The 2010 launch of the series, The Way of Kings,introduced Kaladin Stormblessed, a soldier who, through many trials, becomes a leader of the Knights Radiant. Each novel focuses on an arc of a central character.

Rhythm of War is the fourth in The Stormlight Archives, an epic series of the world of Roshar, where humans and parshendi, the indigenous people of the world, are at war. “I always wanted to do one of those myself.”Īnd Sanderson definitely has followed through on that ambition. He’s long been a fan of big epics: “I grew up on Anne McCaffrey and Robert Jordan and these really great, meaty epic fantasy series, which are my first love,” he told Den of Geek in an interview last year. One thing that occasionally makes doorstoppers easier to handle is when they come out in paperback, reducing the sheer weight of the novel, which means that Brandon Sanderson’s paperback release of Rhythm of War, which hits bookstore shelves on October 26, is perfectly timed to make the best use of the longer nighttime hours.įew people would challenge the assertion that Sanderson is a master of doorstopper fantasy. They can be a challenge to hold, and even more challenging to bind so that they don’t fall apart, but they can also be oh-so-satisfying to read. Doorstopper fantasy, sometimes referred to as “ big fat fantasy,” or even just “ big books,” are tomes that typically hit over 500 pages, and they’re often part of a series of similarly lengthy installments.

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