
And by the time I was finished with Words, it felt like I was too invested in the series to even give an objective review: and maybe I am, viewing it in a biased lens, I mean – but at the same time, it is also a testament of how this book, and this series, managed to capture my attention to a really impressive degree. Words of Radiance is a tricky book to review – I read it right after The Way of Kings, when I was still riding the high of a first book that definitely delivered on all fronts. It is past time for them to awaken, for the Everstorm looms. The Explorer, straddling the fates of two peoples, is forced to choose between slow death and a terrible betrayal of all she believes. The Bondsmith, born in blood and death, now strives to rebuild what was destroyed. The Lightweaver, slowly being consumed by her past, searches for the lie that she must become. The Windrunner is lost in a shattered land, balanced upon the boundary between vengeance and honor.

Surgebindings, the powers of creation themselves they can brace a broken sould, but they can also widen its fissures.

A broken soul has cracks into which something else can be fit. Men seek what was lost I fear the quest will destroy them The ancient oaths have at last been spoken the spren return.
