A 'middle part' before the next door-stopper-sized installment in the Stormlight Archives series. This book tells more about Lift, a girl who three years ago asked an enchantress not to grow older any more. She is a Knight Radiant who has a spren, a sort of familiar, that tries to offer her some help – even if she isn’t always ready to accept any sane advice. The book starts with an episode that was already part of the second installment of the series, Words of Radiance, and continues from there. (Somehow I was expecting a prequel.) Lift follows the shadowy and powerful figure, The Executioner, who almost killed her. Not very sane, but she wants to find out what he is doing and perhaps save the next person whom the Executioner wants to kill.
A smoothly moving book with a very cocky and interesting main character, who is just learning a small portion of her potential powers. The writing was very readable, and the plot was engaging. I am looking forward to Oathbringer, the next 'proper' part of the series. I hope that Lift will be one of the characters in that book.
272 pp.
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