He is a truly complex and deep character. Kaladin also has a really great heart to protect those he cares about and is incredible with a spear. All it did was make me root for him all the more. Could somewhat understand his thinking and the rational behind it. Even though I’ve never gone through that I could feel Kaladin’s emotions. From what I’ve heard from others who have experience with it, Sanderson does a really good job of going through the mindset of someone with depression. Sanderson does a good job of showing a realistic view of someone who is broken. The struggles Kaladin goes through including emotional turmoil, physical suffering, and betrayal after betrayal were what made Kaladin so interesting to follow. We get a lot more character development from him than anyone else in this book because we are able to see his back story through interlude chapters. The amount of named characters in this story is vast, but the main 3 POVs will be the ones that I will focus on Kaladin Stormblessed, Shallon Davar, and Dalinar Kholin. In my opinion, one of Brandon Sanderson’s biggest strengths is writing compelling characters. However, because of my mixed up thoughts on this one I decided to do something I’ve never done before and do my review as a list of 4 pros and 1 con. This second time around I really enjoyed it! The problems I had the first time around weren’t so prevalent because I already knew much of the world and could just relax and enjoy the ride. The first time I read The Way of Kings I enjoyed the overall plot and story, but felt overwhelmed and the middle section felt a lot like work. As I’m sure some of you know from my Twitter account this was a reread for me. I finished this book a few days ago, but have been struggling to write a review. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Īcross the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. 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.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. 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. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike.
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