Brandon Sanderson’s first novel, Elantris, was published only five years ago, in 2005. Since then, this prolific writer’s impressive catalog of published novels has established him as a fantasy author to be reckoned with. His Mistborn trilogy is especially loved among fantasy readers for its knuckle-whitening action, meticulous world-building, and intricate system of magic. When fantasy author Robert Jordan died before completing his magnum opus, the 10,000 page The Wheel of Time, Jordan’s widow selected Brandon Sanderson to finish the series’s final three volumes, the first of which, 2009′s The Gathering...

Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy thunders to a conclusion with the lengthy (the trade paperback edition I purchased was almost 800 pages) Mistborn: The Hero of Ages. Even from the opening paragraphs of the first novel, Sanderson established that the Mistborn series was going to be a work of fantasy to remember: the first two installments in the trilogy were well written, entertaining, and surprisingly thought-provoking (see my earlier reviews of The Final Empire and The Well of Ascension)...

Brandon Sanderson's sequel to Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension has big shoes to fill. The first novel in the Mistborn trilogy was a fun, exciting, and meticulously written fantasy tale that documented a thieving crew's attempt to overthrow their tyrannical government, led by the near-omnipotent Lord Ruler. Without spoiling too much of the story from the first novel, their plan was more successful than they could have anticipated, leaving the surprised crew-members as the leaders of an uncertain kingdom...

Mistborn: The Final Empire is the first novel of Brandon Sanderson's freshly completed Mistborn trilogy. Sanderson is probably most famous, at the moment, for being the author chosen to finish Robert Jordan's mammoth Wheel of Time series, but he has been extremely busy over the last few years...