Although it took me longer then I thought, I finally finished Words of Radiance the second novel in The Stormlight Archive. I really enjoyed the first book Way of Kings but it had a really slow start. The same can not be said for Words of Radiance. It picks up right where the last book left off and then just hits the gas pedal for over 1,000 pages of amazing fantasy writing.

I love this series. I absolutely adore it. However, I still had major reservations on whether Brandon Sanderson would be able to pull off finishing the trilogy as well as he started it. The good news is that I think Calamity is a brilliant novel and is just as good if not better then the two novels (Steelheart & Firefight) before it. 

It's been a long time since I've read a good meaty fantasy epic. The last one I read ended up being one of my favorite books of all time, The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Since then I've had major trepidations about jumping into another one in the fear that it wouldn't live up to the big shoes of both Rothfuss and the George R.R. Martin fantasy epics A Song of Ice and Fire. And yet I purchased a book a couple years back called The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Its easily one of the best rated books on my Goodreads "to-read" list and I finally took the plunge.