Wind and Truth

This book might be part of the The Stormlight Archive series.

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.

Dalinar Kholin has challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions, and the Knights Radiant and the nations of Roshar have a mere ten days to prepare for the worst.

The fate of the entire world - and the Cosmere at large - hangs in the balance.

2 Auflagen

Taschenbuch, 1329 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 6. Dezember 2024 von Gollancz veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-1-3996-0132-0
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Fantasy
Epic Fantasy

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Brackmeister hat Wind and Truth von Brandon Sanderson besprochen (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

Was wirklich wichtig ist

5 Sterne

Ja, das Buch hat alles, was für episches Fantasy wichtig ist, aber für mich war das beherrschende Thema, die Frage der einzelnen Charaktere, was ihnen wichtig ist. Teils jede(r) für sich, teils gemeinsam. So ist auch die alles entscheidende Konfrontation am Ende m.E. gar nicht der fürs Genre sonst typische Endkampf. Wobei ich weder habe kommen sehen, wer als Odiums Champion gegen Dalinar antritt, noch wie dieses Aufeinandertreffen ausgeht. Ich fand das Buch super, es fokussierte sehr schön auf die einzelnen Personen. Wer sie sind und wer sie sein wollen.

nemo@ramblingreaders.org hat Wind and Truth von Brandon Sanderson besprochen (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

Good finale, but a little underwhelming

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Inhaltswarnung Full Cosmere Spoilers

My favorite books in the Stormlight Archives are the first 3. The series really shines at "EPIC" character moments, and snowballing through them towards the ending. However, as the series has progressed, characters have gotten especially powerful and that makes conflict much harder to showcase. There's not much that can scare or threaten the characters by the start of the 5th book, and that results in the conflicts coming from headspace instead of meatspace.

As a result, the strongest arcs in this book are from the "weakest" characters - Adolin and Venli. Kaladin and Shallan's arcs cover much of the same ground we see them tread in the previous book - dealing with trauma, self-reflections, (self-sabotage in the case of Shallan). Dalinar's arc is that of learning, and Navani doesn't get to do much. Szeth's arc is lovely to read, and the most telling.

However, at times it feels like we're rushing through plot at too fast a pace to make sure that the reader gets all the knowledge they need. Felt like some of the flashbacks (Dalinar/Szeth) should have been part of previous books somehow.

I was unprepared for the time-dilation twist at the end, and that gives me hope for the series - it keeps everyone on their toes, with Roshar rushing towards war.