brandon sanderson the way of kings series

Jasnah is vocal, independent, smart and quick as a whip. Adolin is impatient, trusting, impulsive. I really want to pick a favourite character so I can pinpoint something for you, but honestly I just love everyone: Kaladin’s moody, vulnerable, but incredibly skilled and clever. All of them are complicated, fragile, strong, fighters, independent, warm. There are also multiple representations of women, which I am absolutely over the moon about. The characters, plot, world, just EVERYTHING, shows depth. The high storms, the rockbud creatures, the plants that can retract so they’re not blown away by the storm winds… Plus the Spren, which seem to be the physical manifestations of emotive life force… or just life force in general.īrandon said in his author note that this is the high fantasy series he’s always wanted to write. This slow burn (initially) opens you up to the complexity of the world the characters live in.

THIS SERIES GAVE ME SO MANY FEELINGS!! The characters are obviously all at separate points in the story, but eventually they cross paths in a myriad of intricate and interesting ways. Also there’s a war, but it’s been going on for so long that the princes and king are becoming complacent. These are available to Lighteyes, the socially highbrow people (e.g., Dalinar and Adolin), but only after being “won”. The narrative is intricately woven into the world of incredible storms that provide Stormlight, the power that fuels this world. (This is all simplified to the EXTREME, by the way.) The Radiants had Shardblades and Shardplate the armour makes the wearer ten times as strong whilst wearing it, and the swords bond to the user, appearing in their hand after ten heartbeats. And his son, Adolin, a prince and fighter of the court. Dalinar, brother to the King and famed general. Shallan, a scholar on a mission of theft to protect her family.

We follow: Kaladin, a soldier who’s become a slave. The Knights Radiant have been wiped out in Roshar.

You can read the Goodreads synopsis here! I’ll sum it up for you as briefly as I can! This series is currently ongoing, it’s not a trilogy. Book 3, Oathbringer, is due to be published in November 2017.

Brandon sanderson the way of kings series