This book had the incredibly difficult task of following in the footsteps of the first Mistborn novel, this being the second in ‘The Mistborn Saga.’ More than stepping up to the challenge, though, this story really delivers, creating a lot of tension for the characters that readers have now come to know and love. Accompanied by her crew, who aided her through the revolution, they must now work together to ensure that the kingdom remains safe, as they learn a whole new set of political skills. With her mentor Kelsier now dead, Vin is dealing with the risk of a religion surrounding her name, something that makes her feel uneasy. Having slain The Lord Ruler ending his thousand-year reign, the former street urchin Vin is now married to her love, the nobleman, as she’s the most powerful Mistborn in the kingdom.
The story sticks in the mind, making for a truly memorable experience that fully explores this exciting and rich new world. Establishing the world and introducing the characters, it’s ideal for anyone looking to get into the author, as it easily leaves the reader wanting more. Setting up the ‘Skyward’ series, this is a great opener that contains all the hallmarks of another classic saga from Sanderson. Finding a spacecraft, she repairs it, all the while hoping to get into flight school, as she finds that the craft actually has a soul of its own, allowing her to communicate with it. Among them is the young teenage girl Spensa, as she decides she wants to become a pilot herself and defend her planet. Trapped upon a planet that’s constantly under attack from alien invaders, the remnants of humanity hold out against the enemy. Here are my own top five Brandon Sanderson novels ranked in order: There’s plenty of career highlights throughout his backlog of work, though, with many titles standing out from the rest. His Cosmere novels have also been licensed to DMG Entertainment, which will see big-screen adaptations over the years to come. It was also likely this work that would lead to his later collaboration on their ever-popular video-game Fortnite, managing a crossover with his own ‘Mistborn’ series, which started up back in 2006 with The Final Empire.įrom creating ‘Sanderson’s Laws of Magic’ to winning countless awards, including the Goodreads and Whitney Awards on numerous occasions, he’s extremely well regarded throughout the fantasy community at large. Included in this is his work on the ‘Infinity Blade’ series, beginning with Infinity Blade: Awakening in 2011 for Epic Games. Sanderson is also well known for working with other pre-existing fantasy franchises and intellectual properties for larger companies.
He’s also well known for teaching this, among many other concepts, through his well-regarded creative-writing lectures, along with ‘Writing Excuses,’ his weekly writing podcast. Known for creating his own systems of magic, he’s popularized the concept of hard and soft magic, with ‘hard’ being used to determine magic rules being set in stone and ‘soft’ being magic systems being more about wonder. When it came to finishing the Wheel of Time series, he’d start with The Gathering Storm in 2009, followed by two subsequent titles Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light. He’s also created graphic novels set in the same world, with White Sand being published back in 2016. One of the main ideas behind this shared universe was the idea of connecting them all but not requiring readers to read them, making for individual epics that stand can stand on their own. This has included continuing the franchises of other writers in their passing, with him completing Robert Jordan’s well ‘Wheel of Time’ series of novels.īeginning in 2005, Sanderson would start his career back in 2005 with the Cosmere series, starting with Elantris. Working alongside other well-known American fantasy novelists, he’s an established novelist in his own right. It’s what he does with this trope that’s different, though, as he builds entire worlds with their own systems and lore. Often writing speculative science-fiction, his characters are usually seen embarking on journeys, something which is fairly standard to the genre on the surface. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchasesĪ leading proponent of epic Young Adult fantasy novels, Brandon Sanderson is known for creating sagas that span over numerous series.
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