Title: Warbreaker
Series: Cosmere #5 (can be read as a standalone)
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Genre: Adult, high fantasy
Publication date: June 2009
Published by: Tor
Source: Freebie from author's website
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Synopsis: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.
Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.
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.
Brandon Sanderson has done it again with the amazing world-building and cool magic system.
One thing I immediately loved about the Mistborn series was the unique magic system and how metals played a big role. Well, the magic system in this book revolves around color! I loved it! Just as I'd never read a book that used metals the way Mistborn did, I have never read a book that uses color the way the magic system did in this book!
I also really enjoyed following the characters we did. I think Siri was my favorite, what with her being the youngest, rebellious daughter of a king. Lol. She was put in a very difficult situation, a situation she never prepared for. But honestly, she handled things pretty well regardless of it. She was fun and a troublemaker, but she ended up learning a lot throughout this book. Her older Sister, Vivenna, grew a lot in this book as well. I think, even though I loved her sister as a character, the character arc Vivenna went through was probably my favorite. It was tough character development because the things she went through and experienced challenged her beliefs and views on things like the Lifeless, the use of Breaths, and just magic in general and politics in the world. Poor girl got the wake-up call of her life. But she persevered and trained and ended up actually reminding me quite a bit of Vin from Mistborn!
As for the fearsome God King, who one of the sisters was supposed to marry... Omg I was not expecting the feelings toward him that I felt 😲
This book was just so good with so many unexpected twists! I really enjoyed learning about the mythos in this world, with its gods (loved the god Lightsong, too!) and magic. Vasher's involvement in all this was another thing that surprised me and expanded on the mythos, which, again, I loved. I enjoyed all the political intrigue, the action stressed me out (as it should lol), and I just had an overall great time reading this! And it's rare you have a standalone fantasy novel, which this is... for now. Lol. I recently discovered that Brandon Sanderson plans to write a sequel, and I am SO excited! I loved this world!
I also really enjoyed following the characters we did. I think Siri was my favorite, what with her being the youngest, rebellious daughter of a king. Lol. She was put in a very difficult situation, a situation she never prepared for. But honestly, she handled things pretty well regardless of it. She was fun and a troublemaker, but she ended up learning a lot throughout this book. Her older Sister, Vivenna, grew a lot in this book as well. I think, even though I loved her sister as a character, the character arc Vivenna went through was probably my favorite. It was tough character development because the things she went through and experienced challenged her beliefs and views on things like the Lifeless, the use of Breaths, and just magic in general and politics in the world. Poor girl got the wake-up call of her life. But she persevered and trained and ended up actually reminding me quite a bit of Vin from Mistborn!
As for the fearsome God King, who one of the sisters was supposed to marry... Omg I was not expecting the feelings toward him that I felt 😲
This book was just so good with so many unexpected twists! I really enjoyed learning about the mythos in this world, with its gods (loved the god Lightsong, too!) and magic. Vasher's involvement in all this was another thing that surprised me and expanded on the mythos, which, again, I loved. I enjoyed all the political intrigue, the action stressed me out (as it should lol), and I just had an overall great time reading this! And it's rare you have a standalone fantasy novel, which this is... for now. Lol. I recently discovered that Brandon Sanderson plans to write a sequel, and I am SO excited! I loved this world!
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