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The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive―the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.
Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray.
Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide―Adolin in Azir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah in Thaylenah. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.
At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiant killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium’s champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos. The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.
Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson
The Cosmere
The Stormlight Archive
● The Way of Kings
● Words of Radiance
● Edgedancer (novella)
● Oathbringer
● Dawnshard (novella)
● Rhythm of War
The Mistborn Saga
The Original Trilogy
● Mistborn
● The Well of Ascension
● The Hero of Ages
Wax & Wayne
● The Alloy of Law
● Shadows of Self
● The Bands of Mourning
● The Lost Metal
Other Cosmere novels
● Elantris
● Warbreaker
● Tress of the Emerald Sea
● Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
● The Sunlit Man
Collection
● Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
● Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
● The Scrivener’s Bones
● The Knights of Crystallia
● The Shattered Lens
● The Dark Talent
● Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson)
Other novels
● The Rithmatist
● Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
● The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
Other books by Brandon Sanderson
The Reckoners
● Steelheart
● Firefight
● Calamity
● Lux (with Steven Michael Bohls)
Skyward
● Skyward
● Starsight
● Cytonic
● Skyward Flight (with Janci Patterson)
● Defiant
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Catch up on the bestselling The Stormlight Archive
Book One Book Two Book Three Book Four Book Five
Publisher : Tor Books
Publication date : December 6, 2024
Language : English
Print length : 1344 pages
ISBN-10 : 1250319188
ISBN-13 : 978-1250319180
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.55 x 2.4 x 9.55 inches
Book 5 of 5 : The Stormlight Archive
Best Sellers Rank: #1,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #26 in Epic Fantasy (Books) #50 in Sword & Sorcery Fantasy (Books) #67 in Action & Adventure Fantasy (Books)
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Artyel –
Oaths fulfilled, not broken
When I read The Way of Kings way back when it first came out, I remember a couple recurring thoughts popping up throughout the reading: “Wow, I’m X% through a 1000+ pg book and I’m sad I only have Y more pages of this awesomeness” and “Holy crap this entire book is basically a prologue to something bigger.”Wind and Truth started slow. It felt like a soft lit reel of feel-good reflections by the main characters set to “Time of Your Life” by Green Day as they mournfully braced themselves for the epic final adventure. This bugged me more than most of my friends apparently.Me: “Ugh this is Brandon’s slowest start to a book EVER. We get it. People have grown and changed and there’s a lot of feels and goodbyes because probably people are going to die and the rest of the book is going to be insane non-stop action.”Others: “I mean it feels appropriate and I kind of like it…”Me: [rolls eyes and looks elsewhere for commiseration]Given the context now of the, ahem, journey and destination, I’m allowing myself to feel the feels of those early chapters.Unsurprisingly for Sanderson, the master of sticking the landing, Wind and Truth delivers. In appropriate counterpoint to The Way of Kings, it feels like a 1000 page climax. That feeling that ultimately happens in a Sanderson book near the end where something VERY COOL happens alongside a surprising and satisfying conclusion? There were so many of those in this book starting around the halfway point. Taln on the pile of bodies and Ash’s dying words… I almost jumped out of my chair. So much brilliant resolution of favorite character arcs (I’m left a bit breathless by Kaladin) – even the lingering unresolved tension in other arcs feels so very right (Shallan…).The significant criticisms are mostly true. Some of the writing felt slapdash. The book would have benefited from a powerful editor’s red pen. There’s a lot of telling rather than showing. There was some content new to Cosmere stories that made some readers uncomfortable (Rlain and Renarin’s romance and the explicit “revelation” that some characters have sex). The mental health themes got a bit heavy-handed (Kaladin responding to Ishar “I’m his therapist” might be the low point of the whole series). And there wasn’t as much resolution as many expected for the “end” of the five-book arc (I thought that was perfect, actually).Some of the criticisms are baseless contrarianism – as common as windspren when an author reaches a certain level of popularity. Stephen King writes great characters and sucks at endings. Patrick Rothfuss writes beautiful sentences but sucks at… actually writing. And for Sanderson, his prose isn’t Dickens. But where he shines, he is brighter than Nightblood’s self-perception. Sanderson uses the framework of fantasy to explore questions like “what is truth?” “what is good?” “what is leadership?” “how do people grow?” “why is there suffering?” and “what do healthy boundaries look like?” Rarely does he try and tell us what to think – even if a trusted character is coming to a conclusion, you can usually find someone else with a counterpoint or challenging a pithy answer with nuance. (A favorite exception in Wind and Truth is Wit’s rant against the Thaylen Passions religion – a thinly veiled and fantastically vicious condemnation of health and wealth style religions.)This distinction is so important and addresses some of the gripes popping up in one star reviews. Is Sanderson “pushing” a worldview down his reader’s throats? In my opinion, no. Do characters see particular worldviews as good and provide thoughtful reasons for them? Yes. It has always been that way in his books. Jasnah has been providing compelling reasons for atheism and Utilitarianism since The Way of Kings. Sazed argues for Universalism in Mistborn. Wayne (Mistborn Era 2) steals everything. I love Jasnah and Sazed and am not a Utilitarian or Universalist. I love Wayne and think his kleptomania is wrong. But I don’t think I can believe in a thing if I can’t provide compelling arguments for the opposing options. Part of why Sanderson’s characters are so compelling is their willingness to think, argue, grow and change – just like us. What Dalinar was convinced was right and good changes as he learns and grows. Same with Szeth, Kaladin, Shallan, Navani, Adolin… you get the point. And the arcs are not necessarily linear – just like us they can be iterative and recursive. So to assume a character (or the author behind the pen) is telling you that their previously held beliefs are wrong because they’ve progressed to the next thing is an intellectual fallacy of progressive ideology (that Sanderson has already shown he does not fall for).Readers who are upset by Wind and Truth are reading fantasy for the wrong reasons. To be fair, the genre label is misleading. If you want saccharine thoughtless unchallenging escapism that fits and protects a narrow worldview, every flavor is available. But this is a series of books that is literally about people being challenged and growing.Seen for what it is, I think Wind and Truth is satisfying on a visceral “well that was freaking awesome” level as well as emotionally and intellectually. In my opinion, the people who don’t like it haven’t been paying close attention to the Cosmere books.No matter your opinions (and mine are high – it could be my favorite Cosmere novel to date), he has changed fantasy forever.
