Gripping fantasy adventure and promising trilogy opener

Gripping fantasy adventure and promising trilogy opener

Mistborn 1.The Final Empire (Paperback)

Customer Review

If the content description for The Final Empire Perusing so, the kick-off band of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy initially seems like an ordinary fantasy novel: an oppressed people, a tyrannical ruler and a small group of rebels that the system of terror and oppression want to bring down. That the plan, with only a handful of men and a young girl to overthrow an immortal dictator and to conquer his tens of thousands strong army seems little prospect of success, is the participants themselves clearly, but not least since JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is known as Reader that you can achieve much good stuff even with a small retinue and a lot of courage and heart. Of course, such a coup is not planned short-hand and requires months of preparation and so The Final Empire starts initially rather slowly, but what Brandon Sanderson is the time to introduce the scene of his story and its characters carefully. This works the prolific writer also very good and after a few pages a very intense and oppressive atmosphere is established: a people without hope, the ever-present fear of terror ruler and his henchmen and external influences such as regular rain of ash and resulting a world free from green plants and other signs of a functioning ecosystem capture an early and quickly pull into the story.

The two protagonists, the 16-year-old Vin and the adult and experienced Kelsier, you close the reader almost immediately into the heart. It's easy to put yourself in the role of a young girl who has been just disappointed by all her loved ones, facing each suspicious and seems given the sobering prospect of a hopeless life for anything. And Kelsiers charm can escape impossible: He has already experienced in his life so many bad things, he was taken everything he loved and still or perhaps also why he is determined to make the impossible possible and his people to give new hope and always with a smile and always in good spirits. Add to that a magic system with its easy to learn, hard to master principle equally beginner-friendly and fascinating. In Sanderson's world because there are two categories of exceptionally talented people who are able to put before the body supplied metals in magical powers: so-called Mistings each may have recourse only to a particular metal, the significantly more powerful crap Borns (as Vin and Kelsier) are the full range of eight different metals and thus unlimited possibilities available when you have learned to deal with these forces.

All these subtleties brings Brandon Sanderson its readers to very patient and understandable way in, so you should also have a fantasy beginners no difficulties in adapting to the world of Final Empire. The story itself is rather clear for most of the book, focusing on a small number of characters, but, despite the leisurely pace never boring because there are just simply so much to discover. However, if you're hoping for the big spectacle, must be apart from a few short but crisp action sequences to the final act of this wait has it but then really in itself. After previously largely linear story Sanderson boasts here with some surprising (and in some cases painful) turns that complete successfully the story and give her a really coherent and satisfactory end. Overall, I would have then but perhaps desired a more complex world in which you sometimes can take more than just a glimpse of the city limits of Luth needle out and learn more about the history of the Final Empire this Sanderson seems still for aufzusparen the upcoming volumes. In addition, I would have Sanderson's world a little quiet dirty and brutal desired, more noticeable and the story a little emotional to me are the two main characters did grow the cruelty and hopelessness of life in the Final Empire fond, some blows of action had but then a more superficial effect on me. Nevertheless me the first Mistborn band has a total very much and gives me a lot of pleasure during the more than 600 pages and I'm eager to see how it goes with the story in the coming books.

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