The Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings : Book One of the Stormlight Archive (Series #1) (CD-Audio)

from bhss_book_club

Brandon Sanderson's epic novel, The Way of Kings, is quite a fantasy novel. Number one (of ten!) planned in his new series, The Stormlight Archive, he tells the tales of four people; a reluctant assassin, a surgeon forced into battle, a thief who works under the guise of a scholar, and a warlord ...

from DuncanMoron

"The Way of Kings", written by Brandon Sanderson, is just a touch over 1,000 pages long. The entire time I am reading it I was thinking, is this too much. It just kept going and going, running into so much detail. Not that it was boring in any part, it was just so much. Do we really need all the ...

from bhss_book_club

Brandon Sanderson's epic novel, The Way of Kings, is quite a fantasy novel. Number one (of ten!) planned in his new series, The Stormlight Archive, he tells the tales of four people; a reluctant assassin, a surgeon forced into battle, a thief who works under the guise of a scholar, and a warlord ...

from VictoriaStrauss

I've gotten out of the habit of reading Fat Fantasy--the storylines/worlds/characters often seem too familiar, and it often feels like too much effort to trudge through hundreds of pages only to wind up a third of the way (or less) through the story. So I wasn't planning on reading this book at a...

from Queensowntalia

Hugh in size and equally huge in story, 'Way of Kings' equals Sanderson's previous efforts both in story scope, readability and utter genius. I was hooked within the first two pages and I feel anyone else who enjoys a good epic fantasy will be too. The base of the plot seems to center around two ...