White Sand

Brandon Sanderson · Rik Hoskin

Jun 2016 · White Sand Vol 1 · Dynamite

About this ebook

A brand new saga of magic and adventure by #1 New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson! On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number, Kenton, believes himself to be the only survivor. With enemies closing in on all sides, Kenton forges an unlikely partnership with Khriss -- a mysterious Darksider who hides secrets of her own.

Ratings and reviews

I enjoyed the book, but I must say I'm incredibly disappointed at the price. Ridiculously overpriced for such a short book. If you buy it, be prepared to be finished in a few hours and the story have barely even started. I feel I should say that the Vin series is one of my absolute favourites and while this story is also fascinating, it is too expensive. You pay more for this than a Mistborn novel and it is over in a fraction of the time.

I am a fan of the author generally speaking and I was hopeful about this "graphic novel" but for the price I was expecting it to be much longer. If this was three dollars I might have been mildly entertained and not feel cheated. Like all Sanderson books the world he created here has potential for great stories but this super short form doesn't leave room for deep characters.

That base story is great. This only goes so far into it and stops to suddenly. I want the rest of the story of now so I can be satisfied. I am not the biggest fan of the artwork and it seems there are a lot of missing details due to this being a graphic novel.

About the author

 BRANDON SANDERSON was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was finishing his thirteenth novel when Tor Books bought the sixth he had written, Elantris. Tor also published six books in Brandon’s Mistborn series, along with Warbreaker and then The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, the first two in the planned ten-volume The Stormlight Archive. Five books in his middle-grade Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series are being released by Starscape. Brandon was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, culminating in A Memory of Light. His YA novels include The Rithmatist from Tor Teen and the Reckoners trilogy from Delacorte, which concluded with Calamity. Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He also cohosts the Hugo Award-winning writing advice podcast Writing Excuses.

RIK HOSKIN is a comic book writer and novelist from England. He has written Superman, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Shrek, and Mercy Thompson, and helped develop a successful Spider-Man title aimed at younger readers. He has recently written two animated “motion comics” for BBC Children’s Television Drama and a graphic novel for India based on The Mahabharata. Rik also collaborated with Brandon Sanderson on the comic book adaptation of Mitosis. As a novelist, Rik has written Hercules, the Legendary Journeys, and was the primary writer on the Outlanders science fiction series under the pen-name “James Axler”.

JULIUS GOPEZ began his career with work on Wetworks for Wildstorm, and quickly followed that up with work on Gears of War, Team 7, Superboy, Ravagers, and an 8-issue run on Red Hood and the Outlaws. Julius lives and works in the Philippines.