Mistborn Trilogy: A Cosmere to Get Lost In

If you enjoy fantasy novels with long overarching plots like Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles or Throne of Glass by Sara J. Maas, you may enjoy Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy  Mistborn: The Final Empire is about a world with an ageless oppressive ruler, allomancy (the magic system of the book), and a dying land. The world is completely different from what it used to be. A thousand years before the sun turned red, the mountains erupted with ash and the plants turned brown. Now a yellow sun is only a myth and the wealthy houses are fighting within while there is a race of slave people called the skaa dying every day with no hope. The story revolves around Vin, a skaa street urchin who barely stays alive by stealing and working in thieving crews. However, one day she is taken in by a new thieving crew with a dangerous mission that has been rumored impossible by many. Their goal is to kill the Lord Ruler, something that has never even been tried in knowable history. Vin has been employed to spy on the wealthy great houses by going under cover while learning how to use her newly found abilities as an allomancer. The allomancy in the book is different and original from other magic because Vin actually has to learn and work hard to be an allomancer and the magic makes sense and is explained very well. There are also lots of different characters in the book that you learn to love, but I’ll be honest—some of them die. But all in all, it’s a very good book with an unexpected ending that leads into the second book, The Well of Ascension, and then the finale The Hero of Ages. These books are all written by Brandon Sanderson. He recently wrote four extra unexpected books in the Cosmere (the universe most his books are set in). Though, instead of using a publishing house he decided to start a kickstarter which has now become the largest kickstarter in the website’s history with at least 41.7 million dollars from more than 181,000 readers who enjoyed Mistborn and the Cosmere Universe so much that they came back for the next four books.