Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive, #3) (Cosmere Universe)

by Brandon Sanderson

The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, at the top of his game.

In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe whose numbers are as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: the enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shalladin Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar is too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together—and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past—even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.

Reviewed by moraa on

5 of 5 stars

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by far my favourite instalment in The Stormlight Archive.
why, you ask?

1. In a world of such magnitude and complex characters, I enjoyed the chance to understand more of them than I had in the previous books.

2. Sanderson is a master of the climax – almost 200 pages of non-stop action (and a satisfying pay off too, if my still shaking hands are anything to go by).

3. Sanderson is a master of the fight scene.

I laughed, I cried, and I bit into my tongue instead of that piece of chicken I was supposed to be having for supper, see you on November 17th folks!

I will remember those who have been forgotten.

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