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The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game.
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar’s crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.
Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.
At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of
incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that
they have shaped ecology and civilisation alike. Animals hide in
shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the
soil-less ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers
shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten
consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their
Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of
armour that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors.
Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and
won by them. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the
Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical
apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been
reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies
fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men
and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable. Brightlord
Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his
brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called
The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient
times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own
sanity. Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan
seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic,
Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning,
Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft,
her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and
the true cause of the war. The result of more than ten years of
planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the
opening movement of The Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in
the making. Speak again the ancient oaths: Life before death.
Strength before weakness. Journey before Destination. And return to
men the Shards they once bore. The Knights Radiant must stand
again. The story continues in The Way of Kings: Part Two.
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a
thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear while
the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, a
divinely invincible leader. Hope is long lost, until a terribly
scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa in the depths of the most hellish
prison and discovered he has the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant
thief and natural leader, Kelsier will turn his talents to the
ultimate caper: one with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Only
he's not just planning the greatest heist in history, he's plotting
the overthrow of a divine despot. Kelsier recruited the
underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers,
each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish
a high-stakes challenge. But even with the best criminal crew ever
assembled, Kel's plan looks like a long shot, until luck brings a
ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa
orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to
expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will
have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of
which she never dreamed.
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All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving
she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the
truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumours of
his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle
against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and
attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's
sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could
happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her
planet, she heard the stars - and it was terrifying. What she
learned turned her world upside down. Everything Spensa's been
taught is a lie. But Spensa also learned a few things about herself
- and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if
she needs to. Praise for Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times
Bestselling Reckoners series: 'Another win for Sanderson . . . he's
simply a brilliant writer' Patrick Rothfuss 'Action-packed' EW.com
'Compelling . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough
for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic
reveals he has in store' AV Club
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Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An
alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from
the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's
only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the
skies. Pilots have become the heroes of what's left of the human
race. Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them; of soaring
above Earth and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined
with her father's - a pilot who was killed years ago when he
abruptly deserted his team, placing Spensa's chances of attending
flight school somewhere between slim and none. No one will let
Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to
fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. They've doubled
their fleet, making Spensa's world twice as dangerous . . . but
their desperation to survive might just take her skyward . . .
Praise for Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times Bestselling
Reckoners series: 'Another win for Sanderson . . . he's simply a
brilliant writer' Patrick Rothfuss 'Action-packed' EW.com
'Compelling . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough
for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic
reveals he has in store' AV Club
In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling
Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return
of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst
for vengeance. Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting
victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the
violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and
in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen
to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While
on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin
Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly
kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. Nestled in
the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru,
Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of
the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its
depths. And Dalinar realises that his holy mission to unite his
homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the
nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and
stand together?and unless Dalinar himself can confront that
past?even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent
the end of civilisation. The story continues in Rhythm of War Part
One.
The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans
the world over. The imagination that Sanderson brought to the
series and his skill at marshalling epic storylines and dramatic
action, his ability to create vivid characters made him a natural
choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic wheel of time sequence. But
with Mistborn, his standalone fantasies and his new series, The
Stormlight Archive, Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in
his own fiction. Now he returns to the series that made his name
with a new story set years after the events of Hero of Ages. In a
world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers
wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic
bound up in common metals someone who can burn metals that no-one
has burned before can tip the balance... Sanderson has the knack of
giving the epic fantasy reader exactly what they want. This ability
has thrown him to the forefront of the genre and the dramatic story
within The Alloy of Law shows off this skill to its very best.
Elantris was built on magic and it thrived. But then the magic
began to fade and Elantris began to rot. And now its shattered
citizens face domination by a powerful Imperium motivated by dogged
religious views. Can a young Princess unite the people of Elantris,
rediscover the lost magic and lead a rebellion against the imperial
zealots? Brandon Sanderson's debut fantasy showed his skill as a
storyteller and an imaginer of baroque magical systems to be fully
developed from the start.
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. The story continues in Words of Radiance: Part Two.
'Epic in every sense' - Sunday Times The thirteenth novel in the
Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular
fantasy epics ever published. The Last Battle has started. The
seals on the Dark One's prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is
unravelling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to spill out
of the Blight. Perrin Aybara is haunted by spectres from his past.
To prevail, he must find a way to master the wolf within him or
lose himself to it for ever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for
the most difficult challenge of his life. The Tower of Ghenjei
awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.
The end draws near. It's time to roll the dice. 'With the Wheel of
Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to
reveal' New York Times 'A fantasy phenomenon' SFX The Wheel of Time
The Eye of the World The Great Hunt The Dragon Reborn The Shadow
Rising The Fires of Heaven Lord of Chaos A Crown of Swords The Path
of Daggers Winter's Heart Crossroads of Twilight Knife of Dreams
The Gathering Storm Towers of Midnight A Memory of Light New Spring
(prequel)
In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling
Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return
of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst
for vengeance. Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting
victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the
violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and
in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen
to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While
on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin
Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly
kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. Nestled in
the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru,
Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of
the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its
depths. And Dalinar realises that his holy mission to unite his
homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the
nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and
stand together?and unless Dalinar himself can confront that
past?even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent
the end of civilisation. The story continues in Oathbringer: Part
Two.
