{"product_id":"the-way-of-kings-the-first-book-of-the-breathtaking-epic-stormlight-archive-from-the-worldwide-fantasy-sensation","title":"The Way of Kings The First Book of the Breathtaking Epic Stormlight Archive from the Worldwide Fantasy Sensation","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ****\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Speak again the ancient oaths:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Life before death.\u003cbr\u003e Strength before weakness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJourney before Destination.\u003cbr\u003e Return to men the Shards they once bore.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Knights Radiant must stand again.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ****\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFANTASY COULDN'T BE MORE EPIC:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'I loved this book. What else is there to say?'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePATRICK ROTHFUSS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sanderson is a master... He doesn't disappoint'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLIBRARY JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Sanderson is astonishingly wise'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eORSON SCOTT CARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Epic in every sense'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48309532131583,"sku":"*R0084723*","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/27490143482685.jpg?v=1774105467","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-way-of-kings-the-first-book-of-the-breathtaking-epic-stormlight-archive-from-the-worldwide-fantasy-sensation","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}