All things Brandon Sanderson

velk said:

Cytonic was pretty good, although I was a little disappointed at the ending. For some reason I thought it was the last book, not another cliffhanger.

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I'm only halfway through it, so I can't speak to the cliffhanger. I also thought it was the last book. I've been enjoying the series though, and it seems like he's kind of making a universe out of it. There have been a lot of side story books. The one about the phone company, and a couple other characters have gotten little books.

velk said:

Cytonic was pretty good, although I was a little disappointed at the ending. For some reason I thought it was the last book, not another cliffhanger.

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So I finished it, and I will say there was definitely an opportunity to end the series if he wanted. I'm going to listen to the Alaneek book next (Redawn), but I have a feeling the Jorgen one coming out soon is going to be the one that is pretty interesting based on the end of Cytonic.

Captain Suave said:

Maybe it's just my reaction to the lower target audience age, but I feel like the Skyward books are better sales pitches for the inevitable TV series than they are books. Cytonic in particular was just utterly devoid of plot tension.

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Having read a fair amount of young adult type books over the years, I'd imagine it's more just about character growth than moving a specific plotline. These are also relatively short books for Sanderson. I think the book was pretty predictable, but it was mostly just about bringing you along for the journey of discovery. How did Cytonics come to be, what are the delvers, what's the problem, combined with growing as a person.

I will definitely give you that for the most part all the characters are very one dimensional, and nothing going on is very deep.

Captain Suave said:

$12.3M now 35 min after your post. I wonder how this compares to all the money he's made from his other books.

Edit: This has tripled his net worth maybe, in four hours? Those celebrity net worth site say he's got $5-10M now. Lol.

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It really doesn't. I'm sure Kickstarter takes a cut, cost of goods and shipping on all the physical stuff, and then he employees a good amount of friends and family that I'm sure he's paying a good salary too.

I'm not saying he's doing bad, he's definitely making good money on this. But probably not nearly what you'd expect

Finished Redawn and Evershore, the second and third Starsight novella following Allanik and Jerkface. I've tended to enjoy the Starsight stuff way more than I'd have expected. They do a great job of moving the universe forward outside of the main story.