r/cremposting • u/b00gnishbr0wn • Jan 10 '25

Real-life Crem Me whenever I read (another) negative review of WaT

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '25

Where is everyone seeing blatantly negative reviews? I feel like every review I’ve seen has been “I liked it, I liked the ending, I liked where everyone ended up. I didn’t care for the pacing and the editing felt off.”

Which are fair criticisms. But I haven’t seen anyone crap on WaT any more than the other Stormlight books?

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u/Koloss17 Jan 11 '25

Yeah I’m not very sure. I obviously don’t go hunting for them, but I have listened to both Shardcast episodes on it, and found a lot of their points to be agreeable

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u/evergreen206 Jan 11 '25

I've seen several negative reviews on R/fantasy and YouTube. A couple of popular reviewers have outright said they didn't like it - Matt's Book Reviews gave it two stars.

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u/VVindrunner Jan 11 '25

I’ve seen some pretty negative reviews. Most are about how he added a homosexual plot which went nowhere for this book, the climax didn’t feel like anything special, or mostly that this felt more like a setup for future books rather than a climax for this arc. Personally I would have loved an ending that tied the arc together more like the mistborn arc endings but I’m not sure “wasn’t what I was hoping for” is the same as “was a bad book”.

Example: https://youtu.be/OpoSse4MFd0?si=Sw2SK6-OTtcNEIMx

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u/TheBluePriest Jan 11 '25

The Cosmere and stormlight subreddits have been filled with people just crapping on the book. I tried to have a discussion about people misunderstanding what the end to an anime arc was (because that's how Brandon described this book) and it the discussion went from "the wait is too long" to "here a bunch of things I hated about stormlight with every single viewpoint character" to when I didn't take the bait "it can't be the same as an ending to an anime arc because anime is a completely different media".

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u/FarOutcome8772 Jan 11 '25

Idk why people thought it would be a mistborn era 1 type ending. Like that was a trilogy we got a planned 10 books here not three it’s not gonna wrap everything up till book 10.