The adventures of Tress, a young window washer from a kingdom upon a rock, are delightfully whimsical. Appropriately, Tress spends a significant portion of the novel aboard a ship sailing through various seas - each containing a different variety of spore which range from growing tentacle-like vines, becoming lethal needle-like spikes, and projecting shadow creatures that roam the sea. It provides a fun, light-hearted atmosphere to a book that takes place in a rather brutal world full of spores that are lethal - particularly around water. The narrator for the book, the reader quickly discovers, is a recurring character across many of the Cosmere novels whose witty nature makes for an interesting choice in this role.
Tress takes place on a world that is new to Sanderson’s Cosmere and features a likeable protagonist who sets out on an adventure to save the prince she loves. This allows the books to be very different in style and setting, while also having nuggets of details sprinkled throughout which demonstrate that interconnected nature between his books. Tress of the Emerald Sea is set in Sanderson’s Cosmere, which is the terminology for a connected set of bookish worlds written by Brandon Sanderson. The first book, Tress of the Emerald Sea, has made its way into the hands of backers, and if this is an example of the sort of book his backers can look forward to, there are likely to be a lot of very happy readers this year. The campaign went on to be incredibly successful, showing that an established and popular author can break new ground in the publishing industry. When Brandon Sanderson launched his Kickstarter campaign in 2022 to promote four secret project books, it created a ripple of waves through the bookish hobby.
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