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Series: The Stormlight Archive (#2) |The Cosmere (#12)

#2 Words of Radiance

by Brandon Sanderson

FantasyFictionScience Fiction

Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.

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Cover of Words of Radiance
Hardcover
Pages 1088 pages
Published 2010
Audiobook 48h 13m
Languages English, Bulgarian, Czech +8
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Publisher's Summary

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 unco…

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Weighted Score
4.70 out of 5.0
Bayesian Score Formula
(R × v + C × m) / (v + m)
R (Avg Rating): 4.72 ★
v (Ratings Count): 2,878
C (Catalog Average): 3.89 ★
m (Min Weight Threshold): 50
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Hardcover Avg: 4.72
True Ratings 2,878
Written Reviews 235
Shelved (Popularity) 5,098
Users Read 4,057
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