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| Title | : | Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2) |
| Author | : | Brandon Sanderson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1087 pages |
| Published | : | March 4th 2014 by Tor Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy |
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.
The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.
Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.
Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.
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| Original Title: | Words of Radiance |
| ISBN: | 0765326361 (ISBN13: 9780765326362) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/wordsofradiance/BrandonSanderson |
| Series: | The Stormlight Archive #2, The Cosmere |
| Characters: | Kaladin Stormblessed, Dalinar Kholin, Shallan Davar, Jasnah Kholin, Eshonai, Adolin Kholin, Hoid, Lift |
| Setting: | Roshar |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2015), David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2015), David Gemmell Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2014), Reddit r/fantasy Stabby Award for Best Novel (2014) |
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Ratings: 4.76 From 183613 Users | 11008 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2)
4/29/18: So far the graphic audio version of STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE has been fantastic, so Im hopeful that Kaladin will annoy me less this time . . . *crosses fingers*Reviewed by: Rabid Reads WORDS OF RADIANCE is the second installment of Brandon Sanderson's STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE series, and, unfortunately . . . it fell a little flat for me.Don't get me wrong, I liked it. This was one of those occasions when my rating steadily declined the more I stewed about the ends and outs . . . but immediatelyMarch 5th: Done with first readthrough. It was, in fact, more perfect than expected. I only cried a little bit; mostly afterwards I just have this feeling of intense satisfaction.I will probably still wait to review until I've read through twice; I have a lot that I think I want to say but I haven't fully processed it.August 10: It's obvious to everyone that I'm not gonna get around to a reread for a while, right? Cool. I'll do it eventually, because I have a lot to say about this book, but
The Stormlight Archive series is probably my favourite fantasy series of the lot. It has everything I want in a story. Good worldbuilding, cool magic, great characters, and a fast paced action packed plot that has a little bit of everything. The story held up well during this reread of mine and although I lost the impact of most of the shock twists and turns and some of the tension of the action scenes I was still fully engaged by the story and the characters and lot in the awesomeness that is
Words of Radiance is an absolutely marvelous continuation of the Stormlight Archive series. As many of you know, it gets harder to review books in a series the further you get away from the first book. Here I am at the end of only book 2 & already over 2000 pages into this series (or over 80 hours in my case) and there is just soooo muchhhh storyyyy! So naturally, it's tough to write a review without any spoilers BUT HERE I GO BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT ALL OF YOU!So one of the things I appreciate
Holy crap on a stick. I bow in supreme awe.That's it.
Shallan needs to fuck off not be in this series. She was the only reason i couldn't give this absolutely fantastic book 5 stars. On the bright side at least we got her out of the way. Can't wait for Oathbringer AKA Dalinar's book. Anyone knows when we are getting Szeth's?
*SPOILERS*Its always difficult to know where to start reviewing a book heavy enough to be used to squash small-to-medium-sized mammals (not that one would use the book for such a purpose, mind you, though I could have used it to get rid of the scarily large camel crickets in my basementI hate cleaning guts off books, though). So, lets try this:Number of times I inadvertently uttered Stormfather! as an epithet whilst reading this book: 14Number of times inadvertently uttering Stormfather as an
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