"Mistborn: The Final Empire"

I’ve been meaning to write some posts for a few weeks now.  Further to my recent book purchases, I’ve finished reading the second book I bought, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson.

Words simply cannot describe how much I enjoyed this book.  After the thick and fast action packed battled of Jack Campbell’s Dauntless, The Final Empire was noticably slower, but that only helped the development of incredibly intriguing and interesting world that Sanderson has created in this novel.

The story follows a young girl called Vin, a skaa (the lowest class of ordinary worker) thief with special powers known as Allomancy.  After a botched operation, she attracts the attention of Kelsier, a conman, recently escaped from the harshest, an usually deadly labour camps.  Thanks to his experiences, Kelsier has recently come about his Allomantic powers and takes on Vin as his apprentice and as part of a team he puts together to overthrow the Lord Ruler.

As I mentioned earlier, the universe that the story is set in is quite fascinating.  As part of her role, Vin infiltrates the social scene of the upper classes, through which the toing and froing and politicking of the elite are told to us.

At its core, the story is the revealing of a plan, much like in Hustle (which is a quality TV Show), with a nice dashing of super powers and fantasy thrown in and mixed together to make a delightfully joyful and interesting read.  If you also like programmes like Hustle, and fantasy series like Bored of the Rings then I’m sure you’ll love Mistborn: The Final Empire as much as I did.