Rhythm of War: Brandon Sanderson (STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE)

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When it comes to books I've read and enjoyed, I have a wide-ranging repertoire. My tastes span from Sci-fi to fantasy; from simple tales of idiot heroes to detailed and bounding stories about great change. While Sanderson has been occasionally criticised for his characterisation (I for one could never understand that, especially for this series), no one could ever dispute his mastery over worldbuilding. And Rhythm of War proved that he remains unassailable at the top of his game. He managed to so seamlessly marry technological advances with the magic system that the concepts actually do make sense from real world science point of view. In his interview with Michael Whelan, the artist for the US covers, Sanderson said he approached the worldbuilding in The Stormlight Archive like science fiction instead of traditional fantasy. Even more fascinating is his concept of fractal worldbuilding, where one can opt to only appreciate the overall worldbuilding from a larger scale, or go deeper and discover more complexity and details that bring everything together. To further encapsulate this concept, even the continent of Roshar is shaped like a fractal Julia set. Sorry, I'm digressing as I fangirl over what a totally awesome nerd he is. The "twists." Pretty much the last 7% of the book was complete codswallop. It was not laid out, it did not add drama, it just made me mad about what's about to happen, and confused why we'd spent so much time setting up some other story, if this was the way this book ends. You can bear it. You can remember it. Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years." So good with words. Humans are like persuasionspren. I can’t speak with one of you without being changed.”

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. Don't get me wrong. He is not a bad writer but since there is such little movement of the plots in each book, how many decades will it take Mr. Sanderson to finish this tale? that your actions define you more than your intentions. That your goals and the journey used to attain them must align.”

Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart,The Emperor’s Soul, and Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians. If you’re already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings. There's no space for preparation or time to waste. It starts with a bang and it certainly sets the mood for the rest of the arc.

Syl · Pattern · Wyndle · Glys · Ivory · Timbre · Mayalaran · Stormfather · Nightwatcher · Sibling · Sja-anat The story is science-heavy. Fabrials, light, and sound are a huge focus of the story, and Sanderson explains in detail how they all work, individually and together. Over and over. And over. It bogs the novel down. Since we all go to the same place in the end, the moments we [spend] with each other are the only things that do matter. The times we helped each other.” The primary setting is not a game-of-thrones era; it's post-Game of Thrones, when the warrior seeks to become a ruler and the ice-men you thought might harm your nation become a swarm which will own the world. The game has changed - and the schemers who dominated the previous era come to find just how small they really are.

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Our lives are already in chaos, This is precisely the time to make sweeping changes, when people are already adjusting to a new way of life.” - Jasnah Kholin, Disaster Capitalist Firstborn · The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England · I Hate Dragons · Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine · The Rithmatist This series is one of the only that I have ever read that legitimately makes me shiver from excitement, and gives me tears in my eyes from happiness. This book had several of those moments, and I will forever cherish them as some of the peak moments in fantasy history. Since we all go to the same place in the end, the moments we spent with each other are the only things that do matter. The times we helped each other."

Chapters 7 and 8, which can be listened to here, regarding Kaladin and Moash, as well as new fabrials used by the Fused. I want to tell you more, but I don’t have the space here. I want to talk about the art in the book (it’s ambitious, unlike anything I’ve seen tried in an epic fantasy novel before.) I want to talk about the scope of the series, the distinctive world which is so much larger and more real than anything I’ve worked on before. I want to explain the book. They’re gorgeous, right!? I’ll leave the rest for you to examine yourself. It’s always worth remembering that a lot of people played a role in bringing a book into its final state, especially for a book as massive as Rhythm of War. Kudos to all the people involved! The book started its life many years ago being about a young man who made a good decision. I wrote the entire book that way before realizing I’d done it wrong. So I started over from scratch and had him take the other fork, the more difficult fork. The fork that cast him into some of the worst imaginable circumstances, ground him against the stones of a world where there is no soil or sand on the ground.Legion · Skin Deep · Lies of the Beholder · The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds · Stephen Leeds: Death & Faxes From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began. Following the footsteps of its predecessors, I’m willing to give the superlative Rhythm of War a 6/5 stars rating if I could; this is—for me—unquestionably another masterwork by Brandon Sanderson—one of the master storytellers in epic fantasy. The insanely challenging internal battles conflicts that the characters fought—whether in this book or the previous books—extensively reinforced the point that characters and superbly-written characterizations are the most vital element to my reading experience. The world-building of Roshar and Cosmere are both intricate and meticulously built, and Sanderson’s prose continues to be accessible and impeccably vivid to read. The Rhythm of War have been sung and orchestrated, but this doesn’t mean the time to hum the rhythm of peace has arrived. All the groundwork for the grandiose conclusion to the first sequence in The Stormlight Archive has been prepared, and I have faith that the fifth book in the series—slated to be released in 2023—has a great chance of becoming the undisputed best book of the series. Rhythm of War and The Stormlight Archive is a tremendous marvel for epic fantasy, and it is a series of a lifetime I’m grateful to partake in. Until the next book… Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination. Some people charged toward the goal, running for all they had. Others stumbled. But it wasn’t the speed that mattered. Kaladin · Shallan · Dalinar · Eshonai · Venli · Szeth · Adolin · Renarin · Jasnah · Navani · Lift · Moash · Taravangian · Taln