Today I just finished reading the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I briefly mentioned reading it in this post a few weeks ago. The series was pretty damn good! At first I thought it was a standard cliche fantasy type stuff, but the book definitely stood apart. What I think made it stand apart the most was the system of magic used in the series. No wands nor spells, but instead there was a very unique system of magic involving metals. Most notably there were the allomancers, which could burn metals in their stomachs giving them unique powers such as strength, heightened senses, or other enhancements. There were also several variations of powers granted by metals, but I don’t want to spoil too much of the books.
Also something else that I thought was great about the series were some of the evil dudes such as the inquisitors or the koloss. The inquisitors were just freaky with metal spikes driven through their eyes and somehow they still survive. Or there are the koloss who start off with skin that just loosely hangs off of them. The thing is they never stop growing, so slowly their skin gets taught, then as they get bigger their skin begins to split causing them to have bleeding rips all over their body.
Anyways if you’re into fantasy novels I recommend that you pic this one up. It’s pretty good for the genre…not on LOTR or Harry Potter level, but still entertaining.
