I'm just over halfway through the first book.
I really like the idea of Allomancy (although the words Pushing and Pulling are starting to annoy me), and the Inquisitors are rather neat.
However, it's very simplistic. Does it develop more nuance later on? I mean, the whole "nobles are evil because they don't care about skaa" thing is a little too much.
I didn't like his writing style to start off with, but I've warmed to that. Very much like the extracts that begin each chapter. They give the book a different feeling. I hope something interesting comes of them.
Not sure he's got his characterisatiobn correct yet. Does that improve too? Some of them have a lot of promise (the Lord Actor chap and Sazed, for example), but others are pretty much cardboard cutouts.
So. It's Sanderson's second book, right? I know he gets better at writing, but is that evident in this trilogy?
I really like the idea of Allomancy (although the words Pushing and Pulling are starting to annoy me), and the Inquisitors are rather neat.
However, it's very simplistic. Does it develop more nuance later on? I mean, the whole "nobles are evil because they don't care about skaa" thing is a little too much.
I didn't like his writing style to start off with, but I've warmed to that. Very much like the extracts that begin each chapter. They give the book a different feeling. I hope something interesting comes of them.
Not sure he's got his characterisatiobn correct yet. Does that improve too? Some of them have a lot of promise (the Lord Actor chap and Sazed, for example), but others are pretty much cardboard cutouts.
So. It's Sanderson's second book, right? I know he gets better at writing, but is that evident in this trilogy?
Something very interesting is coming of the blurbs in the chapter headings. I kind of skimmed them the first time and that was a mistake. By Hero of Ages there is a lot of payoff to everything that has been built up, I was really excited when I read it. I liked all of the books, but Hero of Ages is my favorite by far.
Sazed. He just plain rocks.
Characters become more and more complex and fleshed out as you go. Some more than others, but that makes sense to me. Vin and Sazed I think you understand the best by the end. Breeze also is more complicated than you would think, and Spook is adorable.
I enjoyed the series immensely. I've heard the complaints against Sanderson's writing, but I just don't happen to agree. So that's the caveat to my review, I love his writing. Sometimes there's something I can't put my finger on that I think is a bit off, but the characters and the world are so rich to me that I kind of forget after a bit.
Mistborn Trilogy
- 05/07/2010 06:25:33 PM
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I was very pleasantly surprised with Mistborn.
- 05/07/2010 06:29:22 PM
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Nah, it's ok.
- 05/07/2010 06:30:53 PM
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You could always do to Mr. Sanderson what I did to Mr. Butcher...
- 05/07/2010 06:35:56 PM
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I really enjoyed the whole series.
- 06/07/2010 06:24:06 AM
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