Mistborn Saga: Mistborn: The Final Empire, Book 1, (Hardcover)

from Radaghast

Mistborn is what you hope every fantasy novel will be, and what most fantasy novels invariably aren't. Mistborn is a complex story told mostly from the perspective of Kelsier, a rebel peasant, and Vin, powerful young girl he recruits. This is one of the novel's strongest elements. The personality...

from La-Plume

Brandon Sanderson has just moved to my auto-buy list. A fast paced story, dazzling universe, charismatic characters, a fight for a grand cause, disguised surprises under disguised lies, THAT'S EPIC FANTASY FOR YOU! Fantasy will never really look the same. You can buy "Mistborn: The Final Empire" ...

from littlegeek

Another exciting read from Brandon Sanderson. This book has the BEST magical system ever. The mechanics of the magic make for some very exciting fight scenes. Begs for a movie and/or video game adaptation. Starts slowly, with much world and character building, but the last 100 pages are truly a w...

from DWWilkin

A unique fantasy is something that when you find it, you know that you are onto something great, or entirely the other way. Well, happily Sanderson has done something great. What makes this unique is not that the heroes have to overcome the evil ruler, because you know you've heard that before. O...

from Allama

Mistborn: The Final Empire is, to put it simply, the best fantasy novel I've read in years. The story of a dismal world in which the prophesied hero was defeated and the people subjugated by a dark lord for centuries, it tells the tale of the newest revolution against the oppressive and greatly f...