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reviewed Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson (Warbreaker, #1)

Brandon Sanderson: Warbreaker (Paperback, 2010, Tor Fantasy) 4 stars

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up …

Review of 'Warbreaker' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

My second Sanderson book after Way of Kings and didn't come away disappointed; I thought the magic system was particularly interesting as on paper it sounds very disparate and inconsistent like the rules were made by throwing darts at a board full of different arbitrary ideas (color-powered! transferable souls! magic power tiers! commanding inanimate things! people can come back from the dead!), but Sanderson takes those ideas and turns them into genuinely fascinating worlbuilding and magic systems. I also enjoyed the characters and their banter, specially Lightsong's.