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Les Radieux, à l’exception de Kaladin et Lift, sont plongés dans l’inconscience et la tour d’Urithiru est tombée entre les mains des Fusionnés. Navani, prisonnière de la Fusionnée Raboniel, mène avec l’aide du sprène de la tour des expériences pour percer les secrets de la lumière. Pendant ce temps, à Shadesmar, Adolin tente une manœuvre risquée pour rallier les sprènes d’honneur à ses côtés, en acceptant d’être jugé au nom de toute la race humaine pour les crimes anciens commis à l’encontre des sprènes. L’affrontement contre Abjection se précise, mais, avant cela, l’humanité a besoin de soldats.

Au champ de Merrilor, les dirigeants de toutes les nations sont réunis pour soutenir Rand al'Thor ou, au contraire, l'empêcher de briser les sceaux de la prison du Ténébreux. La Chaire d'Amyrlin, Egwene, pense que c'est pure folie. D'autres y voient le dernier espoir de l'humanité.

La Roue du Temps tourne et les Âges naissent et meurent, laissant dans leur sillage des souvenirs destinés à devenir des légendes. Avant l'Ultime Bataille, Rand lutte encore pour unifier des royaumes séparés par d'anciennes querelles, tout en s'efforçant de négocier une trêve avec les Seanchaniens. Autour de lui, ses plus fidèles alliés s'inquiètent. S'il continue à s'endurcir, vidé de toute émotion, aura-t-il la force d'âme requise, au mont Shayol Ghul, pour livrer son duel à mort contre le Ténébreux ?

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death?

From the best-selling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new original creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters and sheer addictiveness. Return to a planet swept by apocalyptic storms, a world tipping into war as aristocratic families move to control the shard blades and shard plates, ancient artefacts from a past civilisation that can win wars.

Book two of the Stormlight Archive. From the best-selling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes an original new creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters, and sheer addictiveness. Return to a planet swept by apocalyptic storms, a world tipping into war as aristocratic families move to control the shard blades and shard plates, ancient artifacts from a past civilisation that can win wars.

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.    

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar’s crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals.

There is a world. One of endless night, surrounded by an even deeper darkness. Filled with nightmares come to life, twisted shapes that slink to windows and ease open doors, sliding across floors to look down on helpless faces. There is another world. A bright world, so bright it burns. Filled with stacked stones that call forth miracles, raised by callused hands that tremble in their work, drained with each stone lifted, settled, lifted again.

Un thriller captivant dans une société futuriste digne de Black Mirror. Dans un futur proche, l'immortalité est à portée de main, mais la vie privée est sacrifiée. Lorsque Holly se réveille avec une nouvelle identité imposée, elle devient une « Réplique provisoire » chargée d'infiltrer un groupe terroriste. Sa mission : retrouver et éliminer son Original responsable de la mort de son mari.

Qui sera le Héros des Siècles ? Pour mettre fin à la tyrannie, Vin a tué le Seigneur Maître. Mais en essayant de fermer le Puits de l'Ascension, elle a laissé s'échapper une des formes maléfiques de l'Insondable. Depuis, les Inquisiteurs et les brumes font toujours plus de victimes, tandis que les cendres qui tombent du ciel menacent d'affamer les hommes et d'ensevelir le pays. Vin et Elend tentent de sauver ce qui peut encore l'être.

When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akina, 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.

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage. Now, as new technological discoveries begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. 

In that first volume, we were introduced to the remarkable world of Roshar, a world both alien and magical, where gigantic hurricane-like storms scour the surface every few days and life has adapted accordingly. Roshar is shared by humans and the enigmatic, humanoid Parshendi, with whom they are at war.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. 

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of the 10 consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor.

The impossible has happened. The Lord Ruler is dead. But so too is Kelsier, the man who masterminded the triumph. The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his protege Vin - a onetime street urchin, now the most powerful Mistborn in the land. Worryingly for her, Vin has become the focus of a new religion, a development that leaves her intensely uneasy.

La série incontournable pour les amateurs de fantasy continue, plus haletante que jamais. Brandon Sanderson signe, une fois de plus, une œuvre vertigineuse, qui allie parfaitement un rythme épique à couper le souffle, des personnages plus vrais que nature et un univers d’une fascinante complexité.

« Eshonai inspecta le bouclier-tempête qu’elle portait dans le dos, puis prit dans sa poche la sphère contenant le sprène capturé par Venli et se cala sur le Rythme de Résolution. L’heure était venue. Les vents se levèrent et firent pression contre elle comme pour l’empêcher d’avancer. Elle sentit et entendit la tempête approcher. Le sol tremblait, l’air grondait. Une rafale glacée charria vers elle des fragments de feuilles, pareils à l’éclaireur d’une armée qui approcherait en chargeant et dont le vent hurlant serait le cri de bataille.