Mistborn: The Final Empire

Posted by kay on February 7, 2009 2:06 am in 5 stars reads | 0 comments

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

I finally did it; after looking at it with a suspicious eye, I finally bit the hook and read Mistborn. And I loved it!

Let it be known that, although I love fantasy books, I rarely go and find books of this genre by myself. My skill at finding great fantasy books isn’t good, as I am often fooled by the pretty images on the cover. After my man, and his mother, and his mother’s husband insisted that I really should read it, I had no other choice than to commit to it.

At first, the setting might seem to be the same as any other. Bad guy rules empire. Good-bad-guy wants to kill him, and save the world. Cute young woman helps him while discovering who she really is. But the story is much more than that; the characters are neither black nor white, but somewhere in between, and Sanderson’s writing describe their fears and joices and dilemnas with depth. The magic’s mechanics are interesting, but more than that, I enjoyed the author’s understanding of what is leadership: choices, consequences, difficult decisions, the power of the words, etc. Even the ending leaves you uncertain.

I won’t say more for now; this book is the first of the trilogy, so although I can give it a rating for itself, I can’t judge completely until I read the 3 books. This should be done soon, without a doubt!