A Book Review
“Mistborn” by Brandon Sanderson
The young adult fantasy that took my breath away: Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn” is a must-read.
I am not a fan of young adult fantasy.
But every now and then I come across a book (or a series) so fabulous, that I stay up for the entire night to finish an epic battle scene. Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn is one such series that took my breath away.
I was familiar with Sanderson’s work because I had read Skyward before. When I started Mistborn, I believed it would be a generic run-of-the-mill story with a young protagonist prophesied to fulfill some grand destiny, but boy, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
There are three books in the series that starts with Vin, a young orphan girl, who learns to survive on her own in the streets. She has something — a power? — that allows her to influence people’s decisions, but she does not know how to use it and can barely manage to work her magic on a select few.
Her world turns upside down when she meets Kelsier, a famed hero, who was the only person alive to have survived…
