Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn

Pros: Great action, fun characters, and a riveting magic system.
Cons: Only a little rough, and quite similar to Elantris.

Few things annoy me like a purist declaiming that hard science fiction is the only kind worth reading. To the contrary, I believe that even in the best science fiction the fiction is more important than the science. This is a nuance with which the ...

Pros: vastly entertaining, creative, AND philosophical
Cons: blunt prose, confusing/clunky explanations, still a little rawboned

Brandon Sanderson leapt onto my radar screen with his dazzling debut novel Elantris in 2005. His books, I’ve come to find, make you believe that fantasy can be fun and interesting and deep all at once, and the speculative-fic community must ...

Pros: fun, fast-paced, and mythic
Cons: the middle-book slump

I wasn’t smart – I read Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn the year it came out, when there were no sequels in sight, so I had to wait a year and half to read the second book in this ...

Pros: Everything -- see review.
Cons: It will look too long for some, but it leaves you wanting more.

A thousand years ago, the skies were blue and a golden sun shone down upon green plants. But, all was threatened by a vague evil named the Deepness, that could destroy everything good. A man named Alendi went into the far northern mountains of Terris, to ...

Pros: Unique magic, original storyline, and perfect characters that I love dearly.
Cons: Tends to be a bit gory at times.

I actually bought this book on a whim. I happened to be in a bookstore that had a sign-up list to reserve a signed copy of Mistborn. I was skeptical but the title intrigued me. Then the clerks showed me what the cover looked like. My reaction was, "Dude! ...

Pros: Completely unique magic system and Interesting Plot.
Cons: Some characters aren't mentioned as much I would have liked.

For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler has reigned over the Final Empire. The Skaa, or the commoners are forced to work for the noblemen of this world. Ash falls from the sky by day and by night, the mists roll in and cover the land. Trees are brown and ...