A Weighty Tome: 2024 Challenge: The Way of Kings

[Eldarwen]

There is the BOM coming up and my 500+ pager for book club at the end of the month, so I wouldn't be able to start before the 28th.

Anytime after that is good for me.

Start on Halloween? ;-)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Sure 👍

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

October is == BREAK / CATCH UP MONTH ==.

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For those of you who would like to join a buddy read for the second book of the Stormlight Archive series, a thread has been created

HERE.

[The other Sandy]

I finished!!!

Overall I liked it, but when I put it down, I never had the urge to pick it up again.

You know how every book has something that has to happen for the book to end? Like, when the detective figures out whodunnit, the book ends; when the quest is completed, the book ends; when the MCs declare their undying love for each other, the book ends; etc.? Never at any point in this giant doorstop did I ever have a feeling of what would have to happen for the book to end. I'm not sure Sanderson did either, because the book didn't end, so much as stop.

I was ready to write off the rest of the series, but then Book 5 threw 6 major plot twists at me, and now I'm going to have to read the next book dammit.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Book two is really hard to put down. So much information in book one is really setting things up. I’ve only finished the first part of book one but it has been enthralling so far!

[The other Sandy]

If an author needs over 1000 pages as basically a prologue, then he has a real pacing issue.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Oh I didn’t find it prologue-ish. Sorry if it came across that way.
I was still engaged with book one … as I said it really went by very quickly from part 3. you just dont realise how much of it all becomes more relevant in book two

[Sammy]

So I've been re-reading this one the past couple of days (you're so right Karen, the audio is not great! So back to the kindle for me too).

I have to say I really enjoy Sandersons style and his ideas and world building tend to be so very good.

And then there are those details that just make me smile. Like the female scribes adding secret notes to the books they're writing on behalf of the illiterate men. Made me chuckle, and I just love the idea of all those annotated books in that world and the solidarity of the women in never giving it away.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Omg I loved that, too Sammy. I’m assuming it will become even more important in later books all those sender notes, too

[Sammy]

I am sure you're right. The thing with Sanderson is that he likes to add lots and lots of pages to his books, but he rarely does so needlessly 😆

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

nominations for 2025 are now open!

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2025 WEIGHTY TOME VOTING IS OPEN

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