Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars My first thought after finishing Oathbringer was, “Man, that was long . Really, really long .” Previous entries of the Stormlight Archive are similarly thick; I don’t think a single one is under one thousand pages. Oathbringer not only wins as longest by pure page count, but it also feels longer. I was exhausted well before finishing the book. This is a feeling I didn’t have during Way of Kings or Words of Radiance . The salient difference between the first two books and Oathbringer is scope. The jumping POVs in the three main characters of the first two books, and the interludes, helped give these books a somewhat epic scope, but otherwise the plots stayed localized in Kharbranth and the Shattered Plains. The larger world of Roshar, and its manifold kingdoms and cultures, were mostly a backdrop for the main plots. Oathbringer explodes in scope, drawing in nations from the interludes into the forefront as...