Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
(The Stormlight Archive, Book 3)
Released: November 14, 2017 | Genre: Epic Fantasy
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In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.
Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.
Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar’s blood-soaked past and stand together―and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past―even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.
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Brandon Sanderson started working on the project that became The Stormlight Archive in the early 2000s, but his original version tried to tell everyone’s story at once. It didn’t work, and he eventually abandoned that version. When he returned to the project years later, he decided each book should focus on the backstory of a different major character.
REVIEW
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
WOW! Simply WOW! 🤯
Oathbringer is the largest book I’ve ever read (over 1,200 pages) and somehow, it still wasn’t enough.
I’ve always loved The Way of Kings and immediately dove into Words of Radiance. After finishing the first two books, I was hesitant about committing to a 10-book series, especially knowing each installment is 1,000+ pages. That all changed with Oathbringer.
This book delivers character-defining moments that make you fall in love with every one of them, worldbuilding on a scale I never thought possible, and battle sequences more intense and cinematic than anything Hollywood could produce. Oathbringer has completely solidified my dedication to the Stormlight Archive.
“Epic” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
