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Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

Wind and Truth

Brandon Sanderson · 2024
🎙 Narrated by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer
70/100
👍 Worth It

If you have read the four preceding Stormlight Archive volumes, this delivers what the series has been building toward — major arc resolutions, significant character deaths, and serious engagement with PTSD and depression themes. Library Journal gave it a Starred Review, and the Kate Reading and Michael Kramer narration is the definitive voice of the series. If you have not read the prior books, this is a closed door; the content is inaccessible without that foundation, and at 491,000 words it is a substantial commitment even for existing fans.

✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.

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🎙 Narration: excellent Kate Reading and Michael Kramer have narrated every Stormlight volume; Library Journal praised their 'excellent partnership' and AudioFile named Reading a Voice of the Century — the narration is as definitive as it gets for this series.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing84
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy83
Hype vs delivers78
Age-fit82
👁 Human-eye gut-check68
Penny’s verdict70
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