Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson
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Warbreaker

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 24 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/03/2015

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy


Synopsis

In the world of Warbreaker, each person is born endowed with the power of one Breath—which can be sold and collected by others, then used to Awaken objects and even corpses to do their bidding. A few individuals who die in glory return as gods, with the power of thousands of Breath, but no memory of their mortal lives—and are enthroned in the Court of Gods in Hallandren's capital. To Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Iris, the abuse of Breath and the claim of the Returned to be gods are repugnant blasphemy. But with one princess wed to the God King of their nation's enemies in a bid for peace, the other finds she must rely on Breath-using mercenaries to try to rescue her sister from her monstrous husband.

Lightsong the Bold, a lesser god who doubts his own religion, starts investigating mysterious murders in the Court of Gods and uncovers haunting clues to his own forgotten past. He is one of four gods who controls the army of Awakened Lifeless soldiers, and one faction is inciting an invasion of Iris despite the marriage treaty.

Vasher—wielder of the sapient sword Nightblood—works behind the scenes against the declaration of war, but Lightsong's visions of bloodshed prophesy its inevitability. Can the new queen, unaware of her sister's imminent rescue attempt, persuade Lightsong and also somehow get through to the aloof God King—who she has been forbidden to speak to or even look in the eyes—before her homeland is destroyed?

About Brandon Sanderson

American author, Brandon Sanderson, writes of epic fantasy and science fiction. His best known works include Cosmere, a fictional universe in which most of his novels are set. They include, the Mistborn series, and the Stormlight Archive, and also finishing The Wheel of Time, that was Robert Jordan's high fantasy novel (that he began writing before his untimely death). He also made popular the terms "hard and soft magic systems" in his Sanderson's Laws of Magic. The media company, DMG Entertainment has rights to the production movie of the Cosmere universe series.

Sanderson graduated from Brigham Young University. He began studies in biochemistry, to become a doctor, but after a two year break to do mission work for his church, he decided he wanted to write, and changed majors to English Literature. He took a night job at a local hotel in Provo, Utah while at BYU, so he could write while working. His roommate during that time was Ken Jennings, who ten years later had a 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy. After graduation from BYU, Sanderson married Emily Bushman, a fellow English major who later became his business manager.

Sanderson sold his first book to Moshe Feder at Tor in 2003. He had almost given up after submitting his manuscript a year and one half earlier. That first novel was Elantris, and over the next few years, Tor also published the Mistborn Trilogy, The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in the ten-volume series, The Stormlight Archive. The second in that series was Words of Radiance. Other volumes continue in the works. Sanderson's acclaimed Infinity Blade: Awakening was an ebook best seller for Epic Games, accompanying their popular iOS video game series.

Sanderson, his wife, Emily, and their three sons live in American Fork, Utah.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik on May 04, 2023

4.5/5 stars A colorful, vibrant, and highly character-driven standalone fantasy. If you haven’t seen the tenth-anniversary leatherbound edition of Warbreaker, I suggest you take a look now by clicking here: [URL not allowed]-... No, I don’t have one. However, staring at how gorgeous......more

Goodreads review by Katerina on August 17, 2018

A man cannot claim to be a fantasy fan if a man hasn't read Brandon Sanderson at least once in his lifetime. “My life to yours. My Breath become yours.” I feel like I was dormant Before. An inanimate object patiently awaiting, until Brandon Sanderson infused my molecules with Breath, until he Awak......more

Goodreads review by Clace on September 14, 2024

4.75! “My life to yours. My breath become yours.” Its very hard for me to write reviews for Brandon's books and you would think why? because I literally give all his five stars and that it should be more easy but honestly its so hard to capture what I am feeling when I read his books, its the feel......more

Goodreads review by Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews on March 25, 2024

Check out my new youtube channel where I show my instant reactions to reading fantasy books seconds after I finish the book. One of Sanderson's weaker books While I appreciate the world that Sanderson has built here for Warbreaker, and his truly innovative magic system -- I just can't recommend th......more

Goodreads review by jessica on March 09, 2019

lets play six degrees of brandon sanderson! i will go first - i recently found out that my dads brothers wifes brother is childhood best friends with brandon and they still are close to this day. so much so that my cousins have met him, got books signed, etc. after hearing about this, i felt obligat......more