That book explores why Alcatraz is such an unreliable narrator and is also the high point for the drama. In all honesty, the fifth book, Alcatraz versus the Dark Talent is the high point of the series. I would argue that the heroic fantasy story is just an excuse for Sanderson to talk about how narratives work. The books don’t just play with literary tropes, they gleefully point out that they are doing it. It’s not a surprise, particularly since he clearly survives to write the first five books.Īs I’ve written before, the Alcatraz books are a celebration of the unreliable narrator. I’m not going to talk too much about the plot. Because Alcatraz had a Heroic Blue Screen of Death at the end of the fifth book (so that’s what Heroic BSoD stands for, huh), his bodyguard and love interest has to take over narration. The last book is Bastille and the Evil Lbrarians. Okay, I’m talking about the last book in a series so you’d better believe there are spoilers. (To be fair, it looks like the delay was due to the publishers, not Sanderson) That’s because I was late to the party and didn’t have to wait the full five years that OG fans had to wait. I am quite lucky because I only had to wait a year for the last Alcatraz/Evil Librarian book by Brandon Sanderson to come out.
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