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| Words of Radiance. Book Two. The Stormlight Archive. Brand Sanderson. The Cosmere. Fantasy |
I'm enjoying "Words of Radiance" Book Two of The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.
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.
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.
