This could have been an awful love triangle in the hands of someone else, but Sanderson never lets it get there. Sanderson also breaks a ton of cliches with Shallan, Adolin, and Kaladin. It’s the most glorious kind of book tension, and I love it. It’s as epic a cluster as it could be, and because of the way Sanderson structures his books, the reader is very aware of the storm that’s coming (pun intended) while the characters flounder around. Everybody thinks they’ve got it figured out right up until the moment it explodes. Everybody’s making erroneous mistakes and reading prophecies the wrong way. Everybody’s learning about the depths of their powers. Words of Radiance essentially picks up right where Way of Kings leaves off, and we follow our favorite cast of characters, Kal, the bridgemen, Shallan, and Dalinar, as they all converge on the Shattered Plains. Sanderson does not disappoint in the answer, and I laughed like crazy for the whole scene. At one point, Shallan asks one of the greatest knights of the Shattered Plains how he manages to defecate while wearing a magical suit of armor, and let’s be honest, that’s a question we’ve all always wondered while reading these kinds of books. Yes, there are gut-wrenching, serious, dark moments, but Sanderson balances that with a bouncy levity that’s borderline Pratchett in its honesty. Sanderson’s greatest feat in a series like this is that he and the characters don’t take themselves too seriously. While a book titled Words of Radiance feels like its review title should be something much more lofty, “But how do you poop?” was one of my favorite lines in this book because it was so awesome and unexpected.
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