I also like the illustrations at the end of the chapters that help you complete the imagery. Abe even I winced, it was like the claws of the abyssal monster scratching the walls at home. The glowing orbs they use instead of money. The places the characters visit are like a picture painted in our minds. The storm that blows in with its fierce winds and heavy rains. The strange animals that populate the world. You can even imagine the grasses and flowers recoiling at the slightest touch. Every line of description transports you to Roshar. I can’t find anything superfluous in the book. I can say of Brandon Sanderson that he is an absolute master at describing worlds. After all, that’s what he claims himself.

It is not an exaggeration when I say that this is the masterpiece of his work. But unlike me, my friend Angelina got to know the author through this series and I think this is the better choice. I would say I was pretty biased, as I was not impressed with Mistborn. Let me start by saying that The Way of Kings is the second encounter with Brandon Sanderson for me. 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. Book: “The Way of Kings” Series: The Stormlight Archive Book #1 Author: Brandon Sanderson 1007 pages, hardcover First published August 31, 2010įrom #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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