A review by shona_reads_in_devon
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

adventurous hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Fancy not discovering this until now.

What an introduction to the world of Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn: The Final Empire is everything an epic fantasy should be. Driven by huge themes like faith, religion, power and friendship this novel has real warmth. Characters that you can fall in love with, root for and be disappointed by. And my favourite sort of plot - where you hold on for the ride and delight in the reveals when they come.

I could quibble. While I was delighted to discover a new word - caliginous - some language veered into repetitiveness - and while I enjoyed the slightly more unusual vocab here - when it was repetitive it was noticeable because of that very fact.

I found some of the more action packed scenes slightly clumsy - the pushing and pulling scenes, while the in-depth descriptions of the Pushing and Pulling enabled me to picture the scenes almost like a film,  it didn't always feel smoothly written and slowed the pace of, what should have been, faster scenes.

But I really am being picky here because I've been led to expect incredible things from this novel - and incredible things I found. Sanderson is about to become a new obsession.