en-US Sat, 11 Jun 2022 21:16:12 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 52869042 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.

Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.

The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.

Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.

Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.]]> Brandon Sanderson Funilesh 4 4.54 2014
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.54
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2021/04/01
date added: 2022/06/11
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies, currently-reading
review:
Amazed at how much hints and hidden bits are there which I didn't pick up on my first read through!
]]> 54580296 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

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.

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.

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.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

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.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 37 Brandon Sanderson 1648813542 Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.77 2010
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.77
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2022/06/08
date added: 2022/06/08
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
By far the most emotional highs and lows I've felt by a story ever! Irrespective of all the mediums of entertainment! And this was my 3rd time reading it. Absolutely EPICEST THING EVER
]]> 42732016 The Mortal Techniques novels are a series of stand-alone stories that can be read entirely independently, set in the award-winning Mortal Techniques universe.

Samurai, shinigami, vengeful spirits, and an impossible quest.

The Emperor of Ten Kings has plunged Hosa into war, and the gods are angry.

When the god of death gives Ein a mission to kill the immortal emperor, he knows he can't do it alone. He needs allies, heroes who will fight for him. How else can an eight-year-old boy hope to do the impossible?

Whispering Blade, Iron Gut Chen, the Century Blade, and Flaming Fist. These are all names of legend. And the god of death has given Ein a way to bind them to his cause. There is only one catch. In order to serve him, they must first die.

Never Die is a stand alone set in the world of Mortal Techniques. It’s a wuxia adventure filled with samurai, shinigami, heroes, and vengeful spirits.]]> 331 Rob J. Hayes Funilesh 4 gots-to-own-physical-copies
You got The Whispering Blade, a two katana wielding lady Samurai. The Emerald Wind, basically Jet from Avatar The Last Airbender but he's really self aware about his banditry. Iron Gut Chen, self proclaimed master of Chi but in reality a nothing but underwear wearing fat fuck with an umbrella and a booze keg but he really does have an Iron Gut lol. Death's Echo, a sniper assassin covered in bandages and dying of Leprosy, coughing up blood constantly and practicing social distancing to the best of his ability. And finally, Bing Wei Ma, a 40 something old guy who is basically one punch man, well... more like 3-4 punch and a few kicks man actually.

5 legends and a creepy kid, on their way to kill an Emperor. Slaying all kinds of monsters from Japanese or Chinese mythology. A fantasy adventure like nothing I've read before. With Anime inspired combat, meaning everyone has a one special move, Mortal Technique (name of the universe/series). They just don't feel the need to yell the name of their attack before engaging xD

Kim Bretton, the narrator lady absolutely top notch. Would listen to any audiobooks she's involved in. You got 4 main POV characters and 2 others who are almost always present yet I could easily tell every one of them apart just from their cadence or whatever.

The series is just a collection of standalone novels which worked out great for me since I was looking for standalone book to take a break from binging too many book series (esssss)

Oh and also the cover! So FUCKING dope! Definitely gonna read other books in this universe and anything this author puts out.

A solid 4.5/5 stars.]]> 3.88 2019
author: Rob J. Hayes
name: Funilesh
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/04
date added: 2022/05/07
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Ein, a 10 or 12 year old boy is on a quest to kill the Emperor of Ten Kings. His quest, given by one of the Shinigami, Gods of Death. To complete his quest the boy must recruit Heroes out of the Legends and recruiting is just the matter of finding these Legends because the Shinigami has given him a way to bind the heroes to him.

You got The Whispering Blade, a two katana wielding lady Samurai. The Emerald Wind, basically Jet from Avatar The Last Airbender but he's really self aware about his banditry. Iron Gut Chen, self proclaimed master of Chi but in reality a nothing but underwear wearing fat fuck with an umbrella and a booze keg but he really does have an Iron Gut lol. Death's Echo, a sniper assassin covered in bandages and dying of Leprosy, coughing up blood constantly and practicing social distancing to the best of his ability. And finally, Bing Wei Ma, a 40 something old guy who is basically one punch man, well... more like 3-4 punch and a few kicks man actually.

