![]() Linus clings to the notion that his job is about saving children from cruel or dangerous homes, but really he’s a cog in a government machine that treats magical children as second-class citizens. Linus Baker loves rules, which makes him perfectly suited for his job as a midlevel bureaucrat working for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, where he investigates orphanages for children who can do things like make objects float, who have tails or feathers, and even those who are young witches. The vast scope of this book and the main characters’ compelling journeys make it an epic worthy of the name-and a real treat for fantasy fans.Ī tightly wound caseworker is pushed out of his comfort zone when he’s sent to observe a remote orphanage for magical children. The attention to worldbuilding makes this a fantasy fan’s dream, but Sanderson ( The Well of Ascension, 2017, etc.) doesn’t neglect his characters, giving each of them a fully realized emotional life and high personal stakes to fight for. This tale takes place in an unusual and intricately imagined world populated by enormous crustaceans and multiple colorful civilizations and scoured by the immensely powerful highstorms. The fates of Kaladin and Shallan and thousands of others hinge on the progress of the war for the Shattered Plains, a war that the great warrior Dalinar Kholin is beginning to doubt is right, thanks to the mysterious visions that visit him whenever a highstorm comes. ![]() ![]() From there her task only becomes more difficult. First, she must persuade the brilliant scholar-princess Jasnah to take her on as a student. Shallan has left her sheltered home life to pursue a desperate plan to rescue her family from financial ruin. But he can’t get away from a strangely intelligent windspren-a creature that should be an ephemeral, mindless sprite-who’s been following him for months and is starting to ask tough questions about why he’s given up fighting for what’s right. Now he’s a slave, and after 10 escape attempts, he’s decided he’s resigned to his fate. A sweeping fantasy story set in an original and richly detailed world.
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