Warbreaker

Okay, simply put: this book crippled my abilities to do other homework while I was reading it. Seriously. When I started reading this I was very taken with the main character, the younger princess...obviously her name has escaped me. I loved that she was disobedient and loved color and the outdoors and places she shouldn't be...actually, I find she was very much like Lyra from the Golden Compass. Breaking from my obsession with disobedience; I really enjoyed the whole story. I loved that when something unexpected happened, I wasn't expecting it. I really really loved the role that color played in the story as well. The descriptions of the different kingdoms was also very interesting, in the ways the buildings looked, the people dressed, and the way they acted. There were so many elements in this story, you'd think that things would get muddled and there would be too much, an overload. But I thought all the parts were in harmony with eachother. The royalty, the gods, the poorer people, those with breath, the undead, so many characters, but none of them really seemed excessive to me. I enoyed reading Warbreaker so much, I might even give it another go, when I can have no distractions of other assignments! Good idea. Maybe I will.