5 legends and a creepy kid, on their way to kill an Emperor. Slaying all kinds of monsters from Japanese or Chinese mythology. A fantasy adventure like nothing I've read before. With Anime inspired combat, meaning everyone has a one special move, Mortal Technique (name of the universe/series). They just don't feel the need to yell the name of their attack before engaging xD

Kim Bretton, the narrator lady absolutely top notch. Would listen to any audiobooks she's involved in. You got 4 main POV characters and 2 others who are almost always present yet I could easily tell every one of them apart just from their cadence or whatever.

The series is just a collection of standalone novels which worked out great for me since I was looking for standalone book to take a break from binging too many book series (esssss)

Oh and also the cover! So FUCKING dope! Definitely gonna read other books in this universe and anything this author puts out.

A solid 4.5/5 stars.
]]> 51057191
The Kauls have been battered by war and tragedy. They are plagued by resentments and old wounds as their adversaries are on the ascent and their country is riven by dangerous factions and foreign interference that could destroy the Green Bone way of life altogether. As a new generation arises, the clan’s growing empire is in danger of coming apart.

The clan must discern allies from enemies, set aside bloody rivalries, and make terrible sacrifices� but even the unbreakable bonds of blood and loyalty may not be enough to ensure the survival of the Green Bone clans and the nation they are sworn to protect.]]> 713 Fonda Lee 035651059X Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies
You made me cry like THREE SEPERATE TIMES with this book alone!]]> 4.62 2021
author: Fonda Lee
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2021/12/26
date added: 2021/12/26
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Alright Fonda Lee! I'm gonna have to read anything you put out from now on!

You made me cry like THREE SEPERATE TIMES with this book alone!
]]> 68429
The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler—the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years—has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves.

As Kelsier's protégé and slayer of the Lord Ruler she is now venerated by a budding new religion, a distinction that makes her intensely uncomfortable. Even more worrying, the mists have begun behaving strangely since the Lord Ruler died, and seem to harbor a strange vaporous entity that haunts her.

Stopping assassins may keep Vin's Mistborn skills sharp, but it's the least of her problems. Luthadel, the largest city of the former empire, doesn't run itself, and Vin and the other members of Kelsier's crew, who lead the revolution, must learn a whole new set of practical and political skills to help. It certainly won't get easier with three armies - one of them composed of ferocious giants - now vying to conquer the city, and no sign of the Lord Ruler's hidden cache of atium, the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal.

As the siege of Luthadel tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.]]> 590 Brandon Sanderson 0765316889 Funilesh 3 gots-to-own-physical-copies
I felt like some of the inner conflicts of the main characters dragged on for way too long.

Vin hesitating/not wanting to kill enemy leaders but absolutely destroying enemy pawns/ assassins was so frustrating.

Elend and the Assembly had it's moments but then it got old after a while.

Tindwyl was not at all fun to read. Will not miss her.

Sazed, TenSoon, Marsh, Breeze, Spook and Cett were fun!

Despite everything, it was a fun read.]]> 4.38 2007
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2021/02/04
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
This is a good set up book for the trilogy but kinda weak sequel to the insanely fantastic first book.

I felt like some of the inner conflicts of the main characters dragged on for way too long.

Vin hesitating/not wanting to kill enemy leaders but absolutely destroying enemy pawns/ assassins was so frustrating.

Elend and the Assembly had it's moments but then it got old after a while.

Tindwyl was not at all fun to read. Will not miss her.

Sazed, TenSoon, Marsh, Breeze, Spook and Cett were fun!

Despite everything, it was a fun read.
]]> 944076
Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him, but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy: it's time for the Bloody-Nine to come home.

With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war. A secret struggle in which no-one is safe, and no-one can be trusted. And, as his days with a sword are far behind him, it's fortunate that he's deadly with his remaining weapons: threats, blackmail and torture.

Jezal dan Luthar has decided that winning glory is too painful an undertaking and turned his back on soldiering for a simple life with the woman he loves. But love can be painful too � and glory has a nasty habit of creeping up on a man when he least expects it.

