(Review #381)
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson earned a 4.5/5 stars for this fantasy with excellent sarcastic humor. The narration style is very different than what I’m used to.
Here’s my thoughts live while reading:
I’m not a Sanderson junkie or know much about his style of writing and stories. The first chapter had a very distinct voice. It’s clearly evident that he uses a higher level of prose than what I’m accustomed to reading. Some of the sentence structures felt overly complicated where I needed to slow down or reread to grasp all the elements he was trying to portray in one thought. So far it’s been very descriptive.
Tress is stuck on a not so great island, surrounded by dangerous spores.
She seems to be the only one who doesn’t want to leave and blames it on her cup collection. But I’m beginning to think it might be because she doesn’t want to leave her crush, the duke’s son.
The stowaway plan was brilliant. I love Sanderson’s story telling methods and how characters are shown to have depth with such little amount given. It’s a difficult skill to achieve. The sarcasm and humor is also spot on.
At the end of part 3 I’m a bit unsure where the story is going. Before she has such a clear objective to save Charlie. But now that she’s on a pirate ship, what is she trying to do?
Halfway through I’m wishing the pace was a little faster but I’m loving the spore creature monster. Their false assumptions of Tress’s real identity is funny. The crew each has such a distinct personality that they’re becoming a close knit family.
Aaah! The dragon scene was sooo good!
I flew through the last 100 pages. I thoroughly enjoyed this book because the story telling component was so unique. Sanderson’s vocabulary level is much higher than my average read so that took some getting used to but overall I enjoyed this a lot. We need more friendship books out there.
I think there could’ve been a better title name since they were barely in the Emerald Sea