The first is a mysterious young warrior named Kaladin, who gave up a promising career as a surgeon to join the military in search of honour and glory. The Way of Kings primarily follows three characters. In The Way of Kings, Sanderson is taking the planning and writing skills he polished through the Mistborn and Wheel of Time series and applying them to a stunning new and massive canvas. Martin and Robin Hobb in the pantheon of fantasy greats. With The Stormlight Archive, Sanderson is taking his first, masterly step into a journey that will likely take him more than a decade to complete and will see his name listed alongside Jordan, Tolkien, George R. This book is nothing less than Sanderson’s first step in attempting to equal Jordan’s masterpiece The Wheel of Time. I mention all of this to help a reader to understand what they are picking up when they buy The Way of Kings. But as I wrote in my review of Sanderson’s first step in completing the series, The Gathering Storm, Sanderson’s planning and writing skills are up to the task of giving fans a satisfactory closure to Jordan’s masterpiece. Fantasy fans commonly compare reading the series to being addicted to crack cocaine. It’s hard to imagine a more sprawling and complex fantasy series than the Wheel of Time – or a more accessible one. It is also this ability to plan that Sanderson has brought to his other major fantasy initiative to date: Finishing Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, following the author’s untimely death prior to its conclusion. When you finish the final Mistborn book, you walk away stunned that Sanderson had referred to and explained events right in the first pages of the first book in the series in the closing chapter of the third. And I felt at the time that it highlighted one of Sanderson’s strongest traits as a writer: His ability to plan. I wrote of that series after finishing it that it was one of modern fantasy’s best trilogies. After breaking into the scene with the stand-alone novel Elantris in 2005, Sanderson went on to publish the three-book Mistborn series. And what an opener this is.Īnyone who has even a cursory interest in fantasy literature can’t have missed Sanderson’s entrance into the scene over the past half-decade. Review The Way of Kings is the first book in an ambitious new ten-book fantasy series, The Stormlight Archive, by established fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson.
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