While the King of the Union lies on his deathbead, the peasants revolt and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No-one believes that the shadow of war is about to fall across the heart of the Union. Only the First of the Magi has a plan to save the world � as he always does � but this time there are risks. There is no risk more terrible, after all, than to break the First Law...]]> 536 Joe Abercrombie 0575077905 Funilesh 3 gots-to-own-physical-copies
This book as the previous two share all the pros and cons with each other. Didn't like the ending. It was as Logen would say, realistic. And also sour. Though the plot was always the weakest point anyway.]]> 4.35 2008
author: Joe Abercrombie
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2021/02/18
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Aaaand it's over..

This book as the previous two share all the pros and cons with each other. Didn't like the ending. It was as Logen would say, realistic. And also sour. Though the plot was always the weakest point anyway.
]]> 49021976 The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.]]> 1232 Brandon Sanderson 0765326388 Funilesh 4 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.58 2020
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/01/10
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Didn't really feel like a Stormlight Archive book sometimes. Less epic moments but a lot more 'WTF!!' revelations tho.
]]> 40603587
But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good... and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0010SIPT4]]> 400 Andrzej Sapkowski Funilesh 4 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.12 1993
author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2019/01/11
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
3.5/5 stars but in a good way.
]]> 2767793
Who is the Hero of Ages?

To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness—the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists—is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed.

Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. Vin can't even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans!]]> 572 Brandon Sanderson 0765316897 Funilesh 4 gots-to-own-physical-copies Such a satisfying ending! 4.54 2008
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.54
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2021/02/09
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Such a satisfying ending!
]]> 902715
Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem � he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world.

And Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters. If they didn't hate each other quite so much.

Ancient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven � but not before they are hanged.]]> 441 Joe Abercrombie 0575077883 Funilesh 4 gots-to-own-physical-copies
Or as a certain decapitated fop would say, Capital!]]> 4.35 2007
author: Joe Abercrombie
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2021/02/14
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Accrescent. That's the word for it! The first book was a nice setup and this one's just solid development. Development and interaction. Our wild and varied cast bumping shoulders with one another and they themselves growing, their personalities shinning through. Clash of culture and wit and cynicism. The banter, the arguments, the action (although kinda weak because it's not the magical kind), the romance, the moral ambiguity, the inner monologue (of one crippled torturer in particular) and countless other things. Noice.

Or as a certain decapitated fop would say, Capital!
]]> 944073
Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.

Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.

Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult.

Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.

]]> 515 Joe Abercrombie 0575079797 Funilesh 4 gots-to-own-physical-copies
Favorite character from this book, Sand dan Glokta, dashing youth turned military hero turned tortured, disfigured and crippled war prisoner turned torturer himself! Miserable poor dude. What a life he's had, what a life he's having still.]]> 4.21 2006
author: Joe Abercrombie
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2021/02/11
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Say one thing about this book, say it's pov characters are all clearly distinct, each with their own worldview and motivations. All of them twisted and flawed, all of them very much human which shows through on every page! And while the plot is intriguing but in a ordinary sort of way so far, It's the worldbuilding, the characters and their interactions with each other and the world that's kept me listening to this book to the end. Speaking of which, forever impressed by voice actors and their ability to present different characters. All praise Steven Pacey, the narrator. Who knows how many books I've skipped because I didn't like the narrator.

Favorite character from this book, Sand dan Glokta, dashing youth turned military hero turned tortured, disfigured and crippled war prisoner turned torturer himself! Miserable poor dude. What a life he's had, what a life he's having still.
]]> 41716919 Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.

On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years.

Beyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. Jade, Kekon's most prized resource, could make them rich - or give them the edge they'd need to topple their rivals.

Faced with threats on all sides, the Kaul family is forced to form new and dangerous alliances, confront enemies in the darkest streets and the tallest office towers, and put honor aside in order to do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival - and that of all the Green Bones of Kekon.

Jade War is the second book of the Green Bone Saga, an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade.]]> 587 Fonda Lee 0316440922 Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.39 2019
author: Fonda Lee
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2021/12/23
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:

]]> 43587154 JADE CITY is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu.

