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Oathbringer

Written by: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
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Publisher's Summary

The eagerly awaited sequel to the New York Times best-selling Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game.

In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times best-selling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost. The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together - and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past - even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2017 Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC  (P)2017 Macmillan Audio

What the critics say

"Character development is at the heart of the book, and it is here that Kramer and Reading shine, with remarkably consistent and multifaceted characters that fuel the action of the story.... Adept pacing highlights both the intensity of hand-to-hand combat and quieter moments of sorrow and grief, fully realizing the intricate world that Sanderson has created." (AudioFile Magazine)   

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outstanding.

Between listening and reading I go through at least 30 fiction novels a year. With the exception of the Lord of the Rings trilogy that I read back in high school I've never really been a fan of high fantasy. I find most of it either very derivative or, in the case of ASOIAF, tedious.

So it took me a while to finally get around to trying out Stormlight. I wish I would have discovered this series years ago. I haven't been this invested in a story ever, not once.

I'm not going to babble on about the characters, or rewrite the synopsis like so many reviewers do. I'm just here to say that this book is the best in a line of great books. I have never once taken the time to write a review, but this series is worth at least this small effort on my behalf.

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What a disappointment.

I'm not a big fan of reviews and I don't often write them but this one warranted spending my life minutes doing. I will start by saying that I am a fan of Sanderson and loved the first two books of this series. I listened to them and bought the next book mere minutes after finishing the previous one. My hopes were pretty high coming into the third book.
This installment in the series delivered the square root of nothing that it had the potential of delivering and instead substituted endless meandering and waxing poetic about ethics and morality and blah blah blah. This book is the literary equivalent of a company meeting that takes 3 hours when it all should have just been sent out as a email and saved everyone an afternoon. I was half way through the book wondering if anything is actually going to happen to develop the story. I would have to wait until the last few chapters for that to actually happen. This book is long and dull and that's not even the biggest strike it has against it.
This book manages to take all of the beloved, strong, dynamic, interesting characters from the first two books and turn them into weak, annoying, wienies (for lack of a better term) without any of the toughness and resilience they have shown in the first two books. I lost track of the number of times I just wanted those wonderful characters to stop their bitching and whining and to put on the big girl/boy pants and do something. Now I get character flaws and the necessity for them, but for pity's sake, they should add to the story and the character, not be so prolific that I was sitting there hoping that the character died because they deserved the way they were carrying on. As insult to injury, all the other potentially great characters I would have loved to see get some air time were basically ignored in favour of endless chapters listening to a handful of characters exercise their own demons ad nauseum.
It is really too bad after such stellar 1st and 2nd books that I doubt I will be coming back to the Stormlight Archive.

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A solid four stars

I felt less passion in this book to the previous two Brandon Sanderson written, never the less the audio reading was amazing. There were some parts that actually felt, well boring to me.

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hard to get through...

compared to prior books, this book will challenge even the most hardcore fans to complete.

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fantastic

Everything about this book and recording is great, great story, so many unexpected plot points and just very entertaining.

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Amazing addition ti the stormlight archive

Brilliant performance by Michael and Kate, loved all the voices and enjoyed they both played pattern the same way in this book. Story is as usual 5 star, can't go wrong with Brandon Sanderson.

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Suffers from being TOO epic

I liked the series up to this book, which just lost me in the slog through a few too many interludes.

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I stopped caring about the characters.

There was othing in the plot that made me more interesting or more invested in the story.

Edit: Michael Kramer is flawless.

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One character ruin the whole book for me

I powered through the first two books as I enjoyed and loved it and was excited to start the third one.

But this book seems to feature a lot more Shallan POV... I didn't like her in the previous books but my hatred for her has grown in this book. I find reading her sections so unenjoyable that I started skipping them completely. Which sucks because I missed a couple key parts of the book... I had to go back suffer through it.

The performance by the narrator is really well done honestly the quality in the first two books were good and continues in this book as far as I can see and the other characters story lines are interesting. That being said, I'm finding it increasingly more difficult to continue the story as I fear there's way more Shallan than there needs to be and I just don't want to have to listen to her s***.

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One of the best fantasy books of our time

A book I keep coming back to. it has compelling and inspiring characters and real depth and feeling.

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