A review by ruzgofdi
Firefight by Brandon Sanderson

4.0

Everything I liked about the first novel in the series remains unchanged, while efforts were made to correct some of the problems I had with it. Well, maybe "correct" isn't quite the right word for it. To me, that seems to imply that a change was made to an error. The author doesn't so much fix a mistake from the previous work as gives enough information to show not only that it was part of the plan all along, but that there was also a very good reason in the setting as to explain why it was the way it was previously.

So if one of my big problems with the first book is gone, why has the rating not gone up? Well, it gets a bit cluttered in the climax. I'm not sure I'd agree with people that say this book moves rapidly from start to finish. Not with the extended training sequence in the middle. I will say that once it gets to part four, it's in a rush to be done. And that's where you can get problems. Problems like what exactly happened to this major threat that just decided to disappear in the middle of one scene.

I'm in for the next one.