Vanessa's Reviews > Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set

5 stars!! 5 large, golden, beautiful, glowing stars for this amazing series! If I could give it more, I would! A million stars!!! It is seriously the best book I have read in… maybe ever, I don’t know. It is hard to compare favorite books to each other, but this is definitely going on my list of favorites.

Man, this book… what can I say? First of all, I refer to this as a “book” because I got the trilogy on my kindle and read it all in one go. However, it’s really 3 books, creating one giant (2000 pages…) whole. And I’ve got to say, one of the really great things about this series is that, each book – although following a storyline that evolves with each new installment – stands on its own, and has its own story that wraps up at the end. There’s nothing I hate more than a “series” that is basically just one book split into 3, that leaves you with horrible cliffhangers at the end, that you have to wait 2 years to find out what happens… That’s just lazy writing and plans for money-making, in my opinion… but there’s none of that here, which is great.

Another thing is that the world in this series is really unusual. It is a fantasy story, of course, but in this world, ash falls from the sky like snow, mists come out at night, and there are people who can burn metal inside their bodies to give them special abilities. At first, I was a little confused with the descriptions of the metals system and all the pushing and pulling, but eventually it clicked and I could get really involved with the story, and I thought it was a really unique, masterful system.

And finally, the characters are just beautiful and they will all steal your heart. Sazed, I love you so much. And Kelsier and Vin… and Elend… and even poor little Spook. I gasped and cried and squealed in delight reading that book! (all of which I did while riding the train; ensuring a slew of weird stares, I’m sure…) and I just think that it’s really amazing that it was a man who wrote this book, full of love and raw emotions. There is a beautiful love story in there, and there is heartbreak too, and it’s all depicted so vividly that you really get attached to these characters. I could really connect with them. I was crying at the end.

Read this book. READ THIS BOOK!! Do it now!!!