Mistborn

The Final Empire

paperback, 672 pages

Published May 13, 2014 by Tor Teen, Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-7713-5
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4 stars (22 reviews)

A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians.

Alcatraz Smedry doesn't seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutzines

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reviewed The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #1)

Re-read Review

5 stars

Content warning re-read discussion with full cosmere spoilers.

Buen trasfondo, interesante sistema de magias

4 stars

Por fin me puse con esta saga. El resultado, para mí, es bueno pero me hubiera querido que me gustara mucho más, pero no lo ha conseguido :(

El mundo que se ambienta, la opresión, tanto natural como humana es interesante, clasismo, casta, naturaleza, especies, todo me hace querer saber qué hay más allá de Luthadel y alrededores y por qué todo es así.

El sistema de magias me parece muy original, orgánico, crudo, invisible y en cierto modo, peligroso de manejar. Con un episodio de infodump marcando las claves de su uso.

Pero el argumento del libro es frágil e ingenuo. No me convenció el objetivo final ni su fuerza para llegar a él. Al igual que la evolución de los personajes, tienes que creerte que un personaje ha cambiado por la triquiñuela del pensamiento interno de otros, lo que te fuerza a ver que ha cambiado, cuando no …

Review of 'The Final Empire' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Things Sanderson excels at:
World building (overall), characterization, creativity, and plot.

Things he's sort of terrible at:
Language (get the man a thesaurus, the word 'stone' three time in one sentence? Really? And 'maladroit' starts standing out when you use it multiple times per chapter. Or paragraph.)
Pacing.
There are also a number of minor issues of continuity.
Also, I got extremely tired of Sanderson using child labor/cruelty to children every time he wanted to evoke pathos. EVERY TIME.

Then there's the fact that I still have no clue how women are regarded in this world. You have them being treated worse than male Skaa, what with the constant rape/murder by nobles threat, and in noble society they seem to be more or less where Victorian English women were as far as lack of basic rights went. Yet as soon as Vin gets out of her thieving crew, she'd treated …

Review of 'The Final Empire' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

not since [a:Robin Hobb|25307|Robin Hobb|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205023525p2/25307.jpg] has a fantasy author gripped me with such a tome. I have truly adored the [a:Dave Duncan|30279|Dave Duncan|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg] I've been reading of late, but his longest work would barely mar the dust jacket of one of these.

The world is stunning - not rich or vibrant but downtrodden and poor. the characters are so much more vivid as a result - combined with the excellent narrative and superb mastery of pace, the story unfolds and keeps you coming back for more. it's a self-contained story in and of itself, but leaves so much of the history and even more of the future open for speculation and further works, of which I tend to partake posthaste.

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