Anonymous wrote:My first encounters with his books were very engrossing. He has a talent for what they call "world-building" and in the setup. If you read one thing, "Mistborn" original series (trilogy culminating in The Hero of Ages) was good, especially the first book.
However, his characterizations, battles, style get repetitive and annoying across books. I read the way he finished Wheel of Time (the author died and left notes how it was supposed to end), and he just changed the characterizations and behaviors in a bunch of annoying and juvenile ways, and made up a couple of characters to resolve things and to fit his style.
One particular issue of his is he loses a sense of scale across books in the power of his characters' magic. In book one, say, there was only one or very few with very unusual and powerful powers....and then somehow in the next sequel there are tons of people as powerful or more without much explanation why and suddenly the people from the first book are just mediocre. Husband has compared it to Dragon Ball Z in this respect but I never saw that myself.
I have to disagree on the Wheel of Time, I think he did a near-impossible job admirably, if not perfectly. It's not like Robert Jordan himself didn't have occassional issues with annoying, repetitive, and juvenile moments. lol Sanderson's prose style in general struck me as a little better than Jordan's, although its not like either of them is Joan Didion or anything. He's a large cut above most genre fantasy fiction writers.
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