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Monday, 19 October 2015

The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) - Brandon Sanderson

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?... Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough... then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”


The first instalment in the Mistborn trilogy was great. Sanderson does a great job with the worldbuilding and setting the rules of his magic system, without being confusing or tedious.

The Final Empire takes place on a decadent world which is governed by the Lord Ruler, some kind of god emperor that has been in power for thousands of years and has annihilated every attempt of rebellion. The story begins when Kelsier, a former slave and only survivor of the terrible Pits of Hathsin, start organizing a group to overthrow the Lord Ruler.

What I enjoyed the most of this book was it's simplicity. The story is really straight forward and the lore isn't that hard to understand, in fact the world map is very small compared to other epic fantasy sagas and the action takes place in the Final Empire's capital mostly so you don't get confused by learning other locations.