Review: Wish this was a Full Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2011
I've played and beaten (as much as you can) the Infinity Blade iOS game, and Brandon Sanderson is one of my favorite authors, so when I saw this on Amazon I immediately downloaded it to my Kindle. I wasn't sure what to expect as the story for the game was non-existent at best and incomprehensible at worst. What I received in this book was better than anything I could have expected. It took a basic idea for a fun game and made it into a cohesive and greatly interesting world with unique characters. I don't want to spoil the story at all, but I gobbled up all of the background the short story threw at me like a starving man. The ideas that Sanderson explored explained pretty much every facet of the Infinity Blade video game. Not only did it give the world body, the story was also a joy to read. My only problem is that it isn't necessarily a full story as it's meant to be a bridge between the two games. I really want a full book in this world, so I'm hoping that Sanderson either helped write the story for Infinity Blade 2 or that he groups this short story and the story from the two games into a Sanderson novel. Until then, I guess I'll play through the game on my iTouch a few more times.