Sanderson is good, but not quite what I'd call great. I recently read the Stormlight Archive (I'd tried Mistborn years ago but didn't get into it) and enjoyed i

Sanderson is good, but not quite what I'd call great. I recently read the Stormlight Archive (I'd tried Mistborn years ago but didn't get into it) and enjoyed it. But it was the kind of enjoyment where I was very engrossed while reading the books but didn't find myself thinking about them very much afterwards. He's not without novel worldbuilding ideas, but, thematically, the books don't do a whole lot that I haven't seen before. Though that did start to change a bit with Oathbringer, his most recent book. I also admire his obvious and sincere efforts to include non-neurotypical characters in the series. He specifically thanks people he consulted with about this in his acknowledgements. The Stormlight Archive includes, among its main and secondary characters, people with depression, PTSD, and autism. I think it's great that he's giving people who have those, especially kids and teenagers, a chance to see themselves as heroes in an epic fantasy series. The depictions aren't perfect, but they're pretty good, and they avoid some common pitfalls. Nobody gets superpowers from their mental illness, for example.