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Warbreaker

By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
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After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today's leading master of what Tolkien called 'secondary creation', the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can be collected only one unit at a time from individual people.

By using breath and drawing upon the colour in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron, the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery; and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.

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Good plot, easy to identify the characters and a great plot with several twists.

Great twist

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Well narrated, even with the switching between main protagonists, it was easy to follow. Great

A interesting read.

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Took a while to get into this book but I was soon hooked and couldn't stop listening. Fantastic character development in this story. I like how the focus shifted from the younger sister to the older one.

Great!

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perfect in many ways
original story with a different approach to magic use, the character building is great, the omg moments when certain key things happen. my only gripe is the narrator sometimes didn't leave a space between change of scenes, so some scenes nearly blurred together but it wasn't enough for me to give less than 5 stars

perfect

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Overall its a really good book, story buildup is good, we get to know the characters well, an interesting story, my only real dislike is that the ending felt a tad rushed like it needed a bit more to it,

Good Story, Ending a bit rushed

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