That would be

telling.

I'm a huge Brandon Sanderson fan, fantasy author.

He writes in this continuous universe called the Cosmere, and all his books are beautifully interconnected and everything.

Within that universe, there are a few beautiful standalone novels, one of them being Tress of the Emerald Sea.

And it tells the story of Tress, who lives on a very kind of simple, mundane island.

Not much is happening.

Phil,