A Yale dean who's a member of Lethe, one of the college’s famously mysterious secret societies, offers Alex a free ride if she will use her spook-spotting abilities to help Lethe with its mission: overseeing the other secret societies’ occult rituals. The protagonist of Bardugo’s ( King of Scars, 2019, etc.) first novel for adults, a high school dropout and low-level drug dealer, Alex got in because she can see dead people. Most Yale students get admitted through some combination of impressive academics, athletics, extracurriculars, family connections, and donations, or perhaps bribing the right coach. Yale’s secret societies hide a supernatural secret in this fantasy/murder mystery/school story. 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. 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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