David Rubenstein's Reviews > The Way of Kings

This is a marvelous story, full of interesting characters and histories. Sanderson has developed a unique world in which magic is ... well, I don't quite understand it. Even the characters in the story don't really understand the magic. So, that is probably by design.

I've got to say that the beginning of the book was rather slow. But the plot picked up after a while. The ending was perfect.

It's a very long book -- and I did not read it, instead I listened to the audiobook. All 45 hours. There are two narrators; Kate Reading reads the portions of the story that are primarily about female characters, while Michael Kramer reads all the rest. And he is a fantastic reader. I could tell which of the major characters was speaking, simply from their accents. My only complaint is that the two readers should have gotten together to agree on how to pronounce the name of Sadeus.