Brandon SandersonFantasy · Fiction·b. 1975
Edgedancer
Synopsis
Set between the events of Words of Radiance and Oathbringer, Edgedancer follows Lift — a teenage girl who can convert food into Stormlight through her unique physiology and who is bonded to the cultivation spren Wyndle.
Lift steals from a city festival and finds herself in Yeddaw, a city carved beneath the surface, where she encounters the Herald Nale and a Surgebinder he is hunting.
The novella establishes Lift's irreverent voice, her strange Stormlight abilities, and the disturbing reality that the Heralds of the Almighty — figures revered as divine — have spent thousands of years without the purpose that once defined them, with consequences for their sanity. Originally published in Arcanum Unbounded (2016), Edgedancer was later released as a standalone in 2018.
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How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence
- Lift is one of my favorite characters in Stormlight Archives, hands down. This was so fun. I love the kind of deep questions about mortality that a young girl has to face and come to terms with, when she???s been all alone for years. I can???t wait to see more of her over the next few books and the next Arc.
- Make novellas more important to the overall story. It should not be : You should read this so that you have more context. It should be : You must read this. Otherwise, many things won't make sense in the next book. Loved Lift though.