The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) in Goodjer Recommends

Oct 16, 2014 Rebecca (LirilAB) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, stormlight-archive

I started reading this book because it was free on Amazon and I was in the mood for more fantasy. I only vaguely recalled that Sanderson was the author who completed Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, so I really didn't know anything about this author. All I knew was that the book was free and that it had very good ratings and there it was staring at me within my Kindle.

Now I feel like I'm in awe. Yes, it's the first book of a series, but many questions that had been building up in the course ...more

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Dec 28, 2018 Mark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy

It’s been a while since I read any fantasy literature. I’m still trying to find my way through the Malazan series by Erikson. They are a completely different read to this book.

This book reads easily. Sensibly (if that makes sense), compared to the Malazan series.

I first read Sanderson when he completed the Wheel of Time series. I loved that series up to about the seventh book and could not read the rest. They seemed to navel gazey. I did read Sandersons efforts at completing the series after Jo ...more

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Jul 09, 2014 Christopher Mclean rated it it was amazing

Possibly the best epic fantasy story I have ever read! This novel came highly recommended and absolutely lived up to that billing. While it does start off slightly slowly the fantastic writing and perfect world building were more than enough to carry me through and once the story gets moving the twists and revelations really do come on at an amazing pace while the writing continues to be flawless.

I really can't express enough how much I enjoyed this book so here is a quick list of my thoughts:
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