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October 2021: Still love this. Neat to see the pieces set up beforehand.
I will be honest with you. I do not want to write this review. Sometimes you just don't want to make thoughts about the things you love. But I have to write this review, at least 250 words, because of made up commitments that I could totally ignore if I really wanted to, but instead hold myself to anyway, because apparently doing that is something my subconscious enjoys.
This book, as theorized, was even better on re-read. ...more
I will be honest with you. I do not want to write this review. Sometimes you just don't want to make thoughts about the things you love. But I have to write this review, at least 250 words, because of made up commitments that I could totally ignore if I really wanted to, but instead hold myself to anyway, because apparently doing that is something my subconscious enjoys.
This book, as theorized, was even better on re-read. ...more
Dearest Reader, it feels like it’s been so long since our last little talk. I FINALLY got to the new Brandon Sanderson book Shadows of Self, which has been eying me suggestively for weeks. And it did not disappoint in the least.
Now, I have to acknowledge having a rocky history with the Mistborn world, as I loathe both Kelsier and Vin (for very different reasons) in The Final Empire and so I never finished the series. I, of course, know the broad strokes of how the trilogy finished, but I feel it ...more
Now, I have to acknowledge having a rocky history with the Mistborn world, as I loathe both Kelsier and Vin (for very different reasons) in The Final Empire and so I never finished the series. I, of course, know the broad strokes of how the trilogy finished, but I feel it ...more
Sanderson has described the pairing of Wax and Wayne to Clint Eastwood and Simon Pegg but the closest I could think was the classic Marvel pairing of Wolverine and Spiderman and that seemed to be more appropriate. This is a superb entry into the Mistborn world. This new trilogy builds on the Alloy of Law where Wax and Wayne were introduced and narrates a wonderfully noirish story in an industrial world
Given the characters and the world they are in, there are numerous flashbacks to the wonderful ...more
Given the characters and the world they are in, there are numerous flashbacks to the wonderful ...more
Second book of the Wax and Wayne Mistborn sequence jumps ahead close to two decades and suffers from a lot of the same problems I had with the first volume. The story itself is engaging (as we expect from Sanderson) but I'm finding it hard to care outside of the overarching plot that will hopefully be fully resolved in the final volume. It's a weird state to be in for a Sanderson book, but there we have it.
I wish I had more to say about it, which might be part of my overall "meh"ness about this. ...more
I wish I had more to say about it, which might be part of my overall "meh"ness about this. ...more
I loved the Alloy of Law, but found this book to drag for me.
Re-read in the lead up to The Lost Metal
Mar 24, 2014
Trish Loter
marked it as to-read
Oct 08, 2014
Jason
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Aug 26, 2015
Laura
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Sep 02, 2015
Doug Sturtevant
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Dec 11, 2015
Alen
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Dec 05, 2016
Eileen Johnson
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Jul 11, 2017
Eric
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Mar 07, 2018
Eric Starker
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Apr 06, 2019
Hayley
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