En smakebit på søndag: The Way of Kings [Part One]

The Way of Kings er første bok i serien The Stormlight Archive, skrevet av Brandon Sanderson, en amerikansk forfatter kjent for Cosmere-universet og serien Mistborn. The Stormlight Archive er også lagt til dette universet. Sanderson er også kjent for å ha fullført Robert Jordans fantasyserie The Wheel of Time da Jordan døde før han hadde fått skrevet den ferdig.

Jeg har ikke kommet særlig langt ennå, men skjønner allerede at det er mye å holde rede på. Heldigvis kommer det etterhvert, og ikke listet opp. Det er en skrivestil jeg liker, og hittil er det spennende, selv om starten var noe kronglete.

Fra baksideteksten:

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Its terrifying and frequent tempests have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells and trees pull in branches. Cities are built only where the land offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war is about to swallow up a soldier, a brightlord and a young woman scholar.

There always seemed to be a reason Kaladin survived when those he'd tried to help died. Some men might have seen that as a blessing, but he saw it as an ironic kind of torment. He'd spent some time under his previous master speaking with a slave from the West, a Selay man who had spoken of the Old Magic from their legends and its ability to curs people. Could that be what was happening to Kaladin?

Don't be foolish, he told himself.

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