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Brandon Sanderson: Cytonic (Hardcover, 2021, Delacorte Press) 4 stars

Review of 'Cytonic' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

DNF.

I was just completely bored with this story right from the start. It's incredible since I was really into the first two in the series and I even pre-ordered this with the expectations of wrapping up a really good series. The choice to take the action into the Nowhere and thus decoupled from the realities of the settings so far erased my connection to those settings. The nonsensical nature of these fragments and the way they shuttled past one after another made me uninterested in developing any connections to what was going on. The new character in that setting was likewise swept up in the wave of irrelevance. I don't think I made it even 25% of the way into the book before I realized I had no idea what was going on because I'd stopped paying attention.

This is the first utter failure of a Sanderson book I've run into since Elantris. I hope it's a one-off.