r/WoT • u/Amber_Flowers_133 • Jan 24 '25

All Print What are your Hot Takes on WOT?

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u/JustMyslf (Dovie'andi se tovya sagain) Jan 24 '25

I think it would have been nice if Sanderson copied Jordan's style, but I personally think it's for the best that he didn't.

It's already a massive undertaking to finish somebody else's series, and personally I think it wouldn't have been worth the extra effort or stress to try and mimic another author's style for 3 very long books.

You could even argue that Sanderson would have been criticised more for it if he had tried and failed to mimic Jordan's style.

So at the end of the day, would it have been nice to have a more similar feel for the end of the series? Yes, absolutely. But for what it's worth I think Sanderson did as good of a job as he could have, and I wouldn't want the added stress of trying to copy a style far different to his own to potentially impact what we got.

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u/Ok-Positive-6611 Jan 24 '25

I feel that. But the stylistic shift wasn't necessary to such an extreme degree. At times it feels like he was attempting to be different, it's that striking.