mistborn: era one
author: Brandon Sanderson
book 1: The Final Empire (2006)
book 2: The Well of Ascension (2007)
book 3: The Hero of Ages (2008)
last read: jan - feb 2025
broke out of a reading slump by trying these out via audiobook and got hooked very quickly. some of the writing is like being slapped in the face with a wooden clog ("the destruction around him was a metaphor for his life," "we can hold multiple meetings a day as long as we don't schedule them at the same time") but the worldbuilding and, more importantly, the plotbuilding are so immaculate that i had to shotgun all three books.
i plan on working through the next era as well, and then i suppose i'll have to wait for ol brando sando to feed me more...
sazed, my beloved
what a character. what an outlook on religion and duty. what a tragic man. what an absolute legend. and that ending... i cried. the last bit of Hero of Ages implies that he reunites with Tindwyl after it all and that does my heart so good.
things i thought were spelled different
ferrochemy, hemollurgy, lord Yeoman, lord Set, Luthidel, Urtoh, Phaedrix city, the Terrace Mountains, terracemen, aetium, Elendi (which led to mild confusion). just audiobook things, i suppose.
though i also wonder if some of these were intentional given the obvious connection between koloss and 'colossus' and kandra and 'contract'?
moments i loved
Vin and Elend's tiny wedding and the first time Elend pulled the "that's my wife!" card.
unprotected Elend going "fuck it" and attacking a koloss by himself.
the reveal of the koloss's insistence that "we... are... human..." and the jawdrop it caused at 1 in the morning.
grieving
for Tensoon, most noble of wolfhounds.
for Tindwyl, warrior mother beyond compare.