The Way of Kings

This story occurs in an entirely unfamiliar world, with alien plants, creatures, weather, and magic. Each chapter is a fragment of the story. Each fragment may jump to a different set of characters or a different time. Key elements of the story and the nature of the world are hinted at by the characters, but never explained to the reader - or finally explained much later. For example, ‘weepings' is a word which occurs frequently, but we're more than half way through the book before it is explained. One of the main characters keeps referring to some traumatic experience with his brother, but the details of that experience are trickled out little by little. It's as if the author is purposely trying to keep the reader in the dark.

I do not find this world interesting enough to put up with his writing style and continue with the series.