Not having much interest in standard reading fare for youth, Sanderson discovered epic fantasy as a teenager and devoured such books by talented authors. Sanderson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1975 and moved to Provo, Utah, at 18 to go to school.

'Fans love the intricacy of his worlds the casts of thousands that fill his pages his layered, complex magic systems and his plots, which twist and weave and leave you a little breathless.' This work helped Sanderson rise in popularity. The final book in the series, A Memory of Light, was released in early 2013 and also hit the number one spot. 1 on the New York Times best seller list, and Towers of Midnight did the same in 2010 - both books are part of Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' series. In 2009, the novel The Gathering Storm reached No. After the death of Robert Jordan, the original author of The Wheel of Time series, Jordan's widow chose Sanderson in 2007 to finish off the series after reading his other work. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.Brandon Sanderson is a best-selling epic fantasy author and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. And Trell isn’t the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere―Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial.at any cost. Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate―whose corruption Wax and Steris have sought to expose―and Bilming is even more entangled.Īfter Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial’s god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set―with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders―since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines.

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