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A review by wanderlustlover
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
5.0
Summer 2021 (May);
I had to read 4 book club books & several of my 36 Fiction/Non-Fiction Bingo Board Challenges ahead of schedule to be able to set aside most of May to devour (and be devoured) by this book. I loved everything about and I remain steadfastly agog that every one of the books in this series has ranked at five stars, while being over 1,000 pages. This series is better than anything in such a long, long time.
What do I even put here without throwing a billion spoilers into this place.
I love madly what was done with Shallan and the three-in-one situations, and even more my heart only grows even bigger for Adolin's acceptance of her wife no matter what shape, face, and place she happens to be in, only wanting to be her stalwart supporter. Kaladin remains a forever favorite and I absolutely trusted Sanderson with the arc he wrote through this book for him, the unexpected place he found himself in, found new people to protect, serve, and defend, as he began to focus on his own healing finally, too.
Also, Maya. I knew it was coming and predicted it from the beginning of the book. The one thing to turn the Honor Spren around as the greatest example of his greatest good & what that could mean for every bearer of a blade from the earlier wars. But. Oh god. It was so well done. And I didn't predict at all the scene in how it happened or what would happen, only the big picture, point person. It was so, so, so good.
Dalinar remains a force to be forever reckoned with, and I love these parallel's and striving that are all of everything between him and The Storm Father. Also, it can't go without saying, it was AMAZING to see Navini get to come into her own during this book in every way possible: learning of her ills, constant striving in the worst of situations, slowly growing the oddest of connections.
Everyone and Jasnah, everything Jasnah, including my flailing about the biggest new thing with Wit. Plus, gosh lets talk about how massively awesome it was to have so much more Wit in the book in one of our locations. I loved it so, so, so much. I, also, loved Jasnah's many ways of making it known she could be just as formidable as a queen as any man who was a king before her. How that both did her good and gave her experience that wounded a part of her (in the right way).
I just. Everything is amazing. Everything.
Everyone needs to be reading this series. Drop everything and do that.
I had to read 4 book club books & several of my 36 Fiction/Non-Fiction Bingo Board Challenges ahead of schedule to be able to set aside most of May to devour (and be devoured) by this book. I loved everything about and I remain steadfastly agog that every one of the books in this series has ranked at five stars, while being over 1,000 pages. This series is better than anything in such a long, long time.
What do I even put here without throwing a billion spoilers into this place.
I love madly what was done with Shallan and the three-in-one situations, and even more my heart only grows even bigger for Adolin's acceptance of her wife no matter what shape, face, and place she happens to be in, only wanting to be her stalwart supporter. Kaladin remains a forever favorite and I absolutely trusted Sanderson with the arc he wrote through this book for him, the unexpected place he found himself in, found new people to protect, serve, and defend, as he began to focus on his own healing finally, too.
Also, Maya. I knew it was coming and predicted it from the beginning of the book. The one thing to turn the Honor Spren around as the greatest example of his greatest good & what that could mean for every bearer of a blade from the earlier wars. But. Oh god. It was so well done. And I didn't predict at all the scene in how it happened or what would happen, only the big picture, point person. It was so, so, so good.
Dalinar remains a force to be forever reckoned with, and I love these parallel's and striving that are all of everything between him and The Storm Father. Also, it can't go without saying, it was AMAZING to see Navini get to come into her own during this book in every way possible: learning of her ills, constant striving in the worst of situations, slowly growing the oddest of connections.
Everyone and Jasnah, everything Jasnah, including my flailing about the biggest new thing with Wit. Plus, gosh lets talk about how massively awesome it was to have so much more Wit in the book in one of our locations. I loved it so, so, so much. I, also, loved Jasnah's many ways of making it known she could be just as formidable as a queen as any man who was a king before her. How that both did her good and gave her experience that wounded a part of her (in the right way).
I just. Everything is amazing. Everything.
Everyone needs to be reading this series. Drop everything and do that.