Fantasy with Friends: Brandon Sanderson

Monday again, so it’s time for Fantasy with Friends! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about the work of Brandon Sanderson: Are you a Brandon Sanderson fan? Some readers online have called his books the “fast food of fantasy?” Do you think that’s a valid criticism? I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Brandon Sanderson; I’ve only read a couple of his books, and broadly speaking I enjoyed them, but he’s not a must-read author for me and I haven’t even touched his most popular series. I did recently read The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, and didn’t like it much at all — Sanderson’s idea of humour doesn’t match well with mine, for sure. I don’t know what I think of the epithet “the fast food of fantasy”, though. I remember finding the worldbuilding of Warbreaker really interesting, and was pretty interested in Elantris (though I stalled out on actually reading it for mood reasons and never came back to it)……