Warbreaker

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Call Number: Fantasy / Sanderson, Brandon, Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Sanderson, Brandon
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
By using "breath" and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.

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Adding color to the world submitted by astephe6 on January 1, 2014, 2:00pm The book was recommended to me in an airport by a stranger. He was reading it as our plane was delayed. It was a different book for me but I really enjoyed it. Great character development. You grow with them and really understand how their decisions are effected. I love the concept of color.

Amazing author, amazing book submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 12, 2018, 8:48pm The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is that Sanderson's _Mistborn_ trilogy is so outstanding that there needs to be room for those to be better than this. But really, I'd give this 4 1/2 stars or more easily if the rating system allowed.

Sanderson is amazing at creating new worlds with new rules. You know how there are dwarves and elves all over in the fantasy world? That's because Tolkien made a new world with these new races. Well, Sanderson makes new worlds like this, too. They have breadth and depth. The characters are complex and you can watch them grow (or be confronted by life and choose not to).

This particular story is told around two royal daughters, a god, and a sentient sword. But one princess has been proper and trained for a task, then is passed over for it. The other princess was allowed to break convention, then finds herself thrust into a world she never expected. And the god highly doubts that he is one.

But besides the characters' journeys, which are fantastic, is the way that the clues to what is really happening are laid throughout the story. We see and hear and know things that we have no idea are part of some larger puzzles. That's another piece that Sanderson excels at: having his worlds be so complete that the pieces are laid throughout the story in completely natural ways. He just tells the story as it unfolds, and we get some of the background later when the telling is more natural (as opposed to authors who spend the first three chapters giving you all the background, then tell the straight story).

I tell you, this book was excellent. *Almost* as good as his _Mistborn_ books.

ETA: Jan. 2019 Upgrading this to a definite 5 stars. This book is simply amazing, for all the reasons I wrote above and because it hold up years later and on a subsequent read.