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Overview of Tress of The Emerald Sea - By Brandon Sanderson Tress of the Emerald Sea is a 2023 book and is the first published novel of Brandon Sanderson’s secret projects, these were a series of books that he wrote isolated from his writing responsibilities and for his own enjoyment. This novel is a part of Brandon Sanderson’s overarching interconnected book series- The Cosmere. This novel is set on the planet of Lumar. The goal of Tress of the Emerald Sea was to capture the essence of a fairytale, as well instil humour throughout. This novel is written from a third-person perspective and the narrator is a man known as Hoid who also stars in the novel- but deprived from his usual acerbic personality. The story follows a young girl Glorf, who goes by the name Tress, that lives on an isolated island surrounded by a sea of spores. The spores at times go through a process known as fluidisation- which allows the traversal of the spores via ship. In this world, the spores are treated with f...

Overview of The Final Empire - By Brandon Sanderson "The Final Empire" is a 2006 work by renowned author, Brandon Sanderson, and is the first novel of the "Mistborn" series. The book starts with the simple premise "what if evil won?" It takes place in the dystopian "final empire," ruled by the omnipotent "lord Ruler," an apparent sliver of God himself.  We meet the all powerful despot centuries into his immortal reign, in this time he has created different classes of people, with the evil noblemen said to be the descendants of those who helped him rise to power 1000 years previous. The aristocracy rule over the "skaa,"  an almost indistinguishable group of humans, who are forced to either work on plantations in the country, or live in squalor in the cities. The nobility exert total control over the Skaa, with beatings and executions met without repercussion. The law of the land are the Lord Ruler's "obligators" a...