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Quotes from Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

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Here is a collection of quotes from Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. If you are interested in my review you can find it here.

Oathbringer Review

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“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? 
It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone. 
But that does not mean that I walked alone.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say.

The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.

But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

I’m certain some will feel threatened by this record. Some few may feel liberated. Most will simply feel that it should not exist. I needed to write it anyway.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. 
But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fail, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat the innocent – and that leaves me disinclined toward kindness. Some men, as they age, grow wiser. I am not one of those, for wisdom and I have always been at cross-purposes, and I have yet to learn the tongue in which she speaks. Some men, as they age, grow more cynical. I, fortunately, am not one of those. If I were, the very air would warp around me, sucking in all emotion, leaving only scorn.
Other men…other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Life was about momentum. Pick a direction and don’t let anything—man or storm— turn you aside.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“As long as you keep trying, there’s a chance. When you give up? That’s when the dream dies.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Love wasn’t about being right or wrong, but about standing up and helping when your partner’s back was bowed.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

Book Review: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

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With Rhythm of War coming out in a few months, I have been reviewing the entire Stormlight Archives series.

The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance

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Title: Oathbringer
Rating: ★★★★☆
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Genre: High Fantasy
Page Count: 1,248

In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Timesbestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar’s blood-soaked past and stand together–and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past–even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.

The World is Torn Open

Oathbringer starts in a world that has been torn open. A world that nobody has ever seen, and nobody quite understands anymore.

Most things are the same for our characters, but the few differences are changing things so quickly that this 1,200 page book seems so fast paced, its nearly impossible to put it down.

We follow the same characters throughout the book. It is their story, and we focus on how their actions and experiences affect and are affected by everything that is going on.

Sanderson is a master world builder. Within three books, he has made a world with so many mysteries and background plot lines, that it’s created a spiderweb in my mind of the possibilities.

Sanderson writes in a way that even though we know this series is going to take many more books to complete, we can’t help but feel the anxiety and stress that the characters are feeling. They must navigate this new world, and the stressors that come along with it.

A Series Just Beginning

The Stormlight Archive series is just beginning. We aren’t halfway done, yet I feel like these three books have created a world so much deeper than a lot of other books I read.

Oathbringer has opened the world’s doors even wider, and I can’t imagine how things will end up.

With each page, more answers were given, but at the same time, more mysteries and questions popped up.

Oathbringer is a big turning point in the story. We hit a turning point of the character’s ignorance being tested. Their beliefs and understandings of the world are either proven wrong, or are changed, and Sanderson’s writing does a great job at making it relatable and something that the readers are able to feel along with the characters.

A Deeper Experience

Oathbringer is a part of a series that is the best at world building and character arcs, in my opinion. Very few books I have read stand close to the work that Sanderson has done with this series.

Oathbringer focuses on Dalinar, the seemingly head of the Alethi forces against the end of the world. He has been deemed insane, almost from the first moment we met him.

Getting the chance to get into his mind has been one of the best choices by Sanderson.

Dalinar is the one character truly understanding what is happening, but even he doesn’t know a fraction of what is going on.

Getting inside his head and seeing the visions alongside him makes it possible to understand the world in a bigger sense than focusing on just the main characters.

Final Thoughts

Oathbringer is the third book in probably my favourite book series ever. It is so complex and build such an interesting world, that the reason I couldn’t give it five stars is because it might be getting too big.

Things can get too out there too quickly if Sanderson doesn’t focus the story a bit more. I know he has the writing capabilities to do so, but this world is getting larger and larger with each book, and it could quickly get too big for its own shoes.

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Quotes from Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

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“Honor is dead. But I’ll see what I can do.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Why hasn’t anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“I ain’t grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“A woman’s strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: jasnah-kholin227 likesLike“What is a woman’s place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin’s words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.

They ignore the greater assumption–that a ‘place’ for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be–by-nature–a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.

I say that there is no role for women–there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.

Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman’s role above another. My point is not to stratify our society–we have done that far to well already–my point is to diversify our discourse.

A woman’s strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“I don’t talk to myself because I’m crazy.”
“No?”
“I do it because I’m awesome.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Words are where most change begins.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Kaladin frowned. “Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?”
“Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated.”
“Storms, you’re spoiled,” Kaladin said, smiling.
“I’m refined, you insolent farmer,” Adolin said. Then he grinned. “Besides, I’ll have you know that I had to use cold water for my baths while here.”
“Poor boy.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Power is an illusion of perception.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“I can see what you’re up to.”
“Five foot six inches,” Shallan said. “I suspect that’s all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“How . . .” Dalinar said. “You fell into a chasm!”
“I fell face-first, sir,” Kaladin said, “and fortunately, I’m particularly hard-headed.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“The world isn’t fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

Short Book Synopsis: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

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Shallan is the main focus in this book, and we get her flashbacks featured at times throughout the book. The flashbacks slowly reveal the gradual destruction of her family, and the details of her two potential murderous and/or abusive parents.

