Elliot Brooks 168K subscribers · Aug 8, 2026

DNF's, Unhaul, Haul, and Library Saves

Reviews16

Mixed

I really liked the world building in Hearts Gambit and I liked the concepts, but I thought that the way the characters acted and the way the plot progressed, it just didn't quite end up lining up in a way that I found as polished as they would have liked.

Disliked

I thought that the world building was really fascinating, but I don't know that I ever was fully engaged and invested in what was actually happening and it had a little bit more of a lighter feel while also feeling like reflective and reliant upon some of the other Cosmere works.

Mixed

That one I definitely needed to immersion read for, especially because there is a lot of 18th-century philosophy, and a lot of it's French, and I was not going to be able to even mentally pronounce any of that correctly.