Warbreaker (Dramatized Adaptation)

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, Dylan Lynch, Elizabeth Jernigan, James Konicek, Karen Carbone, Ken Jackson, Scott McCormick, Steven Carpenter, Tim Getman

Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation”, the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the god king one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.

Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the god king; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.

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enthralling

love this tour of warbreaker I truly enjoy the cast form of reading and performing thank you look forward to more

Sanderson’s Underrated Standalone

Sanderson covers more story and humanity in this single novel than in his usual two—and those twice as long as Warbreaker. I like Sanderson, but this novel has all his genius with more humanity and a better pace than he usually achieves.

Great story with a reasonable performance

I was hesitant to buy this title as I really like Brandon Sanderson, but don't like dramatized versions of audiobooks. This is the first dramatized audiobook I've listened to which was reasonable.

A Story Worth the Wait

This story is well worth the read. On one hand, Sanderson does a great job at making you invest in the lives of the characters you follow. I will say I listened to the audiobook so my experience may have been different, but I enjoyed each of the main characters. I think the strength of this book is the prose. The color magic system lends itself to vivid description and the author does well at putting you in the world.

The area I found the most trouble with was the ending. One of the major twist was fairly easy to spot once you connect two clear points. I will say, I wish there was just a bit more hinted at for some of the other plot points before we hit the very end of the book. There are some great revelations that come out and overall, I have a hard time being mad with the end product.

This is one of those stories that will grab you and make you feel something. There was one sequence in particular that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to shake and it was so well done.

a wonderful story and production

the three parts story is just great, and the audio production is on a completely different level.

One of the best books you can find

You'll fall in love with the characters immediately and the world is so well developed it feels like a place you could visit.

9.8 out of 10 as the audio mixing sometimes makes it difficult to hear the dialogue.

Confusing at first but stay with it

This book was initially hard to get into because the unusual setting and the way magic works was hard to visualize, but definitely stick with it because the story and crazy twists are so worth it. Took me weeks to get to the first meeting with the God King; couldn’t stop listening after that and finished just days later.

A light read for fans of the Cosmere.

It was not my favorite of Sanderson's works, but it was a very enjoyable read. Fans of the Cosmere will find plenty to enjoy with this one.

effects are too loud compared to the narrator

nothing wrong with the story, is an entertaining book. However the effects and background music are completely unbalanced and cover the narrator's voice, makes it a pain to listen to. I ended up reading the physical book instead.

Would love to hear better

I liked the story, but the background noise is often too loud to hear the characters