Tailored Realities

Reviewed on 18th April 2026

This collection of Brandon Sanderson's non-cosmere shorter works spans a variety of stories of a wild variety of lengths, some of which I've read before. There's some good stuff, but reading it all back to back got a bit much.

So hard to summarise, but here goes - one statement per story.

Knowing what's coming makes it much sadder. Non-typical interesting little story that makes you think. Cute and clever. Moderately horrible and unusually violent. A hard-to-like character in layers of world building. Surprisingly short yet actually quite interesting. Rough at first then came together. Starts slowly but ends excitingly. Short and weird as a standalone. Not as engaging as I'd have liked.