The Interludes introduce Lift and follow Eshonai as she, at first, reluctantly changes to stormform and then stages a coup, taking complete control of the Parshendi.

We start the prologue with Galivar’s assassination told from Jasnah’s perspective. We see the horror she witnesses and her bond and eventually Soulcast for the first time.

The main story starts with Shallan and Jasnah traveling by ship to the Shattered Plains. Jasnah tells Shallan of Shallan’s betrothal to her cousin Adolin. Shallan continues her teachings until she is woken during the middle of the night and witnessed the murder of Jasnah.

In an attempt to save the rest of the crew, Shallan soulcasts and causes the ship to sink.

She makes it to shore but is unable to soulcast a simple stick when she tries. She eventually joins Tvlakv’s slave wagons and heads towards the Shattered Plains.

Meanwhile, Kaladin sets up training exercises for other bridge crews and begins experimenting with his newfound Adhesion abilities. He gets upset when he finds out that Brightlord Amaran arrives in Dalinar’s camp.

Dalinar keeps trying to unite the Highprinces by using his authority as the new Highprince of War. In one of his flashbacks he and other Knight’s Radiant fight against a Thunderclast in the middle of a Highstorm.

Back to Shallan, she eventually joins Tyn’s caravan and joins with them to defend against bandits and winning over a group of deserters that were chasing them.

Tyn assumes she can’t really be who she says she is, so Tyn takes her on as an apprentice con artist. She eventually finds out the truth, but is killed by Shallan using her Shardblade.

Tyn assumes she can’t really be who she says she is, so Tyn takes her on as an apprentice con artist. She eventually finds out the truth, but is killed by Shallan using her Shardblade.

Adolin starts winning some duels and obtaining pieces of shard plate, following his father’s plan to unite the high princes. Renarin trains with Shardblade and plate while Torol Sadeas works against Dalinar, consolidating power and sending troops on gemstone raids when it is not his turn.

Szeth attempts to kill Dalinar, but Kaladin defends him. Kaladin tells Szeth he is a Windrunner just like him, but Szeth flees in confusion and anger.

Shallan finally arrives at the Shattered Plains in the middle of a conference between the King and the Highprinces. She informs the royal family of Jasnah’s death and cons her way into being hired by Seberial. Using her Lighweaving skills, she takes on the persona of “Veil” and does some work for the Ghostbloods. She uses them in an attempt to learn about Urithiru and warn Dalinar of the Parshendi Voidbringers.

During the day she manages Sebarial’s books and courts Adolin, who she begins hitting it off with.

Kaladin continues training the bridegemen, promoting more men capable of command so he can delegate more patrols and guard duty.

He attempts training like Szeth to walk on chasm walls, but instead flies high above the ground in control of his abilities.

Moash reveals his dark secret and out to kill the King. Kaladin is torn – he knows the king is week and should be killed, but he has sworn to protect him.

Adolin makes a mistake, and accidentally challenges four Shardbearers at once to a duel. With Kaladin’s help, Adolin manages to win the duel and Kaladin asks for a boon from the king; a challenge with Prince Amaran, but he is arrested at his declaration.

Kaladin stews in prison and is visited by Wit, who ends up making things worse. When he is eventually released, Kaladin learns that Adolin demanded to be imprisoned as long as he was, which softens Kaladin’s feelings towards Adolin and lighteyes in general.

An assassination attempt on Dalinar during a scouting mission leaves Kaladin and Shallan at the bottom of the chasms, but both used stormlight to survive the impossible fall. They both don’t trust each other at first, but they both lighten up and share some of their pasts with each other. Kaladin kills a chasm fiend with Shallan’s shardblade but then realizes he has lost all contact with Syl because he is involved in Moash’s scheme to kill the King.

The countdown clock ticks towards zero. Dalinar prepares an assault against the Parshendi. Kaladin and Shallan make it back to camp and Shallan insists on going on the assault, having mapped out a good amount of the Shattered Plains in her trip with Kaladin, who stays behind with a wound to his leg.

Dalinar leads his army, guided by Shallan, to the centre of the Shattered Plains to end the war once and for all. Kaladin falls into a deep depression over his loss of Syl and his injuries, before having an epiphany that he must protect the incompetent king from assassination.

He confronts Moash and almost dies before uttering the words:

“I will protect even those I hate so long as it is right. ”

When he speaks these words, Syl returns and becomes his shardblade once again. He fights off Moash and Graves who flee after failing to kill the King.

