Mistborn : Final Empire Series
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For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in dread. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and essential terror, perfectly invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison. Kelsier snapped” and establish in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the essential caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Readers of Elantris thought they’d learned a name special in Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn proves they were right.
Brandon Sanderson, fantasy’s newest master tale spinner, leader of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be establish in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that starts in Mistborn.
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in dread. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and essential terror, perfectly invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison. Kelsier “snapped” and establish in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the essential caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Kelsier recruited the underworld’s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his essential dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the breakdown of the divine despot.
But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel’s plot looks more like the essential long shot, until luck brings a shabby girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she’s a half-Skaa orphan, but she’s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect treachery from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.
“A fascinating world . . . one that deserves a sequel.”The Washington Post
“An enjoyable, adventurous read that . . . should satisfy even easily-bored teens.”Locus
“Sanderson’s eerie . . . fantasy, set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, “the Survivor of Hathsin,” against the immortal Lord Ruler’s 1,000-year domination of both the Fantastic Houses and their serflike “skaa.” Through Allomancy bought in the Ruler’s most hellish prison, Kelsier can “burn” 10 metals internally, fueling superhuman powers he uses to assemble rebels in a loose plot to ruin the nobility, the empire and the Lord Ruler himself. Kelsier uses Vin, a street urchin with the same Mistborn powers Kelsier possesses, to infiltrate the Fantastic Houses’ society, where she falls in like with philosopher prince Elend Venture. This mystico-metallurgical fantasy combines Vin’s coming-of-age-in-magic and its well-worn theme of revolt against oppression with copious mutilations, a large-scale cast of thieves, cutthroats, conniving nobles and exotic mutants. Quick-paced action . . . the characters . . . have a raw stereotypic appeal.”Publishers Weekly
“The Sliver of Infinity, the Lord Ruler, is the locus of religious and temporal order in a world in which the skaa are slaves or worse. Half-skaa erstwhile thief Kelsior is the only person to survive and escape the Lord Ruler’s most brutal prison, in which, but, he learned he has the powers of the Mistborn, which are based on the internal “burning” of certain metals, all of which the Mistborn can use, while most others can burn only one. Now Kelsior plans his most daring raid ever, into the center of the palace to learn the secret of the Lord Ruler’s power. Before, his band finds the half-skaa orphan Vin in another thieving crew, where she’s useful because she brings excellent luck. She is also Mistborn and, if she can master and learn to trust her powers, will enable Kelsior’s crew to infiltrate the nobility and possibly overthrow the status quo. Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh complexly in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters.”Regina Schroeder, Booklist
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The excellent:
The magic system is really inventive and clever.
The terrible:
It is basically a protypical fantasy novel. The characters are rather one dimensional and the plot is really basic. The writing is average.
It is a average fantasy book. There are several brilliant that have come out recently like The Blade Itself or The Name of the Wind that I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend before this one.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I am painstakingly perplexed. This book was so tedious, pompous, & constipated I was nearly crying by the time I crawled my way to the last page. His world is appealing.
SPOILER!!!! The concept (an eternal human ruler) is stupid, and it gets even stupider when he gets snuffed in about 5 pages near the end of the book. HUH? An omnipotent ruler, a “slice of God,” if not God himself, and the leader gives him a dirt-nap in just a few pages??
Oh well, whatever. I could have taken that, if I didn’t feel like I was reading something that had been written with about as much sophistication as a 13 year-ancient boy. And how many times does he have to have people rolling their eyes per page? It’s not like anyone ever says anything witty/shocking/appealing. Or maybe they’re just rolling their eyes because they’re ashamed to be characters in such a pretentious book. This guy will be perfect to end Jordan’s trash.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Not impressed at all – very poorly defined characters; implausible plot; does not engage reader at all;
This is not a first-rate work (Tolkien, some of Jordan, etc.), nor it is a second-rate (Bakker, Modesitt, Martin, etc). This is right up there with mystery novels you’d read on the plane…
Why oh why did Jordan choose this guy to end WOT?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Not sure what exactly additional readers liked about this book. In fact, I read it to the end just because of the high comments it got. Otherwise, it would have been the first fantasy book I left unfinished in a while.
It’s pretty terrible – the plot is absurd and ridiculous, the main character, again a 17 year ancient kick-ass girl who is repeatedly allowed to do whatever she likes lacking any substantial consequences in a world where the rest pay dearly for their actions.
The rest of the characters are simply not there – the usual grown-up people who in fact have no thought what’s exactly going on.
It gets better, the world is original and I was attracted to it, but it didn’t overcome the shallowness of the action and the plot.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
While Mistborn itself is really a honestly enjoyable book taken by itself, my advice to fantasy readers looking for a compelling read would be to avoid this series altogether. The second two books are long winded beyond belief and the quality of the writing is very poor. The freakin’ world is ending and the principal characters are sitting around chit chatting about their feelings. Sanderson does know how to bring a tale to a conclusion, so that’s certainly a point in his favor. You won’t get stranded with a cliffhanger after 12 books and 15 years as with some writers I could name.
Still, this is one series I wish I’d taken a pass on.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5