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Warbreaker: A Cosmere Novel - Hardcover
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Warbreaker: A Cosmere Novel
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- Feels
- Adventurous, Funny, Hopeful
- Kind of story
- Epic fantasy
- About
- Identity, Power, Faith, Family
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 2 of 5. A little dark
- Romance
- A subplot
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Featured in our reading guide: Standalone Fantasy Novels: Great Books With No Series Required
Brandon Sanderson's standalone entry point to the Cosmere, with no ten-book commitment required.
Shelf note: The Sanderson we hand to people who aren't sure they want a Sanderson. One book, a whole story, and a talking sword you won't forget.
In Hallandren, breath is currency. Every person is born with one, and it can be given away, sold, or hoarded. Those who collect enough can Awaken objects, cloth, even corpses, and command them. The wealthiest hold thousands. The gods hold more.
Two sisters from the rival kingdom of Idris sit at the center of it. Siri has been sent to marry the God King as a peace offering. Vivenna, the sister who was supposed to go, follows after her, determined to stage a rescue with the help of mercenaries who trade in the very magic she was raised to find blasphemous.
Meanwhile Lightsong, a god who doesn't believe in his own divinity, starts pulling at the threads of a murder in the Court of Gods and finds the answers uncomfortably close to home.
Warbreaker is where a lot of readers start with Sanderson, and for good reason: it's a complete story in one volume, with one of his sharpest magic systems and a sentient sword named Nightblood that fans have been quoting for fifteen years. Characters from this book later surface in The Stormlight Archive, but you don't need to have read a page of it to follow this one.
Details
- Author: Brandon Sanderson
- Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
- Publisher: Tor
- Published: June 9, 2009
- ISBN: 9780765320308
- Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.9 in
Praise
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Not only has Sanderson drawn a freshly imagined world and its society, he has also given us a plot full of unexpected twists and turns... Anyone looking for a different and refreshing fantasy novel will be delighted by this exceptional tale of magic, mystery and the politics of divinity.
Michael Moorcock
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Epic fantasy heavyweight Sanderson pens a powerful stand-alone tale of unpredictable loyalties, dark intrigue and dangerous magic... Sanderson melds complex, believable characters, a marvelous world and thoughtful, ironic humor into an extraordinary and highly entertaining story.
Publishers Weekly on Warbreaker
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Sanderson again demonstrates his capacity for handling large and complex themes while creating believable characters.
Library Journal on Warbreaker
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