I've just finished The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson. It's a great new take on fantasy, with a strong magic system. But, sadly, it fall into a few cliches. And I wish the book had like 50 more pages, to show better the character development. It isn't bad, but I felt it happened too fast. Either way, it's an interesting book - way better than the ones I've read about the same topic.
Nice.
I love the magic system in this series, and look forward to reading about your impressions of the remaining two books.
I hope it's better than Cell by Stephen King. I love King, but that book was awful.
I've tried to read cell 2 times. It always loses me before the halfway point. Which is too bad because I thought the beginning was fantastic.
Stephen King does a great job creating settings and characters, but he sucks at leading these components to a satisfactory conclusion.
Under the Dome was fantastic until he decided to
kill off everyone rather than resolve the far more interesting politcal and personal conflicts. Even with this, I would have left the book with a good impression if the last few pages had been altered. The only King book I can think of that had a great ending was
It, which also happens to be my favorite book of his.
As for
Cell, the beginning was great, it steadily got worse, and ended with one of King's worst conclusions to date.
Has anyone read his book about time travel? I do not remember the exact title, though it was a date. If so, is it any good, and more importanly, does it have a decent ending?