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Warbreaker

Written by: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
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From the author of the connected universe of the Cosmere comes the standalone novel from which spring characters who later play roles in the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.

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 Idris, 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 Idris 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?

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Perhaps I may be spoiled by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading but I had difficulty with this narrator. She puts in unnatural pauses mid sentence, speaking with a rhythm that doesn't follow that of the dialog of the book and emphasizing words that shouldn't be.

Good story but narrator not so much

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Slowly going through all of this authors works related to his cosmere universe. Started with Stormlight Archive, then the Mistborn novels of era 1 and 2, then going back to his first novel Elantris and now to this which occurs before mistborn and stormlight archive books.

This novel does a great job at exploring the ways in which you can be groomed for certain life roles your entire life, but life itself has a different path for you. character growth is quite excellent!

Another excellent Novel by the author

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Great book, highly recommended.

Anything by Brandon Sanderson is pretty great.

The performer also did a very good job.

Great book

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the different dynamics and completely unexpected plot twists, I really enjoyed all of the dynamics.

layers

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The performance was awesome and I loved the wry humour. Just a great book overall.

Really great listen

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