'I loved this book. What else is there to say?' Patrick Rothfuss
According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline
Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured
heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world
of storms. And the Voidbringers followed... They came against man
ten thousand times. To help them cope, the Almighty gave men
powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons, known as Shardblades.
Led by ten angelic Heralds and ten orders of knights known as
Radiants, mankind finally won. Or so the legends say. Today, the
only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades, the
possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the
battlefield. The entire world is at war with itself - and has been
for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Kings
strive to win more Shardblades, each secretly wishing to be the one
who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne. On a
world scoured down to the rock by terrifying hurricanes that blow
through every few day a young spearman forced into the army of a
Shardbearer, led to war against an enemy he doesn't understand and
doesn't really want to fight. What happened deep in mankind's past?
Why did the Radiants turn against mankind, and what happened to the
magic they used to wield?
A boxed set of the landmark fantasy from Brandon Sanderson, the man
credited with breathing fresh life into Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF
TIME. An epic fantasy set in a world where the Dark Lord has gained
dominion over the world. A world of ash and pain. A world
subjugated. But a world where magic can be drawn from metals. A
world waiting for a new heroine, a new hope. A word of mouth
bestseller in the USA Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy have now
become a massive hit in the UK, introducing readers to the work of
one of the genre's great talents. A master of world building,
sweeping plots, believable characters and engrossing magic systems.
This is the second half of the epic fantasy novel The Way of Kings.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of
incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that
they have shaped ecology and civilisation alike. Animals hide in
shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the
soil-less ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers
shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten
consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their
Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of
armour that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors.
Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and
won by them. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the
Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical
apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been
reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies
fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men
and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable. Brightlord
Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his
brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called
The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient
times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own
sanity. Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan
seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic,
Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning,
Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft,
her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and
the true cause of the war. The result of more than ten years of
planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the
opening movement of The Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in
the making. Speak again the ancient oaths: Life before death.
Strength before weakness. Journey before Destination. And return to
men the Shards they once bore. The Knights Radiant must stand
again. The story continues in The Way of Kings: Part Two.
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. The story continues in Oathbringer: Part One.
Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun.
They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal
rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who
has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend
Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a
healthy new society in the ashes of an empire.
They have barely begun when three separate armies attack. As the
siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope.
But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well
of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.
It may just be that killing the Lord Ruler was the easy part.
Surviving the aftermath of his fall is going to be the real
challenge.
The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans
the world over. The imagination that Sanderson brought to the
series and his skill at marshalling epic storylines and dramatic
action, his ability to create vivid characters made him a natural
choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic wheel of time sequence. But
with Mistborn, Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own
fiction. Now he returns to the series that made his name with a new
story, building on the incredible success of THE ALLOY OF LAW. The
new Mistborn books move the series into a richly imagined 19th
century analogue world with elements of the wild west mixed with
magic and science. It's a wonderful concoction from a master
storyteller. Sanderson has the knack of giving the epic fantasy
reader exactly what they want. This ability has thrown him to the
forefront of the genre and this novel will take him to the next
level.
Fans of Robert Jordan and George RR Martin alike have found a new
champion of epic fantasy in Brandon Sanderson. And now, in the
first of two sequels to The Alloy Of Law the Sunday Times and New
York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn anda
hunt for a mysterious assassin. The criminal elite of Elendel were
invited to an auction - which became a massacre, when an unknown
assailant slaughtered everyone in attendance. Now Wax and Wayne,
both able to use magic, both lawmen from the rough and ungoverned
frontier territories, are on the case. All the clues suggest the
killer is a rogue kandra - a secretive, almost mythical, figure who
acts from the shadows - called Bleeder . . . and that the governor
is her next target. Bleeder, and the conspiracy behind the
killings, has to be stopped . . . before the city is plunged into
chaos. A brilliant adventure and a gripping story, Shadows of Self
offers fans of The Alloy of Law everything they've been hoping for
and, this being a Brandon Sanderson book, more, much more.
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WARBREAKER is the story of two sisters - who happen to be
princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, a lesser god,
and an immortal trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of
years ago. Theirs is a world in which those who die in glory return
as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital
city. A world transformed by BioChromatic magic, a power based on
an essence known as breath. Using magic is arduous: breath can only
be collected one unit at a time from individual people. But the
rewards are great: by using breath and drawing upon the color in
everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be
performed. Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is a master of
what Tolkien called 'secondary creation,' the invention of whole
worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.
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