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Better than the second, the third and final Mistborn era 2 book returns to deliver a mostly thrilling mystery, but lacks a proper ending. The resolution relies hard on deus-ex-machina (sometimes quite literally) characters from other Cosmere books in what is probably meant as a tie-in, but feels more like a washing out of what used to be core Mistborn (the series, not the magic users) characteristics. The big twist was foreshadowed, but I still looked forward to the reveal. Although I would liked it too be more towards the middle of the book too leave some room to play with the implications, it sadly marked the rather unsatisfying end. Not the best, not the worst from Sanderson. I'll still continue right with the next....

Read that too late, should have started right before going into the second era books. Now with things from the first era being a bit fuzzy already, I probably wasn't enjoying the secret links and notes but as much as I could have. I still enjoyed the later-Stormlight vibes and tying the Mistborn series into the greater Cosmere. I felt the original books didn't need that backstory, but maybe the character did. Pretty subjective if you count that as a flaw of the original books. I see it as a glimpse of hope for future books trying things closer together.

Should have read this earlier, but did only adds a very small point to the backstory of the protagonist of the first Mistborn books. That point becomes more relevant after reading Secret History, but even that one is a bonus to the Series, so I read it more for completeness sake than anything else.

Turns the series from a western into a spy thriller. For my taste, this one relied a bit too much on events happening in other books. I did not remember everything a clearly as I would have to. Also, a lot of the 'resolution' is projected into future work. Clearly meant to open up the rather small scope of the last books into something more akin to the world-transforming first books, this felt a little forced and let me put down the book a few times.

A vacation-purchase read half already. Fun, but a bit of in-between tones.

Started reading and couldn't turn it away for half the book. (At which point I had too, not the books fault.) It's rather complicated to follow all the timelines it tries to tell you from which it switches constantly between. There are subtly color-coded, but it's still something you need to keep you concentration on. Tragic world-war(s) family history and classic video game development backstory isn't something you see often mixed, but it surely hits my nerve. Will surely continue to read ...