Wow. Just wow. I was enjoying the character development and stories throughout the book, but those last 200 pages were AMAZING! I swear, I couldn’t put the book down. The pacing picked up so quickly that I’m still sitting here wondering what the hell just happened! The war scenes were incredible, the world-building was out of this world, and the reveals were mind-blowing—I mean, I’m perplexed. 

It's difficult to articulate words for a review on this because of how much I want to say. 
I loved it, and will continue following the series from now on.

When it says "High Fantasy," it means it. If you are not a full on fantasy nerd yet, you might struggle with this book. It constantly switches in POVs, timelines, flashbacks, with 5 main POVs and 18 total. Insanely large scale worldbuilding with several detailed cultures, languages, and life styles. Thousands of years of histories, multiple magic and political systems. It's a lot to handle at once, but never once I felt like the book is info-dumping. The page count is totally justified. 

It starts slow, REALLY slow. I can see many people unable to get through it due to the sheer amount characters and information it tries to present. You either love it or hate it.
It is the first book in a massive 10 book series, and it sure does settle the ground for your entry to this whole new world. The "payoff" really only starts at the last 100 pages, the ending is a rapid fire of resolutions that felt so satisfying, yet still leaving for more to be desired on the next book. I read the book across a month, but read the last part in one day. That says something.

Favorite highlights: Leadership. Justice. Trust. Overcoming mental health and grief. Exploring real world problems in a fictional world. And, of course:
"Journey Before Destination."

If you are planning to step into this series, be ready for your brain to be rewired. Now everything you see will be a Stormlight reference!

Extremely well written and creative. Hard to put down even though the pace is slow at times. A lot of very intriguing elements that are still not completely resolved by the end of the first book, so this is not a stand alone volume in the series. 

Listened to this on audiobook during our work commutes, so it was a long slow read with that restriction. But it was fun to have something to look forward to and get sucked into during LA traffic. 

I don’t know if there is a way to describe The Way of Kings, but if I were to try it would definitely include the words epic, astounding, and intense. 

This book is all of those things and more. It is both a great story in its own right and also an amazing opening chapter to a giant series. It introduces us to a fantastic world full of complex characters, and I can’t wait to see where the series is going.

I don’t know how to describe this book, but I can say with confidence that I loved it. 4.5 stars

I really enjoyed this story. The themes of protecting the weaker, sacrifice, and living for others rather than yourself were very well done. I also just really liked the characters. The worldbuilding was interesting to me and Sanderson's style of humor appeals to my own. 

What readers might like to know:
Several parts of the in world religion reminded me of Mormonism, which makes sense since Sanderson is Mormon. 
The story is set in war and includes death and assassinations. 
There is one kiss. 
One of the characters struggles with depression. 

I love Brandon Sanderson, and I love the Stormlight Archive. This book has amazing characters and a compelling plot. It’s long and does drag at points, but what a ride.
Not where I would reccomend starting with Sanderson’s work, but still a book I deeply appreciate. 

It’s a more than a thousand page long study of worldbuilding and character creation.

The world is lively and characters are their own people; all done without any sign of lore dumps or sacrificing the story in any way.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, though I understand how it can be overwhelming; at times a diagram of character dependencies was needed, especially at the start of Part Two: The Illuminating Storms.

Looking back, not that much has happened in this book, but while reading everything seemed so important. Even the smallest details were significant and that made the journey of discovering Roshar along with the characters so thrilling

Can’t wait for more of the Girlboss Duo