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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography 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 rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before Destination.

.. and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.

»Svårslagen fantasy som förtjänar sina 750 sidor! En fantastisk bok.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Marklars Books 

»Jag kunde inte släppa den.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Tinnerts Bookcorner

I tusen år har aska fallit från himlen, inga blommor har blommat och täta dimmor har gjort nattens mörker fruktat. Det är en värld av lidande där den evige och odödlige Överstehärskaren styr genom ett antal aristokratiska familjer. Vanligt folk är dömda att leva i underkastelse och arbeta som slavar. Men mitt i all hopplöshet dyker Kelsier upp, en överlevare från de hålor dit Överstehärskaren skickar dem som han dömt till döden. Kelsier har allomantiska förmågor - en rad magiska styrkor som nästan bara aristokratin besitter - och en plan om hämnd och frigörelse. Samtidigt stryker Vin, en ung tjej som är medlem i ett tjuvgäng, runt på gatorna i huvudstaden. Även hon är allomantiker - men vet inte själv om det förrän Kelsier drar in henne i sina planer. För att Kelsier och Vin ska lyckas störta Sista riket är det mycket som måste gå i lås. Inte minst måste Vin lära sig att bemästra sina allomantiska krafter...I svensk översättning av Lottie Eriksson.

BRANDON SANDERSON [född 1975] är en amerikansk ungdoms- och fantasyförfattare, mest känd för sin Mistborn-serie. Han har tagit sig in på förstaplatsen på New York Times bestsellerlista två gånger, legat på listan med ytterligare fyra böcker, nominerats till en John W. Campbell Award för Bästa nya författare och två gånger vunnit Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award för Bästa episka fantasyroman. Brandon Sandersons böcker har sålt i över 21 miljoner exemplar och översatts till fler än tjugo språk.

»Sååå bra! Och slutet både krossade mitt hjärta och gav mig andnöd. Har ni inte läst Brandon Sanderson så har ni verkligen missat något!« Betyg: 10 av 10 - Boktycke

»Sanderson knockade mig helt.« Vargnatts Bokhylla

»Kan mycket väl bli årets favoritbok!« Betyg 5 av 5 - Läsfåtöljens Bokblogg

In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling 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.

From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the beautifully designed Mistborn Boxed Set I, collecting his thrilling trilogy.

Mistborn: For a thousand years, the ash has fallen and no flowers have bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa have slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler has reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror. Until Kelsier, a brilliant half-Skaa thief and natural leader, finds in himself the powers of a Mistborn, and turns his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

The Well of Ascension:The impossible task has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler has been vanquished. But with Kelsier dead, too, the awesome task of building a new world has been left to former street urchin and Kelsier's protégé Vin, who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land. Vin is now worshipped as a hero in her own right, but she is haunted by a strange vaporous entity hidden in the mists.

The Hero of Ages: Having escaped death only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture now hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. But with the return of lethal mists, increasingly heavy ashfalls, and ever more powerful earthquakes, Elend and Vin aren't sure that killing the Lord Ruler to end the Final Empire was the right thing to do after all.

he Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling 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.

»Ett makalöst episkt fantasyäventyr som ger dig karaktärer att älska och en värld full av hemligheter. Årets bästa? Inte omöjligt.« Bokhuset

Ondskan är besegrad. Men kriget har bara börjat... De gjorde det omöjliga: de lyckades övervinna den gudalika varelse vars brutala regim hade pågått i tusen år. Nu måste Vin - tjejen från gatugänget som blivit landets mäktigaste dimfödde - och Elend Venture, den idealistiske unge adelsmannen som är förälskad i henne, bygga upp ett nytt fungerande samhälle i askan efter imperiet. De har knappt hunnit börja då tre separata arméer går till anfall. När belägringen intensifieras tycks en uråldrig legend erbjuda en glimt av hopp. Men även om den existerar, så är det ingen som vet hur man hittar Uppstigningens brunn, eller vilken sorts kraft den består en med. Dödandet av Överstehärskaren visar sig ha varit den lättare delen. Att överleva i svallvågorna efter hans fall kommer att bli den verkliga utmaningen...I svensk översättning av Lottie Eriksson.

BRANDON SANDERSON [född 1975] är en amerikansk ungdoms- och fantasyförfattare, mest känd för sin Mistborn-serie. Han har tagit sig in på förstaplatsen på New York Times bestsellerlista två gånger, legat på listan med ytterligare fyra böcker, nominerats till en John W. Campbell Award för Bästa nya författare och två gånger vunnit Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award för Bästa episka fantasyroman. Brandon Sandersons böcker har sålt i över 21 miljoner exemplar och översatts till fler än tjugo språk.

»Så. Himla. Bra.« Betyg 5 av 5 - Marklars Books

»Brandon Sanderson är en helt fenomenal författare.« Betyg 10 av 10 - En blogg för bokugglor

»Galet bra. Jag älskar varenda minut.« Midnatts ord

Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.

Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.

The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.

Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.

Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive, begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike.

Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography 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 rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery.

In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable. Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.