SOLVED. YA Fantasy. "Burning" different rocks gives people access to different powers. [s]

[[deleted user]]

Hi!

I'm looking for a book where the MC is the son of a miner and lives in a mining village where special rocks are mined. Different rocks can be used by certain people for different powers. Like super-strength, super-speed, walking on water, controlling the ground etc. A neighboring kingdom\province or comes into the kingdom to kidnap a princess in order to get their own prince back or something along that lines. The MC then accidentally helps the enemy forces and eventually his own town is under siege. That's most of what I can remember.

I read the book somewhere in the last few years (2018-2020)

I already went through my Amazon history and read books on Goodreads, but couldn't find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Update:
I found the book thank you!

[Kris]

Louis, what's the genre (which we need to add to the topic header/title) - e.g., fantasy or science fiction, for teens or adults?

How old is the main character? Any romance?

[Kim]

The magic system sounds very like the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, but I haven't read the whole series so not sure. Does that sound familiar?

[Gillian]

I second the Mistborn series. The characters burn metals rather than rocks though.

[Rainbowheart]

The Final Empire for the link to the first in the Mistborn series.

[Eugene]

The magic system does sound almost exactly like the Mistborn series, but the rest of the description bears no resemblance to the books. The protagonist in the first trilogy is a street urchin girl, not a son of a miner, there are no kingdoms, no princesses, and no sieges. The second trilogy is steampunk rather than medieval, so, no princesses there either.

I did some searching but I couldn't find anyone else using anything like that.

Any idea if this was a recently published book? It has to be either an obscure modern YA book whose author more or less copied the Mistborn magic system, or an equally obscure, very old book that everyone already forgot by the time Mistborn came out (so, 80s or further back).

And could you be mixing up two different books? This could be the magic system from Mistborn that got confused with the plot from, say, Black Prism.

[SBC]

Is it Set in Stone by Frank Morin? Someone else recently asked about a book which turned out to be this and it sounds similar - see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[[deleted user]]

SBC wrote: "Is it Set in Stone by Frank Morin? Someone else recently asked about a book which turned out to be this and it sounds similar - see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Yes, it is Set in Stone! Thank you very much! Gonna read it again now :) You made my day

[SBC]

I’m glad I could help- I’ll have to add this one to my to read list too!