The Way of Kings

Reasons I loved it:

- immersive universe. Some novels I read spend so much time explaining how things work that they read more like a technical document. Others get so tangled up in their specialized terminology that a reader can't keep it straight. This was a brilliant mix ... I was scratching my head with new terms like “spren” and “shardblade” at first. But, by the end, I felt like I lived there.

- Smart characters. People are true to themselves. I love that.

- Imaginative. It's a universe that works.