Hi, it's Olivia, and today I have a book
review for Mistborn by Brandon
Sanderson- you might have heard of the
guy. This is my first book that I have read
by him, so I'm very excited to share my
thoughts. I'll start out with
non-spoilery general thoughts, and then
get into more detailed and spoiler
thoughts later on, and I'll let you know
when. But this is a- but I feel so late to
the game with this. I feel like there are so many people who
have already read this, and know what it's
about, but if you don't, basically the bad
guy has won, and it's been about a thousand
years since. The world is a depressing
place, and we have this criminal thief
named Kelsier, who has the powers of a
Mistborn, and he along with our heroine
Vin and their crew of people, they are-
he's bringing in hope, and he thinks that
he can change the state of the world and
defeat the kind of overall bad guy. I
don't know if that was a short synopsis,
but anyway, I thought that this was an
incredibly entertaining and immersive
read. And I honestly cannot wait to
continue the series. The cast, the plot,
the world, it was all great. And the story
has a lot of elements I think we've seen
in fantasy before, like this all-powerful
bad guy- the, the Lord ruler, and, you know,
there are characters that go to balls, and then
there's the the difference in class and
whatnot. All those elements were just
really well-written, and the story played
out so vividly in my head. I did start
out a little rocky-
I, actually, way back I think in 2018, is
when I started this book. I got around
150 pages in, and I stopped. Whether I got
distracted or whatever, but there's a
piece of me that wasn't feeling
compelled to continue. And I, looking back,
I feel like it's because I was still
getting all that exposition and it was
kind of a slower start, and so when I
picked it up I didn't know if I wanted
to reread that piece. But I decided to
listen to that chunk that I already read
two years ago on audio. I'm glad I did
that because it refreshed all the good
details that I had forgotten over the few-
over the past years. Getting in to the
magic and the world, I thought it was
super neat how Mistborn or allomancers
can control metals, and that's how- how
the magic works, but I especially liked
how it followed very strict rules. So, one
metal does this, the
other one does that. And also, like, he
made a point while throughout the story
of showing how it's- just because you
you're able to control one metal, or if
you're Mistborn you can control all of them,
it didn't make you invincible. And it
wasn't always to your advantage to use
it in every situation, if that makes
sense. There's instances where you're at
a disadvantage for using a metal a
certain way, or where your opponent can
use it against you, and so what I liked
about this is it made the characters-
they weren't invincible, and it made for
really good fights. And so that- I just
really like that. Speaking of the
characters, what a cast! I loved every
single character, honestly! The crew was
great, especially our main character Vin.
Any time they were all together it,
was a joy. I love their dialogue, they're
funny, and I like the choice throughout the
story of whose POV it was in. Especially as
it got towards the like second half. And the romance- I I'll talk about this
more in the spoilers section, I enjoyed
it, but the there's an element to it that
felt a little unrealistic which kind of
took away from it. The last thing I want
to mention before talking about spoilers
is, like, the timing of the timeline of
the story. So you know, our crew is
planning this- this big thing, and it's
not something that's gonna happen in a
week, or even a month. Like, it's gonna
take time. So it was interesting to see
when he chose to have kind of, like, time
jumps, when it would jump forward a couple
months, because if they, if we followed them
every single day for a year, oh my
goodness this book would be just
enormous!
Um, and speaking of that, like, for example
Vin is in a place where you can expect
that she's gonna have a sort of training
period, you know, she is inexperienced in
what she does, and she has Kelsier who
is far more experienced, and obviously
she's going to get some training from
him. And I loved how, let me know if you
agree, but sometimes in books and movies
they will have a character who has to go-
go under- undergo training, and it takes
forever! Like, I feel like you're spending all
this time showing them training and I
could just care less sometimes, it drags.
But it didn't here because of the choice
he made with like time jumps and- and
page breaks and stuff. I don't know if I-
if I made much sense, but despite sometimes
some pacing stuff, it was so exciting to
see the plot move forward, especially
to get to the last like third of the
book after all the bumps and bruises, and
and the climax. It was super exciting and
I can't wait to continue, so I think this
is a good place to jump into the
spoilers. So if you haven't read this,
thank you for watching, and if you're
still here -Hi. Let's go back to the
romance thing, shall we? So, I love the
first interactions between Vin and Elend,
I thought- I really enjoyed their
chemistry and their interactions, but at
some point it seems to just suddenly
shift to being more serious or, like, I
can't remember if Vin said that she loved
him- if that was an internal thought that
she had- and I just thought that came out
of nowhere because while they were cute
and obviously I wanted the romance to
happen, I had to do a double take because
I was like, didn't- they've only interacted
like two or three times that- that I
could remember, maybe I'm wrong, but in my
head they didn't really know each other,
or they didn't really interact that much.
I was like, okay, that came out of nowhere.
Speaking of that, okay. Before I
talk about Kel's death, leading up to
it during that whole battle sequence,
when Elend came in and was like, 'Valette!'
right in the middle of all the slaughter
that was going on, I thought that was
hilarious. I love that bit and I thought
that was hilarious, but what I did not find
funny was the next part- when Kel died. I
didn't believe it. I thought that there
was no- it wasn't that I didn't believe
that he died, it was I didn't believe-
couldn't believe that he died like that.
It seemed underwhelming for his
character. I understood what he already
planned for and- and the effect that that
had on the rest of the story, but I still
felt like that's not how he should have
went out. I don't know, that's- that's how I
feel about that. Another- I'm just like
picking out random scenes that I liked
and I want to talk about and hopefully
you've read them and want to talk about
them too- but when the crew is hanging
around and they start talking like Spook,
I thought that that was so funny.
And I love when Vin lashed out at Kel. I
thought that was a great moment for her
character. What was that? She got like
paragraph's worth of just shouting at him
and saying, you know, you guys do not
understand what it's been like for me
growing up, or skaa, you- no matter
what you may pose as, you still are- might
as well be noblemen sometimes in the way
you act, and the things that you have. Just, I-
just, you know. I read that and I was like
ooh! I made a note of Yeden, but there's not
much to say except what a, what a fool. I
think I'm gonna end this here, I know I-
know I didn't really talk about the Lord
Ruler, or the ending or anything- it was a
pretty epic, you know, ending, and I am
stressed out going forward because I
know there's unresolved issues there. You
know, I still don't- we still don't know what the
deepness is and all this other stuff and
he had said something like, you know, you
have no idea what you've done- I'm like, oh gosh,
what now! So I'm excited to go forward,
please let me know your thoughts on
anything and whether or not you like
this book or didn't like this book, and I
will see you in another video- bye.
