the stormlight archive – Cannonball Read 17

“But in his experience, being bad with names was like being bad with swords. Most people could learn if they tried hard enough.”

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

March 16, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

original hot take Okay fine I’ll give it a 5 although I have to go back and rebase across the works. In other news, 3am reading indicates lessons of adulthood never learned. Longer review I don’t think this actually is a five star for me, I think if I had to go back and think through the books it would be: Way of Kings 4* Words of Radiance 5* Oathbringer 4* Rhythm of War 5* Wind and Truth 4* There’s too much that went on in this […]

“We’re going to try something new.”

Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) by Brandon Sanderson

December 30, 2020 by narfna 3 Comments

What a wonderful book. I don’t know why I’m still surprised at this point at how good a book in this series turned out to be. I love all of these books, but there was something extra-wrenching about this one, as we really start to dig into not only the escalating mythology but the characters’ heads and hearts in ways that are only really possible because Sanderson has spent 3,500 pages before this providing the world’s most epic foundation. This is why I love epic […]

A re-read before Rhythm of War.

Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

December 29, 2020 by narfna 2 Comments

Honestly not sure what I’m about to type, because I don’t want to do a full review. I hadn’t re-read this book since it first came out and I knew I barely remembered it, and even the detailed summaries over on the Coppermind wouldn’t be good enough for to prep for book four. It really helped me when this book came out in 2017 that I had books one and two fresh in my mind from a recent re-read, so I got the audiobook from […]

Ostraconophobics Beware

February 4, 2018 by Quorren 2 Comments

It’s hard knowing where to begin with a Sanderson book. His name on a cover means that whatever you are about to commit to reading is going to be sweeping and epic. Even writing a summary would probably put me at a 2000 word count. Since I have no idea where to begin, I’m just going to jot down my thoughts in some bullet points. I can’t stand the Alethi. I know that to have a plot, there must be conflict and for the Alethi, […]

Crying, waiting, hoping

February 3, 2018 by Shibuyama Leave a Comment

The world is ending, as worlds in novels are wont to do. Which is fair; that’s pretty good motivation to get the action rolling. But what has consistently struck me about the Stormlight Archives series setting is that it feels like a world, meticulously crafted with distinct regions, cultures, and creatures. In the first two books, Sanderson has used a handful of individuals to lay out a fantastical setting with warring factions, lost histories, well-defined magic, and personal entanglements. Oathbringer picks up right where Words […]

Three books in a row, this series continues to be ridiculously good.

December 30, 2017 by narfna Leave a Comment

It has never before taken me longer than a week to read a Brandon Sanderson book, and that’s including the previous two 1,000+ page behemoths in this series. But it took me almost three weeks to get through Oathbringer. This more than anything is proof that reading a book fast does not necessarily mean that it’s good, and reading one slowly doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy it. That’s a new thing for me. Usually I inhale books like I do my food, fast and without mercy. […]

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