After his record setting kickstarter, I read The Final Empire… boy I didn’t realize that my reading list was going to be overtaken by Sanderson books for the next 18 months as a caught up on the Cosmere stories. I’ve only got a couple more and then I can finally read some other authors! XD
I’ve read all of Cosmere so far (at least, all of it publicly available). I was definitely a huge fan of his in college, like 8 years ago (I remember attending a signing for Word of Radiance with some of my friends in 2014). Got into him from his finishing up WoT, something I was very into in highschool.
I’ve kinda mellowed on him recently. I don’t know if its my tastes changing, or if his writing has been changing (he did lose his long-time editor between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, and imo it shows). I only somewhat liked RoW and Alloy of Law, and I honestly strongly disliked Tress (though, that is tonally very different from his other Cosmere books, and very reliant on his humor, an aspect of his writing that never landed for me).
I read enough I’ll probably still read his next few books (and Sando’s books are easy reads, if often long). I’m hoping they’ll grab me again, but if I feel about them the same why I felt about his last couple, I’ll probably drop his series.