But, if you want to see the hidden secrets of this ancient tale clarified and exposed with many ancient mysteries solved and many exotic and erotic tableaux revealed, then this book is for you. is essential reading for fantasy fans.If you are looking for a traditional retelling of the history of the great fornicating lovers Tristan and Iseult, why, just keep on looking. “Sanderson again demonstrates his capacity for handling large and complex themes while creating believable characters…. Sanderson is clearly a master of large-scale stories, splendidly depicting worlds as well as strong female characters.” - Booklist on Warbreaker “This very superior stand-alone fantasy proves, among other things, that Sanderson was a good choice to complete the late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time saga. There is simply no other way to describe what he's managed to pull off in this transcendent final volume in his Mistborn trilogy.” - RT BOOK REVIEWS, Gold Medal, top pick! on The Hero of Ages Warbreaker might even take your breath away!” - Michael Moorcock
“An exceptional tale of magic, mystery, and the politics of divinity. “Sanderson melds complex, believable characters, a marvelous world and thoughtful, ironic humor into an extraordinary and highly entertaining story.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review on Warbreaker The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.Īnd return to men the Shards they once bore. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Īcross the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings.
In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors.
Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.
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