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I had been toying with reading some of Brandon Sanderson's other stuff since reading his first foray into the "Wheel of Time" and I recently picked up the "Mistborn" trilogy, and now this. I think I see a theme so far - a particular fascination with coming up with different ways to do "magic", and defining very clear rules for them. It's as if you can have magic, but it can't be the "and then a miracle happened" kind. Oddly, this is making me think of Terry Pratchett as I write, because although his stories are very different, they are all about action and reaction be it from a magical or a moral point of view. Anyway, enough meandering.
This story is fascinating. It has a pretty original kind of "magic", which engenders "gods" under certain circumstances, and creates a very powerful nation that chooses to worship said "gods". The story centers (mostly) around two princesses from a small neighboring nation, one of whom was trained all of her life to become the bride of the head god in an act of appeasement, and her sister who was not. It all begins to get interesting when they are switched at the last moment.
The other key character is Vasher, who opens the story and we quickly realize is not all he seems. It takes a long time to figure out exactly who he is, but then what would be the fun if it were given away early in the plot?
My key points are that I have found Brandon Sanderson's own novels to be very engaging. The characters are all very well realized and absorbing, and the concepts and scenarios are new and refreshing to me, who has seen a lot of fantasy if I do say so myself. I might add that it was the author's breath of life (sorry Robert Jordan) to the Wheel of Time that attracted me to him, and I have not been disappointed.
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