The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It's the only place in the world that produces rare magical jade, which grants those with the right training and heritage superhuman abilities.

The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion--but nowadays, in a bustling post-war metropolis full of fast cars and foreign money, Green Bone families like the Kauls are primarily involved in commerce, construction, and the everyday upkeep of the districts under their protection.

When the simmering tension between the Kauls and their greatest rivals erupts into open violence in the streets, the outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones and the future of Kekon itself.]]> 540 Fonda Lee 0316440884 Funilesh 4 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.06 2017
author: Fonda Lee
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/19
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Probably the best urban fantasy I've read to date! A great first book of a series as well. Moving on to book 2 right away!
]]> 32109569 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.

The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.]]> 383 Dennis E. Taylor Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies .
The diversity of characters is phenomenal here considering the fact that most of the characters are essentially the same guy! Also, the various plot lines with their stupendous intrigue. Just wow. The book really flows too. I just burned through!
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The ending was so abrupt though! Like if I didn't have the second book ready to go, I imagine I would've been furious at the author.
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4.5 Stars out of 5.]]> 4.29 2016
author: Dennis E. Taylor
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2019/10/10
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
God damn this is a good one! It hooked me in from the very beginning and had me wanting for more all the way!! I'mma go read the sequel right now!
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The diversity of characters is phenomenal here considering the fact that most of the characters are essentially the same guy! Also, the various plot lines with their stupendous intrigue. Just wow. The book really flows too. I just burned through!
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The ending was so abrupt though! Like if I didn't have the second book ready to go, I imagine I would've been furious at the author.
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4.5 Stars out of 5.
]]> 30841984
Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk - or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay's door with a plea for help. His daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Rescuing Rose is the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for.

It's time to get the band back together for one last tour across the Wyld.]]> 502 Nicholas Eames 0316362476 Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.26 2017
author: Nicholas Eames
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2020/04/28
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
Ahh maan. This book, like One Piece the manga, makes me want to round up my (imaginary) friends and go on a adventure.
]]> 28698036 Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection.

Mistborn: Secret History is a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn (The Final Empire), The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages. It also contains very minor spoilers for the book The Bands of Mourning. Mistborn: Secret History builds upon the characterization, events, and worldbuilding of the original trilogy. Reading it without that background will be a confusing process at best. In short, this isn’t the place to start your journey into Mistborn. (Though if you have read the trilogy—but it has been a while—you should be just fine, so long as you remember the characters and the general plot of the books.) Saying anything more here risks revealing too much. Even knowledge of this story’s existence is, in a way, a spoiler. There’s always another secret.]]> 155 Brandon Sanderson Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.34 2016
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2021/02/10
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:
There's always another secret!!!!
]]> 18739426
The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.]]> 455 Brandon Sanderson 146686267X Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.42 2016
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2021/11/21
date added: 2021/12/23
shelves: gots-to-own-physical-copies
review:

]]> 34002132 Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.]]> 1248 Brandon Sanderson Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.60 2017
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.60
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rating: 5
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Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

When family obligations forced Waxillium Ladrian to forsake the frontier lands and return to the metropolis of his birth to take his place as head of a noble House, he little imagined that the crime-fighting skills acquired during twenty years in the dusty plains would be just as applicable in the big city. He soon learned that there too, just being a talented Twinborn � one who can use both Allomancy and Feruchemy, the dominant magical modes on Scadrial � would not suffice.

This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society will now face its first test by terrorism and assassination, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax, his eccentric sidekick Wayne, and brilliant, beautiful young Marasi, now officially part of the constabulary, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife can stop Scadrial’s progress in its tracks.]]> 376 Brandon Sanderson 0765378558 Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.26 2015
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.

After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.]]> 325 Brandon Sanderson 0765330423 Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies 4.20 2011
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Funilesh 5 gots-to-own-physical-copies
Came across Lord of Scars in RoW and so just couldn't resist the urge to reread Mistborn!]]> 4.48 2006
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Funilesh
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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There's always another secret!!

Came across Lord of Scars in RoW and so just couldn't resist the urge to reread Mistborn!
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