I just read The Sunlit Man

Published on October 27, 2023

Cover for the Spanish version of The Sunlit Man

Name The Sunlit Man
Author Brandon Sanderson
Pages 544 (Spanish physical edition)
Rating 4 (out of 6)
Recommended For Sanderson fans and fantasy/sci-fi lovers, yes.

The last Secret Novel from Brandon Sanderson, titled The Sunlit Man (or El hombre iluminado in Spanish, the version I read). This is the most Cosmere focused novel of the four, with a lot of references to The Stormlight Archives series; or at least I guess so, since I haven't read any books from that series yet, though some names feel familiar.

I've enjoyed it, just not as much as the others to be honest. I liked the environment a lot and the idea of a planet that can kill you easily and what that means for the population of the planet, their livelihood, their interactions, ... In the end is a Space Opera ala Sanderson, and I don't know if I just got spoiled with Tress of the Emerald Sea (my favorite of the three) that I just wanted something as different. and this one being the most similar to the novels I already read from Sanderson just made it a little worse for me.

Even with that, I recommend fantasy/sci-fi lovers a read; it's just around 500 pages of non-stop movement, you get to the heart of the story pretty quickly and from there is just non-stop movement until you get to the outcome in the final two-three chapters.

And with this, the year of Sanderson is over.


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