Once upon a time, there was a new author named Brandon Sanderson. He was amazing. He was able to take over the massive project that is The Wheel of Time (definitely another post sometime in the future!) and, in many ways, improve upon it.
Then, one day, he started his own massive project, in some ways even more ambitious than The Wheel of Time. The first book is The Way of Kings.
I finished the book in about 4 days (it's over 1000 pages), and really enjoyed it. Granted, I didn't really know what was going on for the first 400 or so pages, but the characters were unique, interesting, and had varied circumstances. I would recommend it to most fantasy readers.
A word of caution: This book is very fantasy. Brandon Sanderson has a tendency to create worlds in which the land itself plays a fairly major part in the story. Hence, the worlds feel quite alien, which sometimes makes it hard to "get into." This book is no exception. However, if you would like to try something that feels a little bit more normal, I would highly recommend Elantris or Warbreaker (which you can actually read online.) Each of these books stands alone, and gives a good taste of Brandon Sanderson's style.
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