The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings is the first book in The Stormlight Archive, which will be a 10 book series that shall compose the main body of Brandon Sanderson’s legacy. This 1007-page monster is Sandersonian in every way. It is direct (at times,) entirely alien yet believable, exciting, visual, and addictive. It’s a fantastic read, and I eagerly anticipate the upcoming release of the second book in the series, Words of Radiance. (I have already preordered my autographed copy.) I may have mentioned this previously, but Sanderson is doing something very interesting with his work, and it bodes mentioning in this post, since it appears more obviously in this book than in the others I’ve read thus far. Sanderson is constructing a large-scale epic fantasy which will be composed of his complete body of work. Each of the stories takes place on a different planet in Sanderson’s connected universe, called the
