Novel: Calamity

Novel: Calamity
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Entirely subjective rating: Four hours of fun.

Non-spoiler review: This is the third part of a trilogy. In a world where super powers happened, and people with those powers turn evil ... one ~20 straight cis white dorky man must use his virtue to save the world.

Spoilerific review:
This is YA, and I've got to give it some slack for that. But, I don't want to give it slack for the message: If you are persistent and good enough, then the girl will fall for you, the villain will repent, and you can save those turned to darkness.

This year, I've been trying to be more aware of the fiction I read. This is one of the few books which has a male protagonist, read because I adore Sanderson's other novels. Which, granted, predominately have the same sort of young white male protagonist. Mostly.

This novel is exactly the sort of thing I'm trying to stay away from this year. But, not only are habits hard to break, but this really cleansed my pallete after Transcendental. Which had much of the same plot: a dude is caught up in affairs to big for him, and then figures it out because he's awesome -- but Sanderson's writing is so much better.

This isn't a book that'll make me a better person. Heck, I'm pretty sure that if this was all I read and I did so without thinking, I'd eventually become a Mormon. But, still, it is a lot of fun.