Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

(Titan Books, 2022)

Reviewed by John Dodd

I’m not a big Brandon Sanderson fan, so I’m going to apologise in advance if I’ve missed some of the nuance in the book because I haven’t read anything else of his.

Dawnshard is the story of Rysn, a captain who seeks her own way out on the ocean with her crew and companions. She’s different from other captains in that she doesn’t have the use of her legs, and so has to make up for this with the use of her mind and her mental alacrity. I’m making a point of this in the review because this is heavily noted in the beginning of the book, which is at odds with how things continue in this book.

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