤️💕🧡💜💜💕💚💚📙📙📙💜🧡💕💚💚❤️📚📚📚📙💚💚💕🧡
3:39 Weird because that's basically the plot of the Snow Queen
I had no issues with speechify. I didn’t see a way to not “purchase” the app though. Like it has the free trial for 3 days, but after that you have to pay for it. And it’s not cheap. So I will definitely be trying to use it for more than just my Sanderson audios. 😅
I think the pay aspect of it could definitely have played a role, but regardless, I hope you get more audiobooks out of your subscription!
You did not have to purchase the subscription to use it
@@shaitanstaint895 really? I couldn’t find an option to create an account without activating a subscription?.. 🥲
Oh well. I love audiobooks, so it won’t go to waste. 🙃
Just finished reading it...
Spoilers
I guessed Huck is gonna be Charlie...that took the fun out of that surprise but otherwise it was a good book
Shame I'm so far behind. Found you and found sanderson.. started mistborn but still only on chapter 2. Trying to study also
I'm struggling to finish Hero of Ages and now I have no idea where I left the book 🙃
Waaaait. Is Tress' fascination with cups a play on the name Buttercup?
I haven't gotten to this quite yet. My library hold on audio for Words of Radiance came in...already too drawn into it. Would you say Tress is a "fast" read that you don't realize the page count or is it a normal Sanderson slow burn type feel?
I am currently marking all the art I want to make as I read the Stormlight Archive...I'm sure I'll be doing some of that for this one too. I keep wanting to do art for Mistborn, but as both a reader and an artist I'm afraid my "interpretation" of what I see in my head goes against others view of characters and I avoid the possibility of the hate....
I find most of Sanderson's books to be pretty fast reads secret project 1 included. The only exceptions being the Stormlight Archive. Even then the back half is always a fast read for me, but it's definitely a slower burn than his other books.
This was very fast imo; I didn’t find it took much time at all :) And you should go for it with your art! I know sometimes people can be rude with seeing different interpretations, but the Sanderson fandom tends to be really uplifting of artists 💗
This might be Brandons fastest read of all outside of novellas like The Emperor's Soul.
The word your looking for when describing the princess bride is Campy not silly
Just hearing you describe the potential mistborn spoiler in a roundabout way I wonder if I can guess what you're talking about.
I'm going to try and say it without spoilers - IT SOUNDS LIKE you might be talking about the being who is later known as Harmony. Is THAT what is spoiled?
I read the first two Mistborn books and DNF’d the third one (I’m sorry, I know that’s sacrilege amongst the fantasy booktube community). I thought he wasn’t the author for me but I’m very intrigued by Tress of the Emerald Sea. I’ve heard that it’s written in a different style to his other books.
Spotify is just too expensive for audiobooks 😢
Thank U 😁 WIDEN MY 🌏🌏 WORLD
Bro the main character looks so Brandonian it's crazy .. I think it probably helps that she also sorta looks like what I would imagine a mormon depiction of a happy young girl would be in one of their religious textbooks. Which isn't necesarily a bad thing. But yeah.. I find Brandon's writing to be a tad too YA'ish even in his stormlight books. So I doubt I will enjoy an actual YA books.
Me over here having read the first two books of the Mistborn series and then reading Tress... (ruh roh)
Haha, I think you’ll be ok, you’ll just see a name you’ll probably recognize 😯
Thank you for this video. Ok, I have never read any Brandon Sanderson books, (but would love to). With that being said, would this series be a good place to start if I don't want to commit to reading all of his collections at this time? At the beginning of your video you did say that you don't need to read the Mistborn series to read the Secret Project series so that makes me think that I could begin with this series. Thank you for your input in advance. 😊
Though I have not read everything Sanderson has written, I've probably read 80% of it at this point, and I have to say I think this is absolutely weirdest thing I've ever read of his. To describe the style of this book, I would say this is Brandon Sanderson's vesrion of Hitchhiker's Guide.
makeup top notch
I didn't love the book, but the art in th book was pretty. The narrator's humor reminded me too much of Wayne after reading The Lost Metal.
"You'll recognize the narrator if you've read other cosmere books." I bet the narrator is pretty witty in that case.
Just ordered 4 secret project books so I had better get mistborn done asap. do i need to read stormlight before the secrets?
Bruh I though it was “trees” this whole time. My life has been a lie.
Looking for chapter overviews for mistborn so can refresh my mind as I go.. any ideas?
I didn’t back this Kickstarter, but are you aware of if those of us you didn’t back the Kickstarter is there a way for us to still get these books and read them?
Sanderson is releasing the books to the public still! Not sure of the dates though, but I don’t think they were that far behind the backers release
@@desireeh5547 Oh. Thanks for the info. I'll see if I can get a date.
@@august3777 ebook and Audio will be available on the 10th this month. Tor and Gallanz are releasing a standard hardback on April 4th. Brandon's store will have some of their premium editions leftover too after they mail them to the backers.
@@nondasedai6163 . Oh. Thanks for the info. Yeah, I just did a search on Amazon and they have all the books listed there. I didn't realize that they would be available there since it was a Kickstarter, so I learn as I go along. thanks,
Just popping in to say thank you to those who answered this for August!
Your non spoiler review has a huge spoiler in the title card!
For me speechify dropped at chapter 57, it just wouldn’t play further. I had to uninstall the app and reinstall it. I managed to make it through the rest of the book after that. I do think that it might be space related, perhaps a partially downloaded chapter just messing up the rest of the downloads.
Good to know! A few people also mentioned they had to get the paid version of the app to fix the problem 😯
@@ebnovels my goodness 🫣
Hey, I lead Audiobooks at Speechify. You do not need to buy the subscription to fix the problem. We have a small bug that is occasionally causing chapters to not download correctly. If you face this issue, you can resolve it by uninstalling the app and re-installing it. We are releasing a fix early next week to correct this issue! Hope you're enjoying the book!
@@chaitualuru great news! As long as it’s working for the March release I think you’ll have a really popular app feature with that! Can I suggest an end of chapter sleep function btw, and I would have loved to have the pdf of the book shown as the audiobook was being read too, though I recognise the complication of syncing am actual voice with text rather than a computer generated voice. The book is really beautiful, even the pdf.