The Way of Kings: The first book of the breathtaking epic Stormlight Archive from the worldwide fantasy...

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Brandon Sanderson

The Way of Kings

The first book of the breathtaking epic Stormlight Archive from the worldwide fantasy sensation...

Brandon Sanderson

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Gollancz
30 March 2021

Fantasy

Series: Stormlight Archive

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and worldwide sensation Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive, begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

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 civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless 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 armor 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 over 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.

By: Brandon Sanderson
Imprint: Gollancz
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 66mm
Weight: 1.424kg
ISBN: 9781398703629
ISBN 10: 1398703621
Series: Stormlight Archive
Pages: 1008
Publication Date: 30 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brandon Sanderson is a Number One New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller, and a David Gemmell and Hugo Award winner, his novels have sold more than 40 million copies around the world. He is most famous for his epic fantasy series The Stormlight Archive and The Mistborn Saga; his work also includes the Skyward science fiction series, the Legion spy sequence, and The Reckoners superhero novels. In addition to creating his own landmark series, he was chosen by Robert Jordan's estate to complete The Wheel of Time , now an internationally successful series on Amazon Prime.

Reviews for The Way of Kings: The first book of the breathtaking epic Stormlight Archive from the worldwide fantasy sensation

I loved this book. What else is there to say? - Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind, on The Way of Kings Sanderson is a master of hooking the reader in the first few pages, and once again he doesn't disappoint. Fans and lovers of epic fantasy will find the ending satisfying, yet will eagerly await the next volume - Library Journal, on The Way of Kings