A true example of fantasy with excellent displays of world-building, The Way of Kings is set on the stormy planet Roshar. Though it has been centuries since the 10 consecrated orders , the Knights Radiant, have fallen, their mystical swords and suits of armor still inspire wars between kingdoms.
One of those wars wages on the Shattered Plains, where Kaladin has lost everything and been cast into slavery to protect his little brother and his men. Brightlord Dalinar Kholin, one of of the army commanders that Kaladin despises, begins to lose his sanity over an ancient text called The Way of Kings.
And across the ocean, young Shallan apprentices under Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah, but her motives are more self-interested. In the midst of the theft Shallan is planning, the research she’s doing for Jasnah may uncover the mystery of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the senseless war.
