Chris's Reviews > Mistborn: The Final Empire
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
Chris's review
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Apr 23, 09
Read in April, 2009
It reminds me of Ocean's Eleven meets The Italian Job, but set in Mordor after Sauron has ruled for 1000 years or so. In many fantasy stories, a dark lord is rising and it is up to our heroes to defeat him before that happens. In this, the Dark Lord is already set in place as the status quo and the heroes have to motivate others to want a change.....Yet there is a noble class of The Lord Ruler's flunkies who will need to be scammed and robbed along the way, to finance this big revolt.....I love it...
The pace, style, and grand-heist-scheme-in-a-fantasy-setting plot remind me of Michael J. Sullivan's The Crown Conspiracy while the characters and rags-to-revolutionary story make me think of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Certainly a great blending, as both of these were recent 5-star reviews for me....
Okay, now I've finished it. All I can say is WOW. Why did I wait so long to read this? I must read the other two books in the series very soon.......
The pace, style, and grand-heist-scheme-in-a-fantasy-setting plot remind me of Michael J. Sullivan's The Crown Conspiracy while the characters and rags-to-revolutionary story make me think of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Certainly a great blending, as both of these were recent 5-star reviews for me....
Okay, now I've finished it. All I can say is WOW. Why did I wait so long to read this? I must read the other two books in the series very soon.......
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I'm about 140 pages in so far. I was definitely hooked by the end of the prologue, which doesn't usually happen. If the rest of the book (and series) is as good as what I've read so far, I'm definitely seeing 5 stars for this.
The third book was due out in mass market paperback on April 28th. I didn't want to spend the money on a hardback that I'd read in two days, so I'm anxiously awaiting its release.
I'm about 2/3's of the way through it and am really enjoying it as well. I've already got the other two books waiting for me on my bookshelf. There aren't enough hours in the day!
Nice review, and I because of you I've got a new book on my amazon wish list ;) The Crown Conspiracy sounds quite interesting.
"It reminds me of Ocean's Eleven meets The Italian Job, but set in Mordor after Sauron has ruled for 1000 years or so."Best. Book. Review. Ever.
Added to my to-read. The author should give you a kickback.
Man I totally agree with, I am half way through this one thinking how the he'll have I waited so long to read this... Your comparisons are spot on and I will add it also reminds me of Abhorsen by Garth Nix..
