[My new book] starts in 1960 with a woman named Lois Rabinowitz, who was evicted from Manhattan traffic court for attempting to pay a parking ticket while wearing slacks. This was...
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Great Book! It's the first in a trilogy, but for all that is a surprisingly complete story by itself. By this I mean that if you omitted just a paragraph or two from the last chapter, this book could stand alone.
Excellent character development, and a fascinatingly real-world like (truer to physics that Harry Potter, say) magic system. The 'magic' is based on a few people who can metabolize metals and their alloys to produce different effects.
The way he writes makes me understand why this author was chosen to finish the thirteen book series of The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. I was very pleased to see that his writing may be up to the challenge of finishing what many WOT fans would have thought impossible to do well after the death of RJ.
This series (Mistborn) gets even better with the next book, The Well of Ascension. I can't wait for book 3 to come out this October!
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Great Book! It's the first in a trilogy, but for all that is a surprisingly complete story by itself. By this I mean that if you omitted just a paragraph or two from the last chapter, this book could stand alone.
Excellent character development, and a fascinatingly real-world like (truer to physics that Harry Potter, say) magic system. The 'magic' is based on a few people who can metabolize metals and their alloys to produce different effects.
The way he writes makes me understand why this author was chosen to finish the thirteen book series of The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. I was very pleased to see that his writing may be up to the challenge of finishing what many WOT fans would have thought impossible to do well after the death of RJ.
This series (Mistborn) gets even better with the next book, The Well of Ascension. I can't wait for book 3 to come out this October!
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Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
tnelson466, April 2, 2008
Great Book! It's the first in a trilogy, but for all that is a surprisingly complete story by itself. By this I mean that if you omitted just a paragraph or two from the last chapter, this book could stand alone.Excellent character development, and a fascinatingly real-world like (truer to physics that Harry Potter, say) magic system. The 'magic' is based on a few people who can metabolize metals and their alloys to produce different effects.
The way he writes makes me understand why this author was chosen to finish the thirteen book series of The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. I was very pleased to see that his writing may be up to the challenge of finishing what many WOT fans would have thought impossible to do well after the death of RJ.
This series (Mistborn) gets even better with the next book, The Well of Ascension. I can't wait for book 3 to come out this October!
(3 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
Mistborn (Mistborn Trilogy) by Brandon Sanderson
tnelson466, April 2, 2008
Great Book! It's the first in a trilogy, but for all that is a surprisingly complete story by itself. By this I mean that if you omitted just a paragraph or two from the last chapter, this book could stand alone.Excellent character development, and a fascinatingly real-world like (truer to physics that Harry Potter, say) magic system. The 'magic' is based on a few people who can metabolize metals and their alloys to produce different effects.
The way he writes makes me understand why this author was chosen to finish the thirteen book series of The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. I was very pleased to see that his writing may be up to the challenge of finishing what many WOT fans would have thought impossible to do well after the death of RJ.
This series (Mistborn) gets even better with the next book, The Well of Ascension. I can't wait for book 3 to come out this October!
(4 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)