White Sand, Vol. 2

Everything bad from Volume 1 applies here too but Khriss is now insufferable in the first half of this volume (at least gets better later), Kenton is just visiting one place after another and the worst character in whole Cosmere is probably introduced further here - Ais. I have Warbreaker flashbacks. The saving grace of this series was the art but the last chapter was for some reason drawn by another artist and the quality in comparison looks like child doodles.

Well, this is awkward. I had hopes for this book, but the art... gosh, I really hate the art.

I don't know how the story will end, since it seems like there's much more to this world to cover in just 3 graphic novels. Besides, this volume was slower than the previous one, so I have no idea how this is going to end.

I'm still gonna read volume 3, but I definitely prefer Sanderson's novels.

I find myself very much on the fence about the White Sand series. I am a huge fan of Sanderson, but I don't think his work necessarily translate into the graphic novel format too well. His writing style is very elegant and his world building is always fantastic, but it relies a lot on the description working with the readers imagination. When you put a graphical form to it, that imagination has less to work with.

I did feel this second book was better than the first. The world is more fully realised, and the character interactions better set up. I still find some of the jumping around between slightly jarring and hard to follow though.

This is a worthy addition to Sanderson's Cosmere oeuvre, but I feel that the format is not ideal. It would have been better as a novel. It is still an enjoyable read however and I can still recommend fans of Sanderson's work to check it out, but it is one of the less essential parts of the Cosmere universe.