After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson 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, 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. 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; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.

The thing about white lies, is that they darken more than the real ones actually. They start out trying not to hurt someone, but that's all they do. Hurt. I tried to protect him; but I didn't' know how. So I lied. It was only because he was my bestfriend. Because I love him. This secret you ask? Well, my parents died. And I have gastric cancer. How I managed to hide that for so long? No clue. I was willing to do anything to cover it up. When I realized how wrong it was, it was too late. More lies, losses, and love.

Things can fall apart as easily as they fall together, meeting 5/5 changes their lives drastically, for better or for worse. Some secrets are best kept but for those involved, secrets are just what destroys them.

Emily Smith is not a normal teen, she's a spy in training thrust into a life where everything is Classified. Her mother is training her in the ways of Espionage and Stealing. Emily may not be the best spy/thief ever, but she knows when something is not right. Her classified life suddenly becomes way more complicated when Emily meets a seemingly normal boy on a practice session who shows up again halfway across the world on a another one. Can Emily figure out what this boy is up to? How will she face the dangers along the way? Lucky for you, that information is not classified. "My phone between us flashed with a new text message and I grabbed it lightning fast and opened the text up. The screen before me only held two words, but those words shook me to my core. I dropped the phone like it was on fire and Christina picked it up immediately. 'Hello, Emily." she read. 'Em, did you-' 'I didn't tell him my name.'"