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Stormlight Archives (1): The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

published: 2010, read: 2/20/23
1008 pages, genre: Fantasy
rating: 7.85/10, normalized: 7.611/10
0.541σ better than average
0.553σ or 0.579/10 better than average in Fantasy genre
0.981σ or 0.949/10 better than average by Brandon Sanderson
0.472σ or 0.534/10 better than average recommended by Charlie J.
Recommended by: Charlie J.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO. I won't sway my rating by the fact that everyone else's is lower, but rather channel that as excitement for the rest of the series. Am stoked.

It's long, but tbh pretty much a page turner throughout. Barring perhaps the second and last 1/8ths of the book, but they're still necessary for exposition. The sideplot is just boring enough to make you excited for the main plot, and even then it's still compelling. The depth of the characters is what you'd expect for a series supposed to be this long.

I really dig that the excuse for the honorable character being dishonorable is that god is fucking dead. Very excited for this series.

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