Tress is fantastic in the way she approaches almost everything. Not deterred, well maybe a little deterred at first, Tress will set off to save the man she loves. That is until he is taken for ransom by the Sorceress of the black sea, the most dangerous of all the seas. Charley is determined to make it back to Tress and will sabotage all of the set ups with eligible maidens to get back to her. When his father discovers how close they are, he and Charley head off on a tour of Islands to find him a wife. They tell stories to one another and have built something.

Tress is a window washer that befriended the Duke’s son as he was pretending to be the gardener’s son. The locals worshipped those twelve moons as gods, which we can all agree is far more ridiculous than whatever it is you worship.īecause this is told in Hoid’s voice some of the time, we get the whimsical way he blends the talents of whit into the story.

You may be scratching your head on how that works but trust me it does and Sanderson explains how in his storytelling fashion. Tress lives on the planet with twelve moons that rain spores, each moon a different kind of spore and therefor there are twelve different seas of spores that ships can sail through. Let’s talk about the world that Tress is in first because the one thing Sanderson does maybe better than anyone else is worldbuilding. One day, Sanderson will write Hoid’s origin story and this is a way to toy with his voice. Let’s just say I’m a huge Brandon Sanderson fan and I give fair warning that I’m probably not as impartial when it comes to his work. Hoid is the narrator and sometimes star of the book which focuses on a the son of a Duke and the Girl that went off to save him from a Sorceress. Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first book to be published out of the four stand alone novels set in the Cosmere. It is the most successful kickstarter to date. He then decided to publish them himself and announced it to the fans in the form of a kickstarter if you wanted in AND so many of us did. If you didn’t hear, Brandon Sanderson secretly wrote four books in the Cosmere during the no traveling portion of Covid. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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