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.

Reid has been homeless on the streets of New York for years now, fighting for cash in clubs and sleeping in empty buildings. With his special ability, Reid could have whatever life he wanted, but chooses not to. When Sam meets Reid on the subway, she has a hard time forgetting about him, and not only because he keeps showing up in the least likely of places. Sam doesn't know it at first, but the boy she just met is about to show her a whole other world.

I was accused of attempting to kill my younger sister. No one believed in me, no one to wrap me up. Even my own family. 14-year-old Alisa. I was a 4th princess of Edenberg, and I was miserably thirsty in front of people. I looked at my younger sister, hoping she would stop them from killing me. But what I saw was a devil laughing happily at the sight of me dying. After being executed I opened my new eyes. I was in someone's womb and I could hear voices. Before falling unconscious again I heard a boy's voice saying "Welcome, my precious little sister" He laughed warmly "The whole world loves you." She was reborn as the first princess of the Elmir empire, who was a rival of the Edenburg empire.