brandon sanderson

It’s rare to read a fantasy series that truly distinguishes itself in character and plot. The first 20 pages reminded me of R.A. Salvatore, bare details and questionable characters. However I was quickly proven wrong with none of the characters conforming to the set fantasy archetypes. Sanders spins three fleshed out books full of unique people and even more impressively, a unique mythology and world. We’re brought into a dark and muted world, whose skies are blighted with consistent ash falls. Plants and animals that struggle to exist in a world of limited sunlight. A planet populated by a slave class called the Skaa and the nobility, who are the descendants of those that supported the ascent of the god king the high ruler. Interbreeding with the Skaa results in children being born with the ability of too burn one or two metals, known as Mistings. Rarer still are those that are born with the ability to burn all of these metals, they are the Mistborn. The aspect that I