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This is a Buddy Read for The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson starting on August 16, 2024.


Happy Reading!

In for a re-read, leading up to #5 release...

Thank you!

Series Schedule:
1. The Way of Kings (Aug 16)
2. Words of Radiance (Sept 16) [link]
2.5 Edgedancer (in above BR)
(also published in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection)
3. Oathbringer (Oct 16) [link]
3.5 Dawnshard (in above BR)
4. Rhythm of War (Nov 16) [link]
5. Wind and Truth (Dec 16) [link]

Audio: These used to be on Hoopla, but aren't anymore... maybe that will change. Two novellas are still there though. Not on A+.
Ebook: Not on KU, Hoopla, #2 & #4 on Open Library in preview mode.
If you find any universal/subscription copies, I will update.

I'm very tempted by this! Read it a few years ago and never continued with the series despite loving it.

Spot!

I’ve heard many good things about this, I’ll try to join ☺️

In! I'm saving the over 800 pages line on the bingo for Stormlight as I knew I'll be starting my reread later this year.

In! So excited :D

Life before Death,
Strength before Weakness,
Journey before Destination.

Charlie wrote: "I'm very tempted by this! Read it a few years ago and never continued with the series despite loving it."

This is the year for it... Wind and Truth is the end of the first arc of the series... there'll be a 15 year time jump between arcs, unless that's changed, and he won't be starting to write book 6 until around 2030?... he's got 5+ other Cosmere books to write first... Mistborn 8-10 and Elantris 2-3, minimum... he wants to write those 5 books before releasing any, probably for plotting reasons and the growing amount of crossovers to manage... so they aren't expected to start releasing until 2028, since he'll be writing them 2025-2027... the life of a Sanderson fan... at least he's transparent about most everything...

He's also novelizing White Sands, finally, instead of just having that first draft intro and comic series to tell the story... that's expected in 2025, before the Mistborn/etc stuff...

So... long story short... JOIN US!!!

haha you've convinced me!!

Just saw the update that he's 100% done with the first draft of #5, and pretty far through the 2nd draft--and is 99% sure he'll hit the target date for #5s release. Super looking forward to it... not sure if I'll try audio for the first time or do an eye-book reread, I do love these... and even though they're big door-blockin' chonkers, I usually end up devouring them in a couple days each...

I’m going to try to do this. Excited to read it.

Nirkatze wrote: "Just saw the update that he's 100% done with the first draft of #5, and pretty far through the 2nd draft--and is 99% sure he'll hit the target date for #5s release. Super looking forward to it... n..."

I'm super hyped for the release of #5... and to find out how the arc ends and the 15 year time jump happens before the 2nd sequence/arc starts in book 6-10 in 2030+...

My prevailing theory is (view spoiler)[someone (Taln and/or Shalash) or some group of people are convinced to do the Herald Oathpact, and force Odium & the Fused back to Damnation/Braize for 15 years, giving Navani & others more time to invent technology that will help in the Final War...

I have theories about Dalinar being able to Bondsmith the Splinters of Honor back into a whole Shard, but I don't expect that to happen until book 9-10, and be a sign that someday the 16 Shards can reform Adonalsium, in the Mistborn sci-fi trilogy...

I also just saw that Wind & Truth finally gives us Gavilar's POV of the Prologue that recurs in every book... (hide spoiler)]

Nirkatze wrote: "Just saw the update that he's 100% done with the first draft of #5, and pretty far through the 2nd draft--and is 99% sure he'll hit the target date for #5s release. Super looking forward to it... n..."

Ooohhh exciting!!!

Nirkatze you are cray... I loved this too, but there's no way I could read it in two days!!

Ahhh Choko in for another re-read too...

And Iain of course, you can't whisper Cosmere in here without Iain being too far behind :p

I won't be re-reading, it's just too soon for me, but I will follow along the threads for a refresher on everything...

Glad you'll be hovering Beena, looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

I don't thing it was specifically two days, but maybe three or four... I remember thinking I'd need a week and instead devoured in a weekend... they're just so tasty... no knowing how long it will take this time around...

In! Just starting to dip my toes into the Cosmere (I'm on Well of Ascension), so hopefully I'll be caught up in time to join this and finally read the Stormlight Archive.

rudaina wrote: "In! Just starting to dip my toes into the Cosmere (I'm on Well of Ascension), so hopefully I'll be caught up in time to join this and finally read the Stormlight Archive."

Picked a great year for it, with the first 5 book arc ending in December...

rudaina wrote: "In! Just starting to dip my toes into the Cosmere (I'm on Well of Ascension), so hopefully I'll be caught up in time to join this and finally read the Stormlight Archive."

Ha! I just mentioned this on the welcome thread, glad you found your way here.

I'd also recommend reading at least Warbreaker before Stormlight book 3, to get the most out of it... It's not necessary, but there are some fun easter eggs. Stormlight stands pretty well on its own so far... Other folks have any recommendations?

Besides reading Elantris & Emperor's Soul before Mistborn Era 2 book 4...

Can't wait to reread the Stormlight Archive series. In regards to reading order, when I read it, I went by The Quill To Live website's suggested reading order. I was able to understand the easter eggs and references that way.

Solid reading order... Arcanum Unbound covers alot of the unmentioned wildcards I was mentioning to people in other threads, like Emperor's Soul and Sixth of Dawn...

Ooh, shiny, I just googled that reading order:

I might recommend slotting in Wild Card 2: White Sand earlier, at least before Arcanum Unbounded, since Khris is the author of the Ars Arcanum...

You may as well slot it in WITH Arcanum Unbound, since that's where you can hear the White Sands Prime chapters, I think?...

