Sanderson’s plot twists really blew me away, he whipped them out and threw them at me with such skill and precision I wanted to cry. Instead of making the story seem overly complex, the snapshots are so tantalising they leave the listener wanting more. We have no idea what’s really behind all the wars and fighting, we understand that we’re only being given a tiny snapshot of the huge, complicated world that is Roshar.
Some characters we know very little of but I found that their chapters really added to the sense of apprehension. The story regularly switches to another characters perspective, we get to know some better than others. The audiobook is descriptive and detailed where it needs to be, when describing some of the bizarre creatures for example, but Sanderson doesn’t yarn on and on about landscapes and food (unlike some authors i’ve reviewed). The main sub-plots appear in the interludes and although brief, give us an idea that there is something mysterious going on and that everything is about to come to a head. Sanderson doesn’t waste time getting bogged down in unnecessary details or sub-plots, he put in the exact amount that was needed to make a good story. There is almost never a dull moment, I honestly can’t believe this audiobook is 45 hours long because it just went so quickly. The Way of Kings is everything you could want in an epic fantasy audiobook, great world building, amazing characters, magic and mystery. Sanderson has created an amazing world, so richly detailed that I can visualise it easily even in all it’s weirdness.
This is the best story i’ve heard in ages. Drop everything and go and get this audiobook. Her research hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. Though Shallan genuinely loves learning, she plans a daring theft. Fascinated by ancient text The Way of Kings, troubled by visions of ancient times, he doubts his sanity.Īcross the ocean, Shallan trains under eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece Jasnah. In one such war on ruined Shattered Plains, slave Kaladin struggles to save his men and fathom leaders who deem them expendable, in senseless wars where ten armies fight separately against one foe.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Wars are fought for them, and won by them. In centuries since ten orders of Knights fell, their Shardblade swords and Shardplate armor still transform men into near-invincible warriors. Animals and plants retract cities are built in shelter. Roshar is a world of stone swept by tempests that shape ecology and civilization. And return to men the Shards they once bore.
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