Brandon Sanderson is not great at emotions

I was reading this thread in r/movies, and came to a realization about my current book. I’m halfway through Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives and have also read Mistborn, and not once have I been sufficiently emotionally invested in a character to be sad when things happen to them, or when they die. Those books are real page-turners and I greatly enjoy them, but it lacks that depth for me. Adversity always feels like “Oh great, another challenge for the characters to overcome. I wonder how it’ll be resolved in the end” instead of “Oh God they must be devastated, are they gonna get over it?”. By contrast, his contemporary Jim Butcher is pretty consistent these days getting the waterworks going for me (especially the audiobooks, James Marsters is a god).No particular point to this post, just my review. Thanks for reading.EDIT: People have made the point that my failure to connect has as much to do with me as with him. That’s a fair assessment. I think my title was more incendiary than I intended… via /r/books https://ift.tt/ShKxeq1