Warbreaker

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stormlight Archive and the Mistborn series, 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; of the God King one of them has to marry; of the lesser god who doesn't like his job; and of 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 Hallendren'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; Lightson, reluctant god of bravery; and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.

TOR BOOKS, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING, 2009.