208 pages
English language
Published April 2, 2020 by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC.
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea.
Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri's recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate …
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea.
Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri's recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.
I've been re-reading The Stormlight Archive to prepare for the upcoming novel and had missed this one. It's quite fun and very intriguing on what it reveals, both for Roshar and the Cosmere.
For a longer review, check out my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2024/10/book-review-dawnshard-by-brandon.html
Loved it. Spoilers are for all cosmere in this review.
1. Rysn is at the Third Heightening! (Or maybe fourth?)
2. Chiri-Chiri will become a full-sized larkin! Yay!
3. New Oathgate - interesting implications, but its gonna be pretty hard to transport armies via that, since the naval fleet isn't doing well.
4. I loved how Rysn's trading skills were put to use, both throughout and for the climax
5. Nikli is gonna be interesting to watch out for.
6. Wondering how the Sleepless communication works. Do they all have connected gemhearts?
7. Cord getting a shardplate is yay!
8. Rock was bearer of the Bow? For some ancient ritual. How come this has never come up before... And Cord mentions a pact that prevents Gods from hurting her.. interesting.
9. The Dawnshard was moved to Roshar via the Purelake. I'm guessing this was from either Yolen or Nalthis (given …
Loved it. Spoilers are for all cosmere in this review.
1. Rysn is at the Third Heightening! (Or maybe fourth?)
2. Chiri-Chiri will become a full-sized larkin! Yay!
3. New Oathgate - interesting implications, but its gonna be pretty hard to transport armies via that, since the naval fleet isn't doing well.
4. I loved how Rysn's trading skills were put to use, both throughout and for the climax
5. Nikli is gonna be interesting to watch out for.
6. Wondering how the Sleepless communication works. Do they all have connected gemhearts?
7. Cord getting a shardplate is yay!
8. Rock was bearer of the Bow? For some ancient ritual. How come this has never come up before... And Cord mentions a pact that prevents Gods from hurting her.. interesting.
9. The Dawnshard was moved to Roshar via the Purelake. I'm guessing this was from either Yolen or Nalthis (given the effects of the Dawnshard on Rysn)
10. Someone get Rushu next to Khriss please.
11. I liked Rysn's portrayal with her disability and I think Brandon handled it pretty well, giving her viewpoint proper care.
12. I hadn't realized that the voidlight radiant was a Lightweaver.
13. The ship fabrials sounded amazing (weight-stabilizers built inside the hull, and the automatic pumps for keeping water off the deck). Wonder how they were charging the gems for those.
14. I love when obvious solutions are used/accounted for old problems. Like Lopen suggesting he could just fly more grain. Or Lopen sticking the captain's foot to the Deck.
15. I figured out the Mandra/luckspren bonding with Chiri Chiri connect before Nikli explained it - so nicely foreshadowed.
What I didn't like, or could have been done better:
1. The sailors. Their characters fell a bit flat, mostly due to a lack of screen time. 3 died, and we didn't even get their names
2. No Hoid (I think). I needed more Yalb.
3. The fake gems. Aimians could surely have done gotten real ones, no?
