The Final Empire

(Mistborn #1)

544 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2006 by Tor.

ISBN:
9780765311788
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68428

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5 stars (8 reviews)

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison.

Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, …

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Easy to read and self contained fantastical crime heist

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The ending was maybe a bit underwhelming, as I was expecting a different outcome from the double narrative in the chapter beginnings, but the book does a very good job of setting up the series while still telling a contained story. The crime heist isnt a usual theme for fantasy books, but it works well ! The magic system is also very well defined but leaves room for expansion (well, as big as the table of elements would allow)

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Subjects

  • Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy - Epic
  • Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
  • Fantasy - General
  • Fantasy fiction