The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projects 2)

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson: his debut novel for the young-adult audience. Now enough of that silliness. Let’s get to the worldbuilding as it’s quite extensive. For one thing, the juxtaposition of a futuristic world to a medieval setting is really entertaining, but it also means familiarizing yourself with two different sets of worlds/time periods which took me a bit to get used to. But I guess that’s par for the course for this blend of genres – and for Sanderson. Maybe that’s just me. Killing is desperation, not strength. To live without killing… that is a strong society. If the reverse were true, my lands would not be withering away, like crops long without water…” Damn, that guy could be profound. And depressing. Five stars. Should be narrating documentaries about disasters like Chernobyl. Or my love life. Well, I definitely hadn’t been an academic. But I was pretty sure that in buying this place, I wasn’t supposed to have been sent off to land in a field. Something had gone wrong. Therefore, I used my entire life’s experience—roughly half a day so far—to devise a plan. I found a nearby tree with a view of the gates, then hid to wait until it opened.

Comencemos, eso de "fascinante" que anuncian no lo vi por ningún lado. Ni con una lupa, ni con el mejor microscopio fabricado por el ser humano. It was an extremely expensive augment. As I recalled—which, granted, wasn’t saying much at the moment—it wasn’t uncommon to start plating a few body parts, then move on to others. Most people would go for the head and the chest first. That made the most sense. I forced myself to wait a few tense minutes until, as I’d expected, a man in an orange cloak left the manor, accompanied by two soldiers—at least, they carried long, one-handed axes and round, wooden shields. No armor that I could see. They had a vaguely Viking look to them.

Me deja bastante alucinado que, esto, lo haya escrito Sanderson. Algo he oído por ahí que ni a los editores les gustó o les convencía. Pero bueno también hay lectores que lo ponen bien. Regardless, it didn’t look like I’d arrived at a “suitable location” to recuperate. I’d woken up in the middle of a field. A burning field. The review almost wrote itself. “An ideal experience, if you happen to be a pyromaniac cow. One star.” I couldn’t hear the conversation, but it caused another boy to go running for the stone building. It seemed to be of much finer construction than the others, so perhaps it was the lord’s manner? And that other big building, the wooden one, was perhaps a meeting hall?

We rounded the building to the main courtyard, which was empty for the moment—though the candles still illuminated the bowls in front of the lord’s manor, one full of berries, the other brimming with what appeared to be milk. I had to guess this was some kind of folk superstition. A way to appease these “landswights” I’d heard people mention.

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I’ll stay,” she said. “Take my brother; send him to me with word if anything truly unusual happens with the messengers.” Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart,The Emperor’s Soul, and Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians. If you’re already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings. I wasn’t used to this kind of primal darkness. The shadows seemed deeper, as if strengthened by the knowledge that I couldn’t control them with the flip of the switch. I moved among the silent homes anyway, and found that there couldn’t be more than twenty buildings here. All of a triangular shape, wood and thatch. Two out of five. Probably has terrible wifi. A pesar de lo anterior, me pareció que tenía unos puntos muy buenos. Por ejemplo, la discusión que se formó sobre el rol de los dioses y su participación en la vida humana. Es un tema recurrente en Sanderson, la deidad y la religión y aquí volvió a tocar el tema, claro que lo hizo con un tono de broma, pero el trasfondo me pareció profundo. Por otro lado, el arco del personaje me pareció lo mejor del libro (la media estrella es solo por eso), me encantó el proceso de intentar descubrir quién era, para luego intentar descubrir quién quería ser. Los mensajes relacionados a la dignidad, al luchar por lo que se quiere, a no huir y todo eso me parecieron muy bellos. De verdad que solo por el protagonista disfruté este libro.