Just 10 days

Brandon Sanderson hardly needs any introduction as a writer in the Fantasy genre. After he completed 'The Wheel of Time'-series of Robert Jordan, his career sky-rocketed. Anyone doing any research into the genre, can't but stumble on his name. He leaves at least a year writing other things instead of 'The Stormlight Archive', so he can replenish his energy.

This fifth volume closes the first arc(s) before Brandon Sanderson starts on the second part. But that will have to wait for a while. 'The Wheel of Time' has tel'aran'rhiod or the dream-world, where pretty crazy stuff takes place. But Shadesmar has exponentionally expanded on that idea, and connects it to the 'real' world.

I always need about a 200 pages, to get fully invested in the story Sanderson brings, as I didn't reread any of the previous books (yet). Since the Radiants were introduced Brandon Sanderson gives you the different names of the Radiant he writes about, which makes it a bit confusing as the name says something about the Radiant ... but not really. For me that means it is just a different kind of Radiant, and I trust Sanderson to not have him do things he shouldn't be able to do. So I just read on and dive into the 'rest' of the story. Which is extensive. Reading this book took me 6 weeks to complete, because it has 1330 pages! Please, Brandon Sanderson, cut your stories for 'The Stormlight Archive' into an A and B part, just as George Martin did with some of the 'Game of Thrones'-books.

The story covers the ten days between the forging of the agreement and the agreed upon confrontation between the champions. These are ten days of war, as the agreement wasn't as clear as people thought it was. In the story you follow about 20 characters. A big part of the story is set aside for Szeth, the assassin in white from The Way of Kings.

And now I need to wait about 2 years for the next chunker in this magnum opus. I can't wait!