His writing embodies the first Ideal that his characters strive for - "Journey before Destination. It is Sanderson's genius that he provides the reader with a broad social and geographical history, makes them seemingly comfortable in the skin of the character, and then pulls the rug from under their feet via the most surprising twists. The Way of Kings 10th Anniversary Leatherbound Edition Celebrate 10 years of The Stormlight Archive with Brandon Sanderson Dragonsteel Books Created by Dragonsteel Entertainment 29,778 backers pledged 6,788,517 to help bring this project to life.
The reader spends enough time with the characters to know their quirks, their strengths, their fears, their moral code, their personalities - enough to unconsciously inhabit the narrative and (most importantly) anticipate what follows, if not in precise narrative terms, at least in terms of broad strokes.
2 The novel was published on August 31, 2010, by Tor Books. However, it would do so at the expense of our understanding of these events and their context - the world and the people that inhabit it. The Way of Kings is an epic fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson and the first book in The Stormlight Archive series. Kings could easily follow a more popular approach and be a third of its length, marching us through the same important events, one cliffhanger after another. Sanderson invests immensely into world-building, and invites the readers to do the same.
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