Tress of the Emerald Sea

Brandon Sanderson just writes what I thoroughly enjoy reading. He manages to pull together elements that I really love in a book - characters I get attached to, original and imaginative world-building and magic, ALL the feels, humor and thoughtful commentary on life. Even in this book, the lightest and very fairytale-like story seems at first to be just a fanciful adventure, but somewhere along the way I was highlighting passages left and right that hit me right in the heart and it had me literally laughing out loud as I read. Don't go into this thinking you'll get the excellence or deepness of the Stormlight Archive books, it certainly feels like a ‘side' project in some ways, but do go into it with the expectation that Sanderson always delivers wonderful stories that are fun to get lost in with the signatures he's known for. I do honestly think some people will not like this one, even fans of his just by its nature alone, but I loved it!