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Rhythm of War

By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
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Summary

The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the sensational fourth book in Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition's envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.

Other books by Brandon Sanderson

The Cosmere

The Stormlight Archive
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Novella)
Oathbringer
Rhythm of War
Wind and Truth

The Mistborn Saga
Mistborn
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
The Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
The Bands of Mourning
The Lost Metal

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deep lore and good depiction of trauma

After relistening to all four full books in the Stormlight archive series in the last 3 weeks, I decided to review with them all fresh in mind.

Sanderson has recently become my absolute favourite author. His worldbuilding is excellent and engaging, his magic-system with the surges, fabrials and shards is thoughtprovoking and deep. In this book, Sanderson expands hugely with explanations of the magic and laws of Roshar (and by proxy, the Cosmere).
For some people this book may be too slow to keep interest up. Especially after the previous books, who in my opinion had a much faster pace. For me, this was excellent. I loved the focus on exploring and explaning the fabrials, lights, tones, spren, fused and listener/singer culture. Not to mention the characters and their journey of growth.
Some reviews I read before reading this book noted that some of the characters (primarily Kaladin) were depressing to follow. I find myself agreeing with that statement, but not in a bad way. The way battleshock and PTSD is depicted is humanising and relatable in ways many pieces of media fail. His journey and destination was bitter and trudging. I want to say bittersweet.
All in all, easily one of the 10 best books I've ever read.

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the perfect next installment

the narrator's were, as usual for this series, incredible! the book itself is an excellent addition to the storm light archive, I couldn't stop listening even when I should have been doing other things

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🤔👏👏👏

I so wanted to love this instalment of the saga and to my relief I wasn't disappointed. Kept me gripped and wanting to press play every time I put it on pause fanbeepingtastic

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Great story telling as usual

Another great cosmere book. Wasn't as excited for Shelan chapters breaking the pacing this book.

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Brilliant

Love the mental health theme. Most fun listening to a book in quite a while.

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4th book, great as usual, looking forward to book 5 in let's guess 2023.

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Amazing. Of course.

This was sensational. A rollercoaster. By now would we expect anything else from Brandon Sanderson? Of course not.

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Journey Before Destination

This is the first Stormlight Archive book I got at launch and I'm devastated I have to wait so long until the next one.

Bar a couple of data corruptions early on in the book, I thoroughly enjoyed this as much as the last 3 (and the 2 novellas!).

A great story being told here.

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Just wow

Thisguy knows how to write great books!
Couldnt stop listening, especially for the last half of the book.

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Loved the book

I loved the narration and the story can’t wait for another book so I can get back into this world again.

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