Warbreaker

Warbreaker once again suffers from the typical problem of the first book in any Brandon Sanderson series- a slow, plodding first half filled with worldbuilding, with an explosive and super fast ending. Its fine in TWoK or The Final Empire, where sequels followed, but not so much in Warbreaker and Elantris. Okay, yes, they both have planned trilogies, but Elantris 2 isn't coming until after SA4, which means 3 or so years from now (13 years since publication), and Warbreaker 2 isn't coming until some time after the Elantris books are finished. We still don't have any sort of time period for future Nalthis books, so I somewhat doubt we will see any in the next 10 years considering Sanderson's other considerable projects.

I feel like the first half could be condensed plot wise a lot. Like halved, especially considering a lot of what happens isn't really meaningful for the plot. I do understand why the first half was as slow as it was- for character development and world building. Ultimately, if sequels to warbreaker came out quicker I wouldn't raise this issues with it, so I'm not deducting stars for this. I understand that Nalthis isn't the writers primary focus.

I also disliked most of the PoV characters until the end (this is where Warbreaker loses a star). Siri was just meh until the end; Vivenna annoyed me a lot with her religious righteousness, and superiority/arrogance . Lightsong was good, but most of his PoV chapters were 50% monologues (or llarimar- logues) about his beliefs, 50% witty dialogue. Lightsong wasn't that important until the end. I felt like Sanderson could have reduced Lightsong's screen time, and replaced it with the awesome combination of Vasher and nightblood.