Harris –
Spectacularly ties most loose ends
I did not enjoy this as much as the best of the previous ones. This book is full of exposition, the amount of backstory we got feels like it doubles what we had been given for all the series so far!It’s amazing however that the outcome was not predictable at all and that we got pretty good answers. So, this part of the story focused on understanding Roshar history and crafting a satisfying finale.While these goals might seem weak, most writers fail to deliver a proper ending or to fill the gaps in their stories. They build expectations, sheltered behind obscurity and when the time comes to drop the curtain, there hardly anything to show. Well, Sanderson does a pretty good job at that.Our protagonists all have their moments and progress. If you have read more of Sanderson’s works you know what kind of ending to expect and yes, this feels like an ending, though there is a lot left untold. But yeah the scope of this story was so huge that not everything could be tied cleanly.Without going into spoilers I will say that the pacing is slow. You know all will happen at the last 15% but you don’t feel that the first 85% is not worthy. I wanted to read this book in 1-2 days, though it was too large so it took me like 4-5. I could hardly stop reading.There is emotion – not as strong as in some previous books, but enough to leave you in tears at times. Mainly that’s why I gave the 5th star.If you reached this book I doubt you will skip it no matter what I write. If you do care, I will say that this whole journey (as journeys are often mentioned in the series) has been a precious experience for me – maybe my best book series. The ending is a bit more chaotic that Mistborn 1, but I will hold the 2 intros of the way of the kings in my heart until I die.I must also add that if you are facing depression this series will probably help!Life before death!Journey before destination brothers and sisters!
Shane to the B –
This is the best Sanderson YET!
I’m a huge reader, Probably 2-3 books a week. Sanderson, admittedly, is one of my favorite authors due to his unique writing style and worlds.This book blows anything away that he’s written in my opinion! There are 3 main point of views you follow through this book and they change up pretty darn often which keeps the pace moving pretty quick. I remember seeing that I was only 20% of the way through the book and I couldn’t believe how hooked I was and how much was happening already. Brandon has a way of being a little sloggish in the Stormlight Series… NOT in this book. The pacing is perfect.There is a lot of introspect in this book. A lot of self discovery, but it’s not boring – it’s tied together with constant happenings. None of it feels forced and some of it is a bit surprising. You have to actually think about the whole book to even realize it’s surprising because of how well it’s done. You will see some people completely different at the end of this book. One in particular, in my opinion.I laughed out loud plenty of times. I sat on the edge of my seat plenty of times. I thought I had it all figured out plenty of times (I was right about a couple of things throughout the book). In typical BS fashion Brandon tosses ya a few things that are almost impossible to feel out even though he does foreshadow here and there. You have to realize he loves a fake foreshadowing as well though.Overall, this is my favorite book I’ve read of his. It brought so much together, elightened quite a bit, and really has me wondering what’s happening next. VERY hard to try to figure out. But I CANNOT wait to see.One note: As usual, you don’t need to read the rest of the cosmere books for this, but oh boy if you do it’s a lot more fun (at least I think it would be since I have). No matter what, get this book!
Cliente de Kindle –
Hay demasiadas cosas que este libro hizo bien, entre ellas cambiar mi sentido de identidad, pero quizá la más importante si piensas leerlo es saber que fue un buen final. Supo agarrar todos los hilos que fueron planteados en los anteriores libros y dio respuestas satisfactorias.La verdad, es difícil sentirse decepcionado y me siento honrado de haber participado en este increíble viaje.
Daniel –
Favourite author. Hands down. This was an incredible conclusion to the series. After this I can’t not read all his other books.
Luc Ceulemans –
thank you
Kindle Customer –
Insanely good series, can’t wait for the rest of it! An incredibly unique and fascinating world, with compelling characters who are the right mix of regal and relatable.
Crystal McConeghy –
This was a huge disappointment. I thought I was buying another clean epic fantasy but I found this was just another LGBTQ+ Romance for politics. I guess Brandon forgot his audience and the reason his books were so universally loved. Another book like this and I will need to say goodbye to the trust I had for one of my favorite authors.