Book Review: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1)

[tari_roo]

Title: The Final Empire
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Pages: 643
What is says on the back: A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A dark lord rules through the aristocratic families and ordinary

Comments

[claudiapriscus]

Heh, we read many of the same books. (Although I am not a fan of big, epic, high fantasy novels, as it happens). I actually liked this book pretty well, though I perhaps was reading it in ideal conditions - a long, hot, hot weekend (well, four days) spent camping out at my grandparents' old house (sans furniture, radios, television, cell phone reception, or internet) and it was my only entertainment in between bouts of cleaning, sanding, painting, and other bits of manual labor

[tari_roo]

Hmmm, I think my frame of mind may also have impacted my experience of the book as I feel a need for action and movement and it wasn't quite the right book for that - initially.

I have read some good things about the other books so I am keen to give them a try :)