Target: Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2)
Profile: Epic Fantasy
After a seemingly interminable four years of waiting for Brandon Sanderson to wash his hands of the Wheel of Time, it is finally time to return to the series that got me hooked on Sanderson in the first place, The Stormlight Archive. The Way of Kings was a great novel that suffered most from being little more than a prologue to the rest of the series. But now the real story can begin.
Words of Radiance returns us to the world of Roshar, picking up almost exactly where The Way of Kings left off. The four main protagonists have been carried over, though Shallan has a much larger role in this book, and Szeth has fewer chapters. The events of Way of Kings have brought all the major players to the Shattered Plains where the Alethi campaign against the Parshendi is drawing to a close. At the same time, signs and portents of a great calamity begin to appear around Dalinar and Kaladin. Time is running out, the Alethi are on the brink of a civil war and the Assassin in White has returned to kill the last great leader in the east.
Dammit, you beat me to being the first to review this. And it was soooooo good I can’t even form words. Which is why I haven’t written my review yet :)
It is so good! I don’t think I did the book justice. I was re-reading the review just before posting and I realized I hadn’t talked at all about the interludes, which are all amazing. But I didn’t know how to bring them up in a concise way. So that didn’t happen. …
At the moment, I just don’t have the time or energy to devote to great big books like this, but I am really looking forward to finally being able to delve into these books (even though I know I’m signing up for another wait of years and years by starting another epic fantasy series this early). I rate all of the other Sanderson books I’ve read so highly though, and just know I’m going to love them. Reviews like this make me even more convinced.
How the hell did you all read this so fast? I’m on it. But yes Malin – these books are HUGE so you need some time to commit. But these and the Name of the Wind series, they’re worth the effort.
As alluded in the review, a lot of 3AM nights. Totally worth it though!