The Darkness That Comes Before

About The Darkness That Comes Before

A philosopher-warrior who has mastered the science of human behavior to near-omniscience joins a holy war that is being manipulated by forces no one in the world has the framework to understand. Bakker builds a secondary world as deeply realized as Roshar — the linguistics, philosophy, and theology are all internally consistent — and the cosmic stakes make Stormlight feel almost optimistic by comparison.

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