Dalinar and the Alethi army encounter the Parshendi, who have taken on a strange new form. A portion of them fight while a portion of them sing a strange, foreboding song. The Alethi manage to win, but not in time to stop the Everstorm from coming at the same exact time as a Highstorm.

Szeth arrives at the scene of the battle to finish the job on Dalinar, but Kaladin intervenes and stops Szeth, driving him away.

Shallan solves the age-old puzzle and finds the portal. She activates it using her shardblade and the Alethi are transported to Urithiru, making it through the Highstorm and Everstorm.

Dalinar, Shallan, Kaladin, and Renarin gather in Urithiru and declare themselves as Knights Radiant.

Did I miss anything? What were your favourite parts of Words of Radiance? Let’s talk about it in the comments.
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Book Review: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

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Hello dear readers, today we continue on the path of The Stormlight Archive with the second of the three currently released books: Words of Radiance.

I reviewed The Way of Kings last month and did a summary of it to refresh my memory for when book four comes out.

The fourth book Rhythm of War comes out in a few months and I am beyond excited, so I am giving the first three the love they deserve.

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Title: Words of Radiance
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Rating: ★★★★☆
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Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status “darkeyes.” Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.

The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin’s master has much deeper motives.

Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.

Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable. 

Character Perspectives

Words of Radiance focuses more on Shallan’s story. She is a main character throughout the first book, but was second fiddle to Kaladin. Now Kaladin takes a step back and his story is more of a supporting role to Shallan.

I am not the biggest fan of Shallan, she seems foolish and selfish, but she becomes more likable in this book than in the first. Each chapter focuses on a small handful of characters, and the overlap in this book is a lot more than the first.

I like that we don’t just get current events and experiences though. We are also getting the backstory for whomever the main character of the book is. It is adding a wonderful amount of depth to the world and I am loving every minute of it.

Character Development

With each backstory we are getting, we discover the world more and more. Within the first two books of the series we explore maybe a tenth of the world, but each chapter let’s us explore a little more each time.

I also think Sanderson does a wonderful job at letting characters grow as the story continues. We already see their struggles and their fears right from the start, but then we get to explore it more, further our understanding of it as the characters come to realize them, and then we watch them grow.

Sanderson is a master of worldbuilding and I honestly don’t know of too many other authors that are able to do what he does in this series.

The Plot Thickens

Each chapter that I finish of Sanderson’s work blows my mind. He is able to take your understanding of his worlds and tear them apart in an instant.

Too often he opens your eyes more to the entirety of his realm, and its really amazing.

What makes me enjoy this book even more is that we get the “bad guy” perspective. Too often books come from the good guy’s perspective, and we don’t really get a chance to see the decisions made by the other side.

Words of Radiance allows us to explore their thoughts, their feelings, and their struggles almost as much as Shallan’s and her allies. I think that it really helps us empathize with them and the story becomes a lot less black and white, there is much more gray.

Final Thoughts

I absolutely love Words of Radiance and the rest of the series. I think it is a terrific example of what a high-fantasy book can and should be. The world is so vast and unknown, the plot so enticing and suspenseful, the magic so well developed, and the characters so well written and developed.

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Short Book Synopsis: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

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Hello dear readers, I have a new idea for posts that I want to try out. I figured since there are a lot of series that I am reading that aren’t yet finished, I would do some research and write up quick summaries for the books for others to use.

This way, instead of re-reading the books, people can read the summaries and re-live the stories.

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The book begins with a look at the Heralds, who are the leaders of the Knights Radiant. They have been in a thousands of years long war with the Voidbringers. We find out that the Heralds are cursed and ultimately will die in battle stopping the Voidbringers, where they will be tortured in a place of fire and brimstone before being reborn.

After countless rebirths, the Heralds abandon their roles and condemn one of their kind to the place of fire and brimstone for eternity. The Knights Radiant die off without their leaders or are consumed by corruption, leaving only their shard bladed and shard plate as a remnant of their legacy.

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Fast forward thousands of years and we get the story from the perspective of Kaladin, Shallan, Dalinar and Szeth, who live unconnected lives from what we can tell.

Seth is sent to Kill Galivar, the king of the Alethi people and brother of Dalinar, which he succeeds in. The Parshendi take credit for the assassination, and the Alethi wage war on them, starting the War of Reckoning.

After his brother’s death we read the story from the perspective of Dalinar, who read Galivar’s final message; to read a book titled The Way of Kings, in which he starts questioning the Alethi way of life and their political beliefs. He also begins having very vivid visions, where he remembers and interacts with Knights Radiant from thousands of years ago, which makes him doubt the stories that have been passed down for generations about the Knights.