I like reading around then, because the main times she appears on-page in the Cosmere books to date are Secret History (Arcanum Unbound) and the Wax & Wayne trilogy (when she asks Wax a bunch of probing questions about Twinborn compounding)...

Timelord Iain wrote: "You may as well slot it in WITH Arcanum Unbound, since that's where you can hear the White Sands Prime chapters, I think?..."

It’s only the first few chapters of the prime if I remember correctly. I would recommend the full prime (which is an awesome unpublished book but no longer considered canon) or the White Sands graphic novels.

Yea... nothing more than the first chapters of the trial are recorded on audio... I think the non-canon full-length novel has been mostly pulled from circulation, now that a rewrite is on the schedule, finally...

Used to be you could get an ebook of White Sand text ver if you emailed with a proof of purchase for the comic... not sure if that's still the case... Really hoping that rewrite comes through sooner on the docket than later, would like to read more...

Nirkatze wrote: "Used to be you could get an ebook of White Sand text ver if you emailed with a proof of purchase for the comic... not sure if that's still the case... Really hoping that rewrite comes through soone..."

Used to be you could get one just by emailing him and asking for it lol. But I’m excited for a canon version. I really didn’t like the illustrations in the graphic novel so i never finished it. The only version of the book I know is the non canon prime.

I read the first graphic novel and they don't bother me--but I also just have a really hard time reading graphic novels and manga. I focus too much on text and miss the context and subtext of the images, and end up getting confused. Give me words over pictures any day.

agreed... i like my stories i followed some more standalone web comic strips, back in the day... been over a decade now

The White Sand graphic novels are the only Cosmere things I disliked. It felt like Sanderson tried to shove a novel-sized plot into the graphic novels, and it didn't really work in my opinion. I actually quite liked the Prime chapters in Arcanum Unbounded, since we got more of a glimpse into Kenton's head. It made him feel more like a character rather than a plot machine. If there really are plans to make White Sand into a proper novel, I'm excited.

1) Yes, White Sands the novel is coming
2) I don't think Sanderson planned to make White Sands a graphic novel... I think Dark Horse was excited at the chance to make something with Sanderson, and latched onto White Sands, or he suggested it, and that's where it ended up...

I'm glad White Sands is coming, as well... because the Prime draft chapters & the graphic novel felt like the tip of the iceberg... stories take so long to tell in comic form... 3 issues isn't nearly enough... not sure I ever finished...

I might skip White Sands then and wait for the novel. I read the first one but wasn't overly impressed. Considered the omnibus of all three volumes that came out this year but when I looked at it all of the reviews seemed to be people complaining about it being damaged in shipping....

I like the prime chapters for the worldbuilding/etc... but the comics are the only place you're going to see Khrissalla and Nazh, I think... and that's who we've been talking about as someone to meet as a prominent worldhopper in other series...

Actually, I can read them on Kindle Unlimited and just hold off on buying it...

The first is on audible plus, which is weird to have a graphic novel audiobook.

Actually... it's Graphics Audio... I think that makes sense, and I actually might try it...

I think Graphics Audio might be a better fit for graphic novelizations... Graphics Audio feels like the audio corollary to comics vs books, anyway... they're generally abridged stories with sound effects / etc...

That makes sense then....

Might even be worth a try on the Audible Plus

Let me know what y'all think of that... I've been very curious how an adaptation of a graphic novel would work on audio...

Nirkatze wrote: "Let me know what y'all think of that... I've been very curious how an adaptation of a graphic novel would work on audio..."

I HIGHLY recommend the audios of The Sandman, there are 3 so far & I swear they announced a 4th but that was forever ago so who knows what is going on with that one.

Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have dismissed it so quickly.

The Sandman: Act I was excellent. I haven't listened to parts 2 & 3 yet, but the first was really good.

I do have those on my TBR! ^^ Someday!

I am going to finally read the series now that book 5 is coming out. For some reason I never got to it even though I even bought the books some years ago... But this year is it! I kind of planned to start earlier as I still have Mistborn era two to read and want to read everything in publishing order, but I should be able to fit it all in.

Yea... publication order is important with Sanderson, to get the connections in the right order, and not spoil stuff, especially in recent years... pre-2020, it felt relatively safe to read most in any order you wanted...

Indeed. But even for the earlier stuff, publication order is always safe bet. I already did my re-reads until The Way of The Kings. From now on it's all new for me.

Rhythm of War was the first time I felt like Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection was 100% necessary (generally recommended between Stormlight 2-3, since it contains Stormlight 2.5 as well)...

And The Lost Metal spoils some big Stormlight stuff, if you haven't read 1-4 yet...

Yeah I will read everything in publication order, even the short stories separately on the first read rather then doing whole Arcanum at some point.

Stumbled onto this great episode of Brandon's podcast, at work today, where he and his wife explain how Dragonsteel Entertainment went from being a small family business run out of their home into what it is today, with 54 employees and a new warehouse office space...

Timelord Iain wrote: "Stumbled onto this great episode of Brandon's podcast, at work today, where he and his wife explain how Dragonsteel Entertainment went from being a small family business run out of their home into ..."

Had to randomly watch that--thank you for sharing! Very interesting...

It's only 20-30 minutes (I think episodes with Dan Wells usually run closer to 1hr), and it was great... I'd have loved to hear more... they've definitely grown alot in the past 5 years... I'm curious what secret plans he has for the future...

Hey all. I was looking at the schedule and don't see the Stormlight novellas on the list. Are we going to add them ad hock?

probably just read them in the main book threads, like we do with short stories?