The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson's number one New York Times best-selling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game.

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar’s crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium or personally face the storm of failure.

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Listening Length	57 hours and 26 minutes
Author	Brandon Sanderson
Narrator	Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Audible.com Release Date	November 17, 2020
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B082FQRWWR
Best Sellers Rank	#47 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Military Fantasy (Books) #1 in Military Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Action & Adventure Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals)

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Mckinley Gould

mental health guide...

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2020

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I'm about 50% of the way through the book, so far i'm really not enjoying the split personality disorder and how much it feels like the word count has been expanded to account for these long irritating inner debates.
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Bryce

Sad

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2020

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Journey before destination. A key thing in the series thus far and it makes me sad that Sanderson did not take that to heart in writing this book.

The end being really good does not make up for the meat of the book being disjointed and not fun.

It is not a bad book in the grand scheme of things, but it IS a bad book in comparison to the other Archive books.

The vast majority of characters we see repeat themes from the previous books. Mental health is a major thing in this book both to its credit and detriment. I understand it is a constant struggle for many people but I feel as though that very constant struggle hurts the book.

There just seemed to be very little progress in the book. It would be one thing if it was at least fun to read but that was not really the case. It more depressing and dark than previous books especially adding in the mental health bits.

The flow of the story was constantly interrupted, mainly by flashbacks. Flashbacks that added nothing into the story of any relevance.

This was easily my favorite series that I was reading, I looked forward to each release. In the previous books I found myself reading constantly with as few interruptions as I could.

This book was not like that. With this one I found myself putting it down to do other things, especially when one of the aforementioned flashback chapters came up.

This book combined with Sanderson saying he plans on this being a 10 book series divided into two 5 books parts leaves me sad, disappointed and worried going forward.

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Ellen

Dragged down by weak supporting characters. Lots of skimming.

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020

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I wrote another review, but wanted to be a bit more concise.

* I love Brandon Sanderson stories, but RoW falls into the same trap as many fantasy series that drag on past 3 books.
* I'd only recommend this book to those readers who are very Invested in The Cosmere. It basically has The Architect scene from The Matrix strung out through much of the book.
* Shallan, Navani and Venli are interesting characters. Wit's always good and I could've read more chapters about The Mink. Dalinar and Jasnah are just kind of there. Lift is awesome, but she's lost in the shuffle. Lirin (Kaladin) and Adolin drag down the entire book.
* RoW should've been the first book in a new trilogy. As book #4 in the Archive, it's about 400-600 pages too long. Sanderson should have just included Dawnshard if he needed 1200 pages for publication.

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1. Lirin drags down all the Kaladin chapters and eventually the entire book. His character is so flat that it's nearly impossible to read his and Kaladin's chapters. Point made after 2 chapters. Time to move on.
2. Adolin drags down all of Shallan's chapters. The whining gets incredibly old after a very short period of time. Got the gist 2 books ago.
3. The interludes aren't needed. They're either a PoV for a character in the main story arc (should've been a chapter) or too short to add anything to the world. For example, I-8 adds very little and that's a stretch unless you've read Dawnshard.
4. It feels like there are too many facts not in evidence. I've read the 6 Mistborn books, Unbounded and Dawnshard. I still feel like I had to buy and read Warbreaker about mid way through reading RoW. Didn't help, which wasn't a great feeling. RoW would be especially confusing without Unbounded and coppermind.net (fair warning, coppermind has many RoW spoilers in addition to other useful information. The best books are the ones you can reread and still enjoy after knowing everything though).

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Do yourself a favor a just read the last 85% ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2020

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Almost everything that made this series amazing in the first 2 books has been whittled away to mere sidenotes. The downward spiral started in book 3 and bottoms out with this book. You can read the first 100 pages and the last 100 pages and get every important point of the book without having to struggle through constant, boring, repetitive "whimpering in fear BECAUSE OF ALL MY TRAUMA!!!" and psychotherapy 101 plotlines. There is also really no sense of risk for any of the major characters; one or two side characters always get offed but you always know there are no real stakes for any of the others. None of the other radiant classes are developed at all.

These books were 10x better when it was warriors with massive magical blades in almost indestructible magical-powered super-armor just fighting in huge battles and sometimes duelling. Go back to that, please.

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Blake

Loved It!!! (Spoiler Free)

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2020

It’s like Stormlight and the Cosmere are taking an important turn....and it is well-worth the ride! This book is packed with action from the very start and answers questions we began asking in Way of Kings. Navani’s POV is a wonderful inclusion. The development of many third-tier characters also shows the way the series will progress as newer characters come into the spotlight.

