From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words
of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the
immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.
Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave,
Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a
controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the
king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly
uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master
remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.
The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the
world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and
elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar,
widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role
in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much
deeper motives.
Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite
being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible
burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and
the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she
needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there
proves more difficult than she could have imagined.
Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are
making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks,
their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader,
Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very
supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for
Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous
as they are incalculable.
Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson
The Cosmere
**
The Stormlight Archive**
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Novella)
Oathbringer
The Mistborn trilogy
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series
Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of Mourning
Collection
Arcanum Unbounded
Other Cosmere novels
Elantris
Warbreaker
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
**The Rithmatist series
**The Rithmatist
Other books by Brandon Sanderson
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The Reckoners**
Steelheart
Firefight
Calamity
