Living up to a really successful book is always hard. The second book expands the world and the characters. It shows off a new magic. It has Wit being himself. It involves more depth into the understanding of Realmatic theory and the Cosmere. It lets several of the characters really come into their own. It moves at a fast pace, and things where you may have been thinking, “Oh, it’s not going to go there at least for a few more books,” happen immediately instead of taking forever. This is all part of my desire and goal for the series. I wrote a really big essay for Tor.com about how I envisioned these books going, where I look at each one as being more than book, where I’m playing with the idea of what it means to be an epic. Words of Radiance went very well in that regard. I plotted it like a trilogy, and wrote it as this one book made of three books. Anyway, I’m just super excited about how it turned out. The major difference between this book and the first book is that Shallan comes more to the forefront. Kaladin’s presence in the second book is about the same as it was in the first book. But this one is more Shallan and has a little less Dalinar than the first one.
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