Amongst chapters from the perspective of Dalinar, we get a few from his son Andolin, who struggles to accept his father’s change of heart. Though he doesn’t outwardly state it, he is constantly in doubt of whether or not the man he has respected and looked up to, his father, is truly going mad and seeing things.

Meanwhile, Kaladin, a darkeyed (basically the lower class) peasant with a burning hatred for lighters (basically nobles) has trained with his father to become a surgeon before volunteering to go to war for his local lord. He did this so that his younger brother would not die in battle, but Kaladin ultimately fails.

Kaladin uses this pain to grow stronger, and even defeats an enemy Shardbearer singlehandedly. Kaladin rejects his spoils of war; the blade and plate, as they are taken by his lord. Kaladin is branded and sold into slavery to hide the truth of the events.

Now a slave, Kaladin is forced to serve as a Bridgman in the war in the Shattered Plains. Basically his role is to run in the front lines carrying a giant bridge with the rest of his squad so that cavalry men can ride across large chasms. Bridgemen are easy targets for Parshendi archers.

Over time, Kaladin and his soldiers train to become a more coherent unit, and eventually a pseudo-family, which gives Kaladin a will to live.

After teaching his men to use the bridge as a shield, Kaladin ruins one of the raids and is punished by being left out during a Highstorm, basically a death sentence. He survives by unknowingly absorbing the energy from the spheres he is holding, and he begins to learn to control his power to save his men from the life of a bridgeman.

Across an ocean, Shallan, a minor lighter, plans a daring plot to switch her family’s broken soul caster with one belonging to Jasnah Knohlin, niece to Dalinar. After a few rejections, Shallan eventually becomes her pupil and uses struggles to come to terms with what she must do because of her relationship with Jasnah and her love of her new life.

Things get more complicated when Shallan is unable to use the soul caster, until one day she accidentally turns a goblet into blood just as Jasnah walks into the room. Shallan tries to hide this by masking her own suicide, but realizes that Jasna’s stone is unable to soul cast, and Jasnah has the ability to souldcast on her own.

Jasnah begins instructing Shallan in the skills of soul casting, and the two prepare to travel to the Shattered Plains to meet with her uncle Dalinar and discuss the origins of the Knights Radiant and their war with the Voidbrigners.

Obviously there is more to the story than just the above summary, but I think these cover most of the major plot points.

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Top 10 Tuesday: Authors I’ve Read the Most Books By

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Hello dear readers, welcome back to another Top 10 Tuesday hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Some of these won’t come as a surprise if you read my posts often, while others even surprised me. I will admit the lower numbers on this list are a bit sad…

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Mary Lu – 4 Books

Legend Series – I’ve read all four books in Lu’s Legend series and am interested in reading more of her books. I’ve heard she is a great YA author.

James Dashner – 4 Books

Maze Runner – I’ve read the first four books in the Maze Runner series. Originally they were the only books in the series, but I’ve heard rumors of there being more. Not to eager to get to the new books, but maybe one day.

Dan Brown – 5 Books

Angels & Demons, The Davinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, Origin – I’m a sucker for good conspiracy theories, and I would argue Dan Brown is a master at that field.

Brandon Sanderson – 7 Books

Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, The Reckoners – Though he is my favourite author at the moment, he is not the one I have read the most of. I just haven’t been able to get my hands on all of his works yet, but I imagine in a few years he will be bumped up the list.

J.K. Rowling – 7 Books

Harry Potter Series – Don’t really need to say much about this. She doesn’t have any books that interest me outside of the Harry Potter series so this won’t be getting any bigger any time soon.

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C.S. Lewis – 7 Books

Narnia – I imagine most book lovers have read of the Narnia series. I loved it when I was a kid. I honestly don’t know of any other books by Lewis, so I don’t know if this amount will get any bigger.

George R.R. Martin – 8 Books

Game of Thrones books (main story and world books) – I’m a big fan of high-fantasy books, and Game of Thrones is wonderfully written. Once the series finishes up I plan on increasing this count.

Cassandra Clare – 9 Books

City of Bones, The Infernal Devices – I read a lot of these books in middle school and high-school. I’m not in a rush to read any more books by Clare, but I wouldn’t be against reading more Shadowhunter stories

Robert Jordan – 9 Books

The Wheel of Time – If I can ever get back to reading my own books instead of ARCs and book tour books, I plan on bumping up The Wheel of Time numbers to 15, which is the rest of the series.

Brian Jacques – 12 Books

Redwall Series – These were the books that made me fall in love with reading, and I will forever hold a soft spot in my heart for them. There are a few more books in the series I want to get to eventually, and this may be the first ever series I re-read.

What authors have you read the most books by? Let me know in the comments.
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