Soundbite Sunday – Mistborn: The Final Empire
Title: Mistborn Author: Brandon Sanderson
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Rating:
As with Words of Radiance, I’m probably rating this book less highly because I read The Way of Kings first. Compared to The Way of Kings, Mistborn seemed like a younger sibling, a scaled down version perhaps intended for a younger audience. There are a lot of similarities between the two books: a world with a tyrannical ruling class; a male and a female narrator; chapters beginning with quotes from books; and similar magical combat. This is a good thing because these were strengths of The Way of Kings, but it’s also a bad thing because Mistborn felt much less novel. Mistborn also had a similarly consistent magic system and great character growth. Unfortunately, the epic scale and impressive world building of The Way of Kings were missing, but hopefully that will come as I read the next two books in the trilogy. Michael Kramer’s narration was spot on as always.
I’ve been having a little trouble keeping up on this read-along because my ipod has started skipping at one spot in the audio. I’ve re-downloaded the audio and not fixed it, so if anyone has any ideas, it would be much appreciated! In the mean time, I’m just listening on my computer. 
