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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 31, 2015

Discussion: THE FINAL EMPIRE // MISTBORN

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THE FINAL EMPIRE // MISTBORN

PART 3: Chapters 16-25
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Jan 22, 2017 Camilla Sandmo rated it really liked it

I'm conflicted about this book. I had very high expectations, and unfortunately, I felt this book didn't live up to the hype. Here's a few reasons I just couldn't give this book five stars, even though the ending was awesome:

- No female characters besides Vin, who was kind of an emo kid imo. I understand why she was like that, but it's not very interesting when it's mentioned for the tenth time. And there's no other ladies protagonist, just a bunch of dudes. What? Why?
- Too long. So much felt ...more

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Jul 22, 2015 Sandra rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: spies-and-agents, girls-kick-butt, badasses, nypl, dystopia, witches-and-warlocks-and-magic, dual-point-of-view, 2015, assassins, faves-will-own

This was amazing!!! I had heard so many good things about Brandon Sanderson but had never read anything by him. After a ton of booktube videos and tumblr post saying great things about his work, and the covers of this book was interesting. The magic system was fascinating, you learned about it along with our protagonist. The writing was so good, I cared actually was invested in the characters, every death.... It hurt a lot. I loved the different voices that wove the story together. I loved Vin a ...more

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Jul 07, 2020 Cristina Drafta rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Fine, I get the hype now.

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Jan 10, 2015 Andie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ongoing-complete-series, fantasy, not-ya-lit

After hearing nothing but good things about Sanderson via both book blogging on wordpress and also booktubers on youtube, I decided to finally pick up the first of his Mistborn trilogy. It then proceeded to sit on my shelf for a few months before I got around to it. This review is basically nearly two years in the making- it has been nearly a year since I finished reading it, according to goodreads. I have a massive backlog of reviews to get through...This review won't be too in depth because it ...more

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