Holy shitsticks, this was fun. I’m sure Brandon Sanderson won’t be the last person to play around with evolving his/her fantasy world into some imagined future, but he was the first to do it, and that’s really something. This book actually happened sort of by accident. He was always planning on taking the world of the Mistborn trilogy (called Scadrial) and moving it forward to do two more trilogies, one set in a 1980s equivalent world, and a space opera where Allomancy (magic) exists side […]
How Do They Rise Up?
The following contains minor spoilers. Wading through ash “What if the Dark Lord won?” is the tagline of The Final Empire, the first book in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series. The Lord Ruler rules the Final Empire as a god-king, immortal, immensely powerful and all-knowing. According to legend, he vanquished the Deepness, an unknown evil which would have destroyed the world otherwise. As it is, the battle resulted in massive volcanic eruptions that changed the environment to an ash-covered waste with little vegetation that is barely […]
Fun with guns and metal-based superpowers
As of me posting this, the book is currently on sale for $2.99 on Kindle – so if you think it sounds interesting, now might be a time to try it. In helping me establish some of the background for the plot of this book, here is the Goodreads summary: In the three hundred years since the events of the Mistborn trilogy, science and technology have marched on. Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads, electric lighting, and even the first steel-framed […]
Welcome to Godhood, Hopefully You’ll Have Some Style
When I first picked up the Mistborn series, I didn’t know I was signing up for the Brandon Sanderson pyramid scheme subscription plan. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, because I do love his writing, but his ouevre is extensive and, as far as I know, I am mortal and will someday not even finish a tenth of the books in my library. The Hero of Ages does tie up Vin and Elend’s side of the story (I believe, things were left a […]
I Wasn’t Kidding About Titles
I think I was pretty late to the Brandon Sanderson party. The first book I read by him was Steelheart and I’m pretty sure that came out last year. Like I said before, I only just got back into reading books in the last couple years, so I missed a lot of good stuff. So anyway I liked Steelheart, I had read the first 3 or 4 Wheel of Time books, and I knew Sandy was the one who took over the end of that […]
More Than Just Fantasy Tropes
I promised myself last year that I would finish a few of many, MANY series I’m currently in the middle of before I start something new, so most of my reviews may not be very helpful to people that haven’t yet started a particular series. This is one of those times. I also won’t bore you with my simplistic summary of Sanderson’s world created in the Mistborn series; Sanderson created such a unique and well-crafted place that I can’t do justice to it in a […]
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