While Kaladin and Shallan’s personal stories are vastly different, they share a theme about belonging and purpose. Even the interlude chapters – which I thought dragged on a bit in the early books – were meaningful to the main plot or expanding the nuance of the Roshar itself. Presently I’ve read 19 chapters plus a handful of interlude chapters which has brought me to the 293 page mark, and I have to say I am liking this way of breaking it down, given that the series as a whole can be quite comprehensive. It does have the advantage of having three books in the series prior so he can forgo a lot of the explaining and get right into the good stuff. RoW easily has the best pacing of all the Stormlight books by far, throwing us into the deep end and drowning us with tense action, unraveling mysteries both new and old, and expanding its big cast of characters. “Extinction is the natural escalation of this war” So go and get a copy as soon as you can, got it? Good, now let’s get on with it. įor those of you who haven’t heard of or read any of the Stormlight Archive books, I suggest doing so the next time you’re wandering around a bookstore trying to decide what to read especially if you love epic adventures, deep characters, and a well thought out universe.

Conveniently for me, the book is already separated into multiple parts with interlude chapters in-between. Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive #4) by Brandon Sanderson is a behemoth of a book – over 1200 pages – and I hope you won’t hold it against me that I review it in parts rather than a whole.

Rhythm of war part one