
The Final Empire
Mistborn Book 1
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Michael Kramer
From number one New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely 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 found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate 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 ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot. But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged 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 betrayal 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.
This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?
Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson
- The Cosmere
- The Stormlight Archive
- The Way of Kings
- Words of Radiance
- Edgedancer (Novella)
- Oathbringer
The Mistborn trilogy:
- Mistborn: The Final Empire
- The Well of Ascension
- The Hero of Ages
Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series:
- Alloy of Law
- Shadows of Self
- Bands of Mourning
- Collection
- Arcanum Unbounded
Other Cosmere novels
- Elantris
- Warbreaker
The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series:
- Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
- The Scrivener's Bones
- The Knights of Crystallia
- The Shattered Lens
- The Dark Talent
The Rithmatist series:
- The Rithmatist
Other books by Brandon Sanderson
- The Reckoners
- Steelheart
- Firefight
- Calamity
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Enter Sanderson's Cosmere at your own risk. I regret nothing.
Prepare for sleepless nights
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Engaging Read
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Solid Fantasy
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Seems more like a setup for books 2 & 3.
I personally won't be continuing this series but it might be worth the read/listen for others.
Not what I expected
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Excellent Fantasy Series
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Really unique and magical...with a good twist.
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Which brings me to another thing I loved about the book: there is a place in this world for religion. Or rather there was a place, before the Lord Ruler, the Ultimate Bad Guy, outlawed all forms of religion. But one of the main characters, who belongs to a fascinating group of people called “Terrismen,” has spent his life collecting what information he can of the lost religions of this world.
Speaking of religion, there are Inquisitors in this world, and they are the baddest baddies since the Ringwraiths or maybe the Shrike (Dan Simmons’ Hyperion). I cannot get the image of these evildoers out of my head: they have metal spikes driven right through their eyes and out the backs of their heads! Sanderson definitely has a gift for creepy images, because there is another being in the Mistborn world that is nearly as terrifying as the Inquisitors, and that is the Mistwraiths. These beings wander in the mists of night, scavengers who pick up old bones, absorb them and form them into weird bodies that combine everything they have absorbed. A single mistwraith can have animal bones, human bones, multiple heads, multiple limbs . . . altogether a unique and disgusting concept that is terrifically well described by Sanderson.
Also unique is that the protagonist of the book is a woman, and Sanderson does a great job of portraying her realistically. Even though she gains enormous power over the course of the narrative, the author does not forget her origins, and her origins continue to define how she reacts to her circumstances throughout the book. In fact, all of the characters, even the minor ones, display realistic motivations for their actions, and come across as very real. Another couple of notches in the “loved it” column.
This book was so good, I didn’t even notice how long it was (24 hours in the audio version). When I finished, I immediately downloaded the next book in the series and started it. Thank goodness for long car rides!
[I listened to this as an audio book read by Michael Kramer, who is AMAZING.]
There is nothing I did not love about this book
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If you could sum up The Final Empire in three words, what would they be?
It was a good read. Not blow my socks off, but worth the purchase. It would be a PG-13 rated movie, mild violence.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, never engaged me that strongly.Good Read
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I was not at all intrigued by the narration, though. Kramer has a tonal quality that is somewhat off-putting to my eardrums.
Pretty Good.
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A weak effort
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