Review: Hero of Ages

Wow!  How I let this review get by me I don’t know but I will remedy that now.

Hero of Ages is the book that caps off the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson.  After reading the first two books I had very high expectations for this one.  I was a little worried that it could not live up to the standard the author had set in the previous books but I am glad to say that I was not disappointed at all.  Not even a little bit.

The book picks up a year after the events of The Well of Ascension with events tumbling toward the destruction of the world.  I won’t talk too much about the plot as I don’t want to give anything away to those of you who will be reading it.  I will say that it moves at a very quick pace and kept me turning pages until the end.  We get to experience more of the world than we have in previous books.

The strengths of the previous books remain in this one as well.  Sanderson delves even deeper into the magic system he introduced us to in The Final Empire.  The characters are well developed.  The surprises keep coming and the end was unpredictably perfect.  The plot twists this author comes up with are one of his greatest strengths.

It still amazes me how, while reading this book, I could not figure out what would happen.  But it all made perfect sense at the end.  Amazing.

This trilogy is one my favorites.  It comes very highly recommended.

Brian