Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Start date February 26 2017

Laura and I will be reading this. Anyone's welcome to join :)

starting today:)

Oh man that prologue was hilarious. Young Wax is great lol

Btw I find it hilarious that the high imperial language is spooks eastern slang that nobody could understand.

Did you notice Wax wears a mistcoat even though he's not a mistborn? I don't know why but it just hit me Lol

Chapter 7

(view spoiler)[Hoid is the coachman lol I love hearing from Sazed. He was one of my favorite characters.

We have confirmation that faceless immortals are kandra and that the bad guy Bleeder is third generation which means TenSoon could still be alive.

I'm really hoping TenSoon is who Sazed's sending to Wax to help him cause he was also one of my favorite characters :) (hide spoiler)]

I'm definitely liking this more than Alloy of Law. Still not as awesome as the first trilogy but it's an improvement over the last book.

Hacen wrote: "Did you notice Wax where's a mistcoat even though he's not a mistborn? I don't know why but it just hit me Lol"

i really didn't give any thought to that!

Hacen wrote: "Chapter 7

(view spoiler)[I like the conversations between Sazed and Wax in particular. Witty dialogue with a God! Ha. Only Sanderson could think of something like that! And Wayne is still great by the way! "Done talking to yourself mate?"
And again we get the nice names, as you previously mentioned - bad guy AKA bad girl : Bleeder. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 10

(view spoiler)[ Steris was back to her usual stern self in the beginning of this book, which was a little bit of disappointment for me i have to admit, but she's back on track now. I'm starting to like her more and more. Bleeder didn't get to kill Wax's father!? Hold on - where did that come from? Something else I didn't see coming!
I also like the discovery of Wax's family and past. The grandmother in the village and the story of the coin. And poor Wayne - trying to make up for his past mistake! I really felt for him there. (hide spoiler)]
I also like this book more than the first. Still not as much as the original trilogy but all the same a lot better than the first.

Laura wrote: "Chapter 10

Steris was back to her usual stern self in the beginning of this book, which was a little bit of disappointment for me i have to admit, but she's back on track now. I'm starting to lik..."

(view spoiler)[It seems like nobody in Waxs family is staying dead. So is the grandmother from the mothers side? I hope so so we can learn more about his mother. I don't think she's been mentioned yet. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 15

(view spoiler)[How creepy was that scene between Bleeder and the coachman? No wonder he was so freaked out. (hide spoiler)]

Hacen wrote: "Chapter 15

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(view spoiler)[I totally agree. And guess it was not his real father in the end. (hide spoiler)]

Just starting now as I kind of lost today reading-wise, but I'll throw my thoughts in here as I read :)

Finished and
(view spoiler)[awh hell.... the rogue Kandra was... oh man, this is so unfair!!! (hide spoiler)]
I found it a lot better than the first book. 4 stars from me. It was a very good read and the ending... wow!!!
I still like the original Mistborn trilogy better, but this one as a whole turned out to be not bad at all either! I'll talk more about it when you are all done.

Sean wrote: "Just starting now as I kind of lost today reading-wise, but I'll throw my thoughts in here as I read :)"

I wonder if you'll find this trilogy better than the original or not. The opinions on this seem to be split over here.

Laura wrote: "Finished and
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I found it a lot better than the first book. 4 stars from me. It was a very good read and the ending... wow!!!
I still like the original Mistborn trilogy better, bu..."

Im 100% with you. It was an improvement over the last book but still not as good as the first era.

(view spoiler)[Lessie was a kandra?!? So didn't see that coming either (hide spoiler)]

Hacen wrote: "Laura wrote: "Finished and
[spoilers removed]
I found it a lot better than the first book. 4 stars from me. It was a very good read and the ending... wow!!!
I still like the original Mistborn tril..."

My thoughts exactly!

If you want to read the Bands of Mourning could you wait for 2 days for me so I can finish Lions of Al-Rassan? If not and you really want to get to it fast I'll double read. I like reading stuff with you:). It's real motivating and fun.

Yes I'd like to read it. Take your time with your book and just let me know when you're done. It's been nice reading with you too :) I joined the group so I could have someone to talk to about books and it's been great.

thanks for waiting. I'll let you know before I can start. Maybe by then the guys will also be done with this one and would like to join too. It's really great when you can talk about the books you read and it motivates you also to finish a book that much faster this way. :).

I won't be hopping straight into the next book after this, so don't worry about waiting around for me! I just want to spread out the series a bit.

Only about a quarter way through, but I'm really enjoying it. I think Sanderson made a really good call by making this series less dense and more focused on a single, smaller plot. It's a weird situation because I feel that he can do this only after writing a longer series to really set up the world, and now he can reap the rewards by just having fun, semi-standalone stories which can take advantage of the world and mechanics already established.

As it is now, I'm enjoying this second batch of Mistborn books more than the first trilogy, but only because they can take advantage of what was established in the first trilogy. If that makes sense :p To put it another way; I'm much happier that Sanderson went for something almost 'pulpy' rather than right another longer, 'epic' series.