Criminally light reading but compelling nonetheless. ( )

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Still pretty good on the second go-round. Some of the simplicity sticks out along with a few klunky plot holes but as an adventure it's still one of the best. ( )

If you have a need to be anti-social for a while, and don’t we all at some time or another, this is the book for you and despite its title it is the first in the Mistborn series. After featuring it in an article on my blog of what people might like to read while Game of Thrones was off the air, I decided I would give this a try to see if it really was a worthy substitute.

I was immediately pulled into this book from the first line, and soon felt comfortable with characters that I came to regard as the mains in this epic. There is a strong female who, despite all odds, manages to survive and then actually thrive in this bizarre environment the Author places her in. Add to this a loveable rogue who teaches her everything she needs to know about using her newly found powers, and this all adds to up characters that readers can connect to and want to follow on their travels. However, not all the characterizations in this book are as well done as these two I have mentioned, some of them were lacking in descriptiveness and I found myself at some points hard pushed to remember their role in the plot.

It is often hard for an Author in this genre to come up with something new and different, but it appears in this book. The ‘magic’ used in its pages was unique and used items that I had not come across before in other books. From the way the magic is described and explained it is obvious that a lot of thought went into this system as the Author wrote this book, and it works well as it plays a major part in the action of which there is definitely plenty. When writing about the battles waged using this magic, the Author was very careful to stick to the rules he had created and applied to it, and there was not a point where I found myself having a ‘hang on, didn’t you say....’ moment. World building was not skimped on either in this novel, it is not just a strange environment that happens to be there, but has a history behind how it came to being, and this is just as interesting as the plotline itself.

The downside for me whilst reading this was the dialogue, it had a tendency to take the safe road, and use dialogue that can be found in most books of this genre which made some of the conversations a little unbelievable and also, in some cases, as if the book itself were intended for a much younger audience. However, this was just a minor peeve and didn’t pull away from my enjoyment of the book as a whole.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an epic fantasy read that will keep them engrossed with every turn of the page. I will definitely be reading more in this series.


Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.com/2014/10/08/review-mistborn-the-final-empire-mistborn-...





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Solo puedo decir WOW me ha encantado ( )