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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Review)

“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.” I finished reading the Mistborn trilogy. I have only read the first era, and I don't plan on reading further, either at all, or, at least, for quite some time. Either way, I found this series to be incredibly enjoyable to read. Mistborn does an excellent job setting things up for potential cliché before pulling the rug from under you in ways that you rarely catch on to. In this post, I will talk about the first book in the series, The Final Empire. Summary In the first book of the series, we have an Empire ruled over by a man called captain redundancy. It's a weird name, but you quickly start to look over that fact as it sinks in just how powerful this man is. He is a terrifyingly powerful man who had ruled over this Empire with a tyrannical fist for a thousand years. And, yes, he is immortal. There is no hope for those who suffer in his Empire. The plebes of society, known