I’m working my way through Sanderson’s Wind and Truth, and honestly, it’s a bit of a chore

I love the Stormlight Archives series, mainly because I’m invested in the characters. But I feel like Brandon Sanderson has written himself into a corner. The first two (or two-and-a-half) volumes did a great job tying the characters’ personal growth and challenges to the unfolding plot and lore. But now it’s the other way around: the characters race from event to event merely to have lore exposited to them. I feel like he devised so many mysteries and interlocking components that he has no room for anything else. There’s no evocative description of anything but action. It’s like reading someone’s worldbuilding notes at times: “and then this happened, and then he was like ‘Rah’, and they were like ‘gah!’ and then they went here…”

I’m still invested in the outcome of the story because I’m attached to the characters. But I wish the story hadn’t gotten so gargantuan so quickly

EDIT: Just to be clear, I don’t actually have a problem with the themes of the book, re: mental health and self acceptance. It’s good to read an epic fantasy that isn’t “Everything sucks and only the cruel triumph” for a change. It just feels that with so much lore to cover, these themes aren’t delivered with any subtlety

EDIT 2: Apologies, but haven’t visited this subreddit for a while in order to avoid W&T spoilers. So I wasn’t aware this had already been discussed to death