Words of Radiance Author: Visit Amazon's Brandon Sanderson Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0765326361 | Format: PDF
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“I loved this book. What else is there to say?” —Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind
“This is a great choice for fans of Robert Jordan and Terry Brooks.” —Voice of Youth Advocates
“The best part…is the compelling, complex story of Dalinar, Kaladin, and Shallan as they struggle though emotional, physical, and moral challenges. Fans and lovers of epic fantasy…will eagerly await the next volume.” —Library Journal
About the Author
BRANDON SANDERSON grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He had the honor of completing Robert Jordan’s classic The Wheel of Time® series and is the author of the bestselling Mistborn series.
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- Series: Stormlight Archive (Book 2)
- Hardcover: 1088 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition (March 4, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0765326361
- ISBN-13: 978-0765326362
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 2.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
It's safe to say that Words of Radiance has the most pre-release hype of any of Brandon's solo works to-date. And it makes sense. The Way of Kings was Brandon's best work at the time, and so everyone is wondering, will Words of Radiance live up to the high bar set by book one? This is a sequel that has a ton riding on it. After all, despite the first book's length, there's still so much more of Roshar to explore. There's so many places that The Stormlight Archive can go from here, that it has been hard to predict what would happen in this book, much less a few books down the line. Words of Radiance could fall on its face. So, does it live up to the hype?
Storms yes it does.
"Of course you'd like the book," you immediately say. "You're a 17th Sharder, you'll love anything Brandon writes." I'd say this is somewhat true. None of us would be here if we didn't like what Brandon's done, but when you are a hyper fan, you set these books up to a high standard. You can see flaws that no one else sees, simply because you are so invested.
For a while, I worried that Words of Radiance would end up like The Well of Ascension, which I have some problems with to say the least. I loved Well's ending (which made it entirely worthwhile), but rereading it is a slog for me. Well of Ascensionwas Brandon's first true sequel, and it shows a bit. Obviously, Brandon has grown a vast deal from almost a decade ago when that book came out, but it was still a worry. Sequels are not easy, to say the least, but it looks like finishing up The Wheel of Time really honed Brandon’s sequel chops.
I also worried because--and this may sound like absolute heresy to many of you--I didn't immediately love The Way of Kingswhen it came out.
I wrote in my review on the Way of Kings that it was the first full introduction I had to Brandon Sanderson's work. And what an introduction! It was 1000 or so pages of "Hello, may I introduce what you've been looking for all your life although you didn't really know this is what you've been looking for until now." That book's magical ability to draw me in -- with its immersive power, with its fantastic world-building detail, its characters that covered the range of lovable to hateable to everything in between, its "omigod omigod omigod"-inducing plot and action-- totally dragged me into a whole new landscape of writing. I read somewhere that this was exactly what Brandon Sanderson was aiming for in this epic series, and I just want to say that he absolutely, breathtakingly nailed it.
Words of Radiance is everything that its predecessor was, and more. I also mentioned in my review for Way of Kings that it took me 500 pages to realize the treasure that I had in my hands. I can be forgiven because I'm a bit slow when it comes to humongous tomes like Way of Kings, and I'm not usually one to stay that long with so many pages unless I'm promised a payoff. And the payoff was rich indeed.
Words of Radiance hooked me from page 1. Scratch that. From the very cover. It may have been my expectations of a great read from an awesome author, or my excitement in waiting for what had been promised to be epic squared, that made me dive into the book with eager abandon. Well, my expectations were not only met, they were utterly demolished and reshaped. If I were to measure the number of squeals, cheers, outbursts of "wait, what?
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