All things Brandon Sanderson

Note that Shadows of Self came out today... It snuck up on me until it popped up on my phone. What a pleasant way to wake up, more Mistborn!

Going to finish up the Jim Butcher steampunk book then head into this.

Felt like I read it too fast after finishing...

I liked it, but thought it was not one of his best. Did not enjoy it as much as the stormlight ones. Probably on par with the latest reckoners IMO.

I did get to feel a bit smug when I found I'd nailed the major plot twist several years before he actually wrote the book though.

I've never been that enthusiastic about the mistborn stuff, though I'll get to this one eventually, but if you disparage reckoners again I shall have to fight you to defend its honor.

Finished Shadows of Self and happened to tap the twitter link at the end only to find out Sanderson is giving a talk right now at a theater a couple miles away. Wish I had seen that earlier *sigh*

Thanks for posting that link. I didn't realize the Shadows of Self will be the first of three books with Alloy of Law more like a prequel. I am glad he is postponing the third book until after book 3 of Stormlight.

I just finished Shadows of Self and really enjoyed it, though I've always been a big fan of mistborn. While it maybe isn't as good as the Stormlight books, I really love the whole allomancy/feruchamy system and the characters in the books. I'm really excited to see how it goes, especially with the end of Shadows of Self and I'm also really excited about Sanderon's plan in the link Gnomedolf posted above - a third mistborn trilogy thats potentially a space opera with metal magic and? Sounds like it could be amazing if Sanderson pulls it off right. And in general seeing how all of these series play together, as again, in the link above, it seems like all of these books take place over a vast timeline and yet are all still linked together.

I also thought Hoid showing up briefly as the carriage driver was a nice touch. The only thing lacking from this new arc so far in my opinion is full blown mistborns, though I can't imagine one won't show up at some point. Having allomancers/feruchamists and even a few with one of each like the main characters is nice, but it lacks the awesomeness of the original trilogy that we got with Kelsier and Vin who got to do all the cool shit.

http://www.tor.com/2015/10/23/brando...rchive-book-3/

Flashback chapter in book 3.

Gnomedolf_sl said:

The next Misborn book, The Bands of Mourning

Amazon.com: The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn) eBook: Brandon Sanderson: Kindle Store

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Sounds awesome. I'm just hoping at some point we get some full fledged mist born worked back into the series.

I'm 3/4 of the way through the latest Mistborn and am having a hard time giving a shit about it. Wax/Wayne are great characters but something about this whole story is just dull. Sanderson is a terrific writer but sometimes his need to cram a dramatic female heroine into every novel just feels way too forced.

Yeah, I haven't touched the new one, but the whole western Mistborn stuff is just dull. It feels like I'm reading an episodic tv show rather than reading a novel series.

Sanderson just tweeted he wrote over 50,000 words into TSA3 this month.. that man is out of control!
OUT OF CONTROL