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Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

4 reviews

haroldtheboogie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

chloe_acceber's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I found this one much easier to get into compared to Way of Kings. I adore the primary character of this book and I loved getting more of her backstory. The world building is so incredible and the way literally everything is connected just blows my mind! So well thought out and planned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Misogyny, Slavery, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sab7800's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

v171's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

WHEW finally. Sanderson does it again with another fantastic, fast-paced, intriguing installment of the Stormlight Archive. If you liked Way of Kings, you'll get everything you wanted and more in Word of Radiance. Many of my same praises and criticisms hold true for this book, but both dialed a bit more up to 11. The setting and world building is just *chef's kiss*. I can't get over how in love with this world I am. The cultures and people are all fully realized and interesting. I really enjoyed learning more about the Parshendi culture. Sanderson did a phenomenal job at creating both a rich yet wholly alien society that was a joy to learn about. The characters are written well and have very solid arcs, even if I didn't find some of their voices to be fully distinct.

I'd say my biggest complaint is with pacing. Way of Kings had some minor pacing issues, but I couldn't help but feel that the pacing was very lopsided in this book. For being almost 1100 pages, it is almost comical how much action was packed into the final 50 pages. I found many chapters in the beginning and middle of the book to be needlessly drawn out and uninteresting. In fact, entire chapters likely could have been cut without anything critical lost. The final 100 pages had a lot of non-stop action, which was great and very much understandable for any adventure book. But the final pages also had a TON of exposition that I feel would have been better suited peppered throughout than offloaded all at once. It was jarring to switch between fast paced scenes with long exposition conversations that didn't need to occur in the final pages. For this reason, some of the character decisions felt rushed and undeveloped at the end when it could have easily been addressed in the slower chapters earlier on.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this book. I supposed I was just expecting more of an improvement on the issues that the first book had. Regardless, I'm super excited to dive into the next one 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Minor: Trafficking