The Stormlight Archive · Book 1
The Way of Kings
- Published
- 31 August 2010
- Pages
- 1008
- ISBN-13
- 9781427209764
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Way of Kings is the book that opens Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, published in August 2010 at 1,008 pages. It's the natural place to begin the series, which continues with Words of Radiance and is planned to run to ten novels across two five-book arcs.
Its place in The Stormlight Archive
The Way of Kings is book 1 in the The Stormlight Archive series. It is followed by Words of Radiance. See the full The Stormlight Archive reading order.
The Stormlight Archive is Brandon Sanderson's flagship epic, set on Roshar — a world scoured by apocalyptic highstorms, where plants retract like anemones, armies war over gemstones that hold the storms' light, and ten legendary orders of Knights Radiant fell into ruin so long ago that their powers have passed into myth. The Way of Kings (2010) braids three lives together: Kaladin, a surgeon's son turned enslaved bridge-runner who refuses to let his men die; Shallan, a scholar whose scholarship is a front for…
Editions
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