Words of Radiance
(The Stormlight Archive #2)
By Brandon Sanderson
Published Year: 2014
Page Count: 1303 pages
Medium Used: Paperback [Mass Paperback Edition]
Genre : High Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Magic, 2025-read.
Rating : 4/5 š„³š„³š„³š„³
Some Spoilers Ahead!!
Jasnah and Shallan are traveling on a ship that is carrying them to the Shattered Plains. Jasnah makes a match between Shallan Davar and Adolin Kholin, cousin to the king and son of Dalinar. They are also about to reveal some major findings from their research into the nature and return of Voidbringers and the magical city Urithiru. But enroute, pirates raid the ship and Shallan escapes presuming Jasnah to be dead. She uses her Lightweaving capacity to reach the Shattered Plains and later on to become a trusted member of a shadow group Ghostbloods. She learns of the secret desires of Brightwood Amaram to bring back voidbringers and desolation into the world.
Dalinar is intent on setting out to make either a total peace or a final war with the Parshendi. When his endeavor for peace fails, he sets out for an all war. During highstorms, his dreams and visions continue with a new remaining days count plastered to his walls. He sets up Adolin to win shards from other highprinces in the hope that they would align with his idea. Meanwhile, the Parshendi learn of a way to summon high storms using magical chanting. They plan to use it against the full force of Dalinar that is coming their way.
Kaladin is made the captain of the royal family bodyguards. He and the other bridge four members practice long and also start training men from other bridge numbers. Kaladin encounters the assassin in white and learns that he has powers of a Windrunner and a SurgeBinder - the abilities Knights Radiant have possessed. When Dalinar announces that he is to reestablish the Knights Radiant, he knows he will be in it. He gets entangled in a ploy that results in his loss of powers and Syl as well. When he corrects his thinking and acts accordingly, they come back. Towards the end, he fights the assassin in white, Szeth and almost kills him.
The almighty is dead and his corpse remains. Some other lower God who is entrusted with maintaining the world and peace, regulating night and day reveals to Dalinar that he will be the leader of the Knights Radiant and gives him the powers of BondSurging. Thus ends the book. I felt, at times, that the sequence of events are too much in favor of the main characters. That there is no real danger to them because somehow they will wriggle out of it. Towards the end, it became a bit too predictable and the fight sequence between Kaladin and Szeth felt dragging. Otherwise, I loved the book!!
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