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8/10
Mistborn – The Final Empire
Reviews / April 6, 2021

by Brandon Sanderson So the time has finally come when I finish the first book in the Mistborn trilogy. And I’m very conflicted and find it hard to write this review. I had heard so many great things about this series, been recommended it by I don’t know how many people. I suppose my expectations might have been set a little too high here. The book is good, no doubt about it, but is it great? I’m not sure. I like fast books where things happen all the time, where there’s little time to rest. I’m perhaps impatient, I want to get to the resolution and don’t have time for meandering along paths that don’t lead straight to where I want to go. And this book is far from a fast read. I should have known it wouldn’t be considering what I know about Sanderson and his writing, but I was still surprised about the level of “slowness” that this book gave me. So, to actually get into the review. We follow Kelsier and Vin, two people with a rare magical gift that makes them able to ingest and use metals to alter their physical world and/or the people that…