Brandon Sanderson

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin has challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions, and the Knights Radiant and the nations of Roshar have a mere 10 days to prepare for the worst. The fate of the entire world—and the Cosmere at large—hangs in the balance. Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere The Stormlight Archive ● The Way of Kings ● Words of Radiance ● Edgedancer (novella) ● Oathbringer ● Dawnshard (novella) ● Rhythm of War The Mistborn Saga The Original Trilogy ● Mistborn ● The Well of Ascension ● The Hero of Ages Wax and Wayne ● The Alloy of Law ● Shadows of Self ● The Bands of Mourning ● The Lost Metal Other Cosmere novels ● Elantris ● Warbreaker ● Tress of the Emerald Sea ● Yumi and the Nightmare Painter ● The Sunlit Man Collection ● Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series ● Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians ● The Scrivener's Bones ● The Knights of Crystallia ● The Shattered Lens ● The Dark Talent ● Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson) Other novels ● The Rithmatist ● Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds ● The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England Other books by Brandon Sanderson The Reckoners ● Steelheart ● Firefight ● Calamity Skyward ● Skyward ● Starsight ● Cytonic ● Skyward Flight (with Janci Patterson) ● Defiant At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Five of the Stormlight Archive

Wind and Truth

Annabelle Gauthier

“I’m so wrong, so very often. Then when I choose, I hate my choices. How can you trust me?”

Szeth wasn't certain he wanted to keep living. Yet Nin said they wanted to make Szeth immortal? 

Szeth was numb from that revelation. He would have welcomed laughter or tears, or really any emotion other than the crushing pressure. That grip on his heart, squeezing. Making of him a ball of stone.

If I were to give you the fuel with which to set yourself aflame, the resulting bonfire would then become my fault and not yours. For we all know what you are.

A warning," he said, frowning. "Syl, is the wind ... alive?”

weakest book so far. also, revoked 1 star because wdym my BABIES ONLY SPENT LIKE 10 PAGES TOGETHER 😭😭😭😭 dalinar final confrontation with odium felt tad anticlimactic me thinks

hana

Daphne Li-Chen

as a book as part of the stormlight archive only, with no consideration of cosmere level information in the book:

this book was a great conclusion to the first arc. It took many characters in many good directions - generally the terminus of many of their arcs. It gave some definition to a few characters that didn’t get the chance to have it so far by putting them in interesting scenarios or giving them complex challenges, which was unexpected to me in a “finale” that I would think would focus on the couple of very main characters we’ve had so far, and I enjoyed it immensely. It fleshed out one of my favorite cosmere characters ever.

Some parts of the book are a little tackier than usual. Some of the stuff kaladin goes through for instance or has to contend with feels a little more on the nose than it should be, and I hate to admit it but I wasn’t as compelled to read kaladin when he wasn’t going through a series of depressive events

In terms of story beats and events there’s a lot here that is within the realm of expectation when you pick up the book, and a bit here that is totally unexpected. Some stacking of events, things that occurred, the way they occurred was like “oh yeah this is what should happen here” and some of it was like “wow I knew this was going to happen but not like this” and some of it was “wow did not expect this at all”

Gotta say though, it’s not all good stuff. The decision to entrap some of the story’s characters in a ten day vision was bold and I didn’t like it all the time. It exacerbates that feeling of damn not much is happening. 

The ending was great work from him too, unreasonably good conclusions for the events and some of the characters. The benefits of his outlining process really really show themselves as we get callbacks to some of the characters very defining or early moments. His grasp of events and characters starts and ends really distinguishes him

At this point in my reading Sanderson presents a very particular kind of pie that I need to be in a particular mood to eat, unless it happens to be a pie in a series of pies in which I am heavily invested

He released the four secret project books and I didn’t feel particularly compelled to read them until I realised some of them provide some good cosmere info, or new planets within it, etc. once I’m there and I’m reading I’m generally enjoying the work a good 90% of the time, and it rates highly every time. Particularly for the stormlight archive, which is maybe one of the very few pies he sells in his pie shop that is compelling all on its own.

Omar 

as a book as part of the stormlight archive only, with no consideration of cosmere level information in the book:

this book was a great conclusion to the first arc. It took many characters in many good directions - generally the terminus of many of their arcs. It gave some definition to a few characters that didn’t get the chance to have it so far by putting them in interesting scenarios or giving them complex challenges, which was unexpected to me in a “finale” that I would think would focus on the couple of very main characters we’ve had so far, and I enjoyed it immensely. It fleshed out one of my favorite cosmere characters ever.

Some parts of the book are a little tackier than usual. Some of the stuff kaladin goes through for instance or has to contend with feels a little more on the nose than it should be, and I hate to admit it but I wasn’t as compelled to read kaladin when he wasn’t going through a series of depressive events

In terms of story beats and events there’s a lot here that is within the realm of expectation when you pick up the book, and a bit here that is totally unexpected. Some stacking of events, things that occurred, the way they occurred was like “oh yeah this is what should happen here” and some of it was like “wow I knew this was going to happen but not like this” and some of it was “wow did not expect this at all”

Gotta say though, it’s not all good stuff. The decision to entrap some of the story’s characters in a ten day vision was bold and I didn’t like it all the time. It exacerbates that feeling of damn not much is happening. 

The ending was great work from him too, unreasonably good conclusions for the events and some of the characters. The benefits of his outlining process really really show themselves as we get callbacks to some of the characters very defining or early moments. His grasp of events and characters starts and ends really distinguishes him

At this point in my reading Sanderson presents a very particular kind of pie that I need to be in a particular mood to eat, unless it happens to be a pie in a series of pies in which I am heavily invested

He released the four secret project books and I didn’t feel particularly compelled to read them until I realised some of them provide some good cosmere info, or new planets within it, etc. once I’m there and I’m reading I’m generally enjoying the work a good 90% of the time, and it rates highly every time. Particularly for the stormlight archive, which is maybe one of the very few pies he sells in his pie shop that is compelling all on its own.

As always, love the stormlight archives. Very enjoyable and wish it didnt have to end! Considering the significant time gap expected before the next story arc, I was disappointed that some story lines were left dangling…. It also was lacking a certain Epic characteristic that was present in all of the previous books. 

Wind and Truth Book Five of the Stormlight Archive

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