By Brandon Sanderson
Genre Fantasy
600+ pages
Summary:
there is a cool thing that happens to some people to give them magic powers, randomly. They live in a nice city and do things for the populace. A curse strikes it, and the crown prince gets the curse. A religious army from another nation wants to invade. Boy meets politically minded girl, everyone learns some things about themselves, and a fairly happy ending.
Rating on a scale of -10(most nonfiction. Can't make it past page 50.) through +10(books I read in one day regardless of how long they are): 5 - It went down smooth enough but followed 3 characters around, which can be confusing, and there was a character I just couldn't get interested in. I kept wanting to skip sections he was in. The boy and the girl he meets were nicely done, however. I COULD put the book down and wasn't motivated to read till 2am on weeknights, which always makes me a little sad. The author obviously cared a lot about his characters and his world, but I would like to see if the world is expanded upon in another book, because there's more that could be done.