Somehow none of it takes over the narrative, and everything seems to flow together seamlessly. And we also have balls and intrigue and a bit of romance and infiltration and pretty dresses. We have an immortal ruler we have a somewhat complex social structure we have a depressing landscape where ash constantly falls from the sky and the nights are overtaken by mist we have a fascinating magic system that is at the same time freeing and limited.

And with him a ragtag of very special thieves who ostensibly want money but are deep down looking out for the skaa, the portion of the population who are de facto slaves who keep the nobility rich.ДЄnd the world Sanderson has built is fantastic. We also follow Kelsier, crew leader extraordinaire who has a larger-than-life personality and an insane plan to overthrow the Lord Ruler and cause the final empireвЂ™s collapse.

However, the world is a lot bigger than that. She manages it through a mixture of subservience and using the вЂњluckвЂќ she gathers to influence the people around her. Here we have a third-person narration whereВ Vin, a 16-year-old street urchin recently abandoned by her not-so-loving brother, tries to disappear into the background of the crew for whom she works to avoid beatings and other violence. For a period in my youth, I was really into YA dystopias, and there are quite a few things in this book that felt familiar while opening up a whole new world to me. This book is often cited as one that makes the transition from YA to adult fantasy easy, and though I am in no way an expert, I tend to agree. MistbornвЂ™s concept is a fascinating one: what would happen if the bad guy won and had been ruling the world for the past 1000 years? I eventually bought it from Amazon to discover that none of the books is called that (at least in the UK), but I am now kind of glad I own a pretty boxset (and the UK covers are so much prettier than the American ones). So I had a small breakdown when I couldnвЂ™t find a book called Mistborn in my library. And most reviewers agreed that Mistborn was a good place to start.

So I decided to give it a try even though I am quite new to fantasy.Д«randon Sanderson is an extremely prolific author, who writes both adult and young adult novels, mostly fantasy with some science fiction sprinkled in between. And all of a sudden half-a-dozen strangers were telling me this guy can do no wrong. I tended to choose memoirs, and pop-sciencey non-fiction sprinkled now and then with a random crime procedural fiction book if the cover looked nice. I spent the past 3-years or so reading very few physical books, mainly choosing my books from the selection available in the Audible Daily Deal. And the one thing they all seem to have in common: they all LOVE Brandon Sanderson.Д«randon who? You might ask. And a handful of Booktubers that I really enjoy watching, even if I donвЂ™t necessarily love the same books they do. And through a long, convoluted way, I finally discovered the marvel that is Booktube. Cue 2020 and my partially self-imposed quarantine, where I freaked out and did not leave my apartment for anything in over 2 months. IвЂ™ve been reading reviews on Goodreads and blogs and Amazon/Audible before buying books for years, but never did I think to look into any particular reviewers.ДЄnyway. There is no other explanation for why it took a pandemic for me to realize people actually made videos about books and posted them online. So clearly, I have lived under a rock for the past 10 years or so. I tend to be very chatty, so please skip ahead to each book for the individual reviews if you do not want TMI about my life.

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