Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) in What's the Name of That Book???

Jun 14, 2012 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, fantasy-and-sci-fi, gods-known-and-unknown, heist

I don't even know how to review this!

I listened to the audiobook, and for the first twenty minutes, it was well into NOPE NOPE NOPE territory for me. It was hitting all my NOPE buttons: excessively macho guys having pissing contests, stupid new terms that just BALLOON off the (virtual) page and ruin the narrative flow, loathsome main characters, needless brutality... Plus, I didn't like the reader in the audio version.

Then, at some point (several hours in), it grew on me. I started to look forwa ...more

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Aug 13, 2011 Rachel rated it liked it

Shelves: lds-author

This is some good fantasy: magic with real and predictable rules, relevant lore, practically non-stop action, and exciting reveals. This is the seed of what fantasy should be like.

That said... I hate Sanderson's prose style. It's like he's a classically trained composer who can't help putting another two tonic chords at the end of a symphony: he just can't hold back and be subtle. Things like saying "they were only skaa" and ending a paragraph with "apparently." Using "obviously" and "apparentl ...more

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Apr 16, 2019 Sarani Rangarajan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Not overrated at all

I tried some of Sanderson’s SF and was not impressed. This is one of his most hyped series— I went in expecting to be let down.

I was not. Plot? Excellent. Foreshadowing? Excellent. Character development? Excellent. A light touch with romance, trust, emotions but without stripping characters of them? Yes. A compelling cast of supporting characters? Yes. Two MCs or opposite genders figuring out their relationship, and it doesn’t end up trite? Heck, yes.

Strongly recommend.

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Nov 04, 2009 Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides marked it as decided-not-to-read

Shelves: fantasy-fiction

Some of the sequels looked interesting in the bookstore, so I requested this from the library. Granted, I was only inclined to read, oh, two or three pages. "I'm cruel because I can be" isn't much of an interesting characterization. And "Oh look, it's another fantasy world with slavery" isn't that intriguing either. Maybe there's more to this but ... I am not persuaded. In case that isn't obvious. ...more

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Apr 10, 2019 Mallori rated it really liked it

It took me longer than usual to get into this book because there are a lot of characters and remembering what powers/abilities everyone has took me awhile to get everything straight, so I could just enjoy the book. Now I can't wait to read the next one. I also really like the love story because it is really sweet and I love nerds! ...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Sara ♥ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, 2015, fantasy, books-i-own, romance, 2013

July 15-25, 2015

Took a bit of a break in the middle, but sooooo good!!! :)

January 5-8, 2013

4.5, at least! :) Really quite good!

I need to re-listen to these! (In fact, I just put them on my mp3 player again for a road trip!) Brandon Sanderson is a GREAT fantasy writer! His worlds and characters are SO interesting and well thought out! Awesome!!!

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Jun 04, 2010 Sharon rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio

Super good stuff. Epic and enormous and really great. There's some gender and race stuff that wasn't great (there are exactly three women with speaking roles in this enormous epic novel). But the story is good and thrilling fun. ...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Evan rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

4.25, provisionally, until I finish the series.

An all-around very good fantasy novel. Good coherent new magic system, very good characters, excellent plotting and pacing. I'm going to read a lot more Sanderson. ...more

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