I laughed. I cried. I was on the edge of my seat. Worth the wait and excited for the next volume!

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Barry Mulvany

Good instalment and a bit different than previous books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2020

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So the next instalment of the Stormlight Archives is done, it was a beast of a book as expected but overall I enjoyed it.

I won't say much about the plot except that it's set around a year after book three and mainly follows Kaladin, Navani and Venli. Shallan has a fair few POV's as well though not as many as the others and the rest of the main characters just have a few bits here and there.

Unusually, so far anyway, the flashbacks weren't as prominent as they have been in other books and only started in part three. That meant that the vast majority of the book was set in the present day timeline. You would expect that meant the plot moved forwards loads but it didn't really. This was very much an introspective book and so though we had a lot of character development, the plot didn't move forward all that much.

So the heart of this book is about self realisation. Kaladin is severely traumatised and needs to learn to take a step back. Shallan is even more messed up and has to come to an understanding with herself. Venli is trying to live with what she's done while moving on to what she is to become and Navani is trying to balance her responsibilities as a ruler with her desire and skill as a scholar. It's an unusual book in that respect and fair play to Sanderson for tackling such issues in a truly epic fantasy setting.

Saying that parts of it I felt dragged a bit. The parts with Navani and Raboniel were some of my favourite bits but it got very technical in places and I found myself glazing over it. Some people are probably going to love it though. This book also got very cosmere heavy which is both a good and a bad thing. Myself twenty years ago would have absolutely loved it, I had the time to constantly re-read my favourite books and I'm sure I would have read all three again in preparation for this. However me nowadays still loves it but since I've only read most of his books once, I was constantly wondering what bits of the cosmere he was talking about and if I should know certain names etc. I know the most obvious ones but I'm sure I missed loads and the significance of some stuff we found out. It is still pretty great and again this will be an added bonus for others.

As you will expect if you've read any of his other books, Sanderson has ended it with a bang (which I'm still thinking about) and now must wait patiently for another three years until the next one. This time I will re-read them as it will be the final part of this arc.

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J. L. Merritt

Disapointed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2020

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So many interesting characters but in this book I didn't feel they really went anywhere, nothing new was really revealed and I felt the book wasn't worthy of the authors talent. I expected so much more, Kaladin - one of the best characters in modern fantasy fiction - I wanted to kick him up the ...... , Shaladin a great female hero was the same as well as Jasnah. Releasing Dawnshard at the same time (which you should read before this book) was a bad move. I love this series, I've recommended it to so many people who have enjoyed it. The only real new point was Adolin in Shadesmar which wasn't long enough. Sadly this book didn't do much for me. However I can't wait for the next one

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M COOP

Mental health issues and some stormlight story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2020

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Get ready to jump into this long book, full of...
'General but no specific spoilers'
deep depression and Schizophrenic split personality disorder, on a roller coaster ride of a story dealing with mental health issues, long extremely drawn out 'scientific experiments' and best of all, almost no actual movement of characters physical location or trails.
In this insanely detailed book of personal growth? Of three characters, watch out for the trap of believing three books were enough to understand the characters strengths and their very well detailed weaknesses, as this will take you down to the depths of how to write an extensive book detailing Internal issues.

So, what was good?.
The ending was split 50% between truly brilliant and 50% wtf.
I better understanding of the world building that is happening.
A Bond that is starting to be be reawakened.

And the bad.
Almost no movement of the storyline and I mean actual physical movement
A complete continuation of mental health issues to the point of almost not caring anymore.
Trying to make a specific character story line in any way have any importance or interest while not actually doing anything!.
A focus on the minutiae of stormlight and experiments to the detriment of the story

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Idaho Mum

Great book that Amazon made difficult to read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2020

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I am loving the book thus far, but wanted to give my frustration with Amazon itself not adding Whispersync capability to the book. It's a massive book, and I have some reading challenges, so I need to use Audible recordings and be able to sync them with my written versions I can follow in Kindle. For this reason, I always buy both versions from Amazon. Every other Sanderson book is able to sync between Audible and Kindle, but this book can't. It takes me forever to find my place, and it makes it hard to keep up. I also can't play the recording and have my Kindle app follow the text at the same time in the way it usually does. Bad form, Amazon! I keep coming in here to see if it's an oversight that someone will correct.

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Whitkt

Waited For This For Ages....... Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2020

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So a typical Stormlight Archive book. Fantastic start and finish. although i thought the ending was a little rushed. Lost my way in the middle and also found myself bored and putting the book down quite easily. This just never happened with any of the previous books. All turned out fine in the end. but i would rather have more battle action as in the previous books. Some of the plots where very easy to see and and dragged out far to long.

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