MISTBORN IS BACK! :D

Hey guys! :D
Sorry it’s been awhile, I’ve been trying to catch up with all my books haha!

But I am back with a new review for you all!


Here’s the blurb:
Centuries after the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity - railroads, electric streetlights, and skyscrapers. Waxillium Ladrian can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After 20 years in the dusty Roughs, in the city of Elendel, the new head of a noble house may need to keep his guns.

So, the book I am reviewing for you guys is none other than Brandon Sanderson’s ‘Alloy of Law’.
This is a sequel to the Mistborn Trilogy, which was possibly my favourite trilogy I’ve ever read (Yes. It beats LotR, by a freaking long shot!)

When authors, video game developers or filmmakers create a sequel or a spin-off to something that is loved worldwide, it tends to lack the love and care the originals had/have.
It sometimes doesn’t have the same effect and feel that the originals have and it feels as if sometimes the creator is too busy living in the past to write something for present.

This book completely turns that upside down and steps out into a new light.

I was very excited and very apprehensive at the same time when beginning this book; having read and utterly adored the Mistborn trilogy, I was becoming a little sceptic to my thoughts of ‘as amazing as tFE, WoA and tHoA’ or ‘I am surely going to love this!’
I got maybe 6 chapters in and I was instantly drawn back into the world of Mistborn.

The story is set 300 years after the events of the original Mistborn trilogy.
It’s an age where technology has become a more viewable source of power and that has been implemented across the land of Scadrial.
As it says in the blurb there’s trains, electricity, horseless carriages (or, in laymen’s terms, cars) and other inventions that make every-thing about the Mistborn universe you love and know, seem so futuristic and different.

Weapons have had a dramatic change aswell; swords and daggers still exist and are still used, but the most common sort of arsenal now are guns.
Guns are one of the main impacts of the story that allows it to diverge from the stories we know and love, it generally does give the book a ‘wild-west’ feel.
Plus, considering our main character is known as a Lawman, it gives it more of a ‘Western’ feel. 

(Which confuses me when people get annoyed at this, the books are basically being written out in a time-line system. For example: the Mistborn trilogy is an era with literally squat for technology and it shows the world in a sort of medieval period, where-as AoL captures the growth and start of technology, and what Elendel/Scadrial will become once it is a more developed city/land and I’m guessing his newer Mistborn books are going to be set in future settings which will implement much more technological advances and improvements and future settings)

I generally really enjoyed this story though; it was quickly paced and had good scenes throughout. I honestly didn’t get bored at one point during this read.
The characters where written quiet well and the plot was thick and was also really easy to follow even if you hadn’t had the knowledge of The Mistborn Trilogy. The only problem I had with it was that it was 95% predictable; where-as with the other Mistborn books there was a cliff hanger at each end.

Another thing I liked about AoL was the involving of ‘Twinborns’. People with powers of both Allomancy and Feruchemy; this allowed for either greater power or a special advantage when fighting. For example, Wayne is a Bloodmaker and a Slider. He is able to but up a speed bubble using his ‘Slider’ ability and heal himself from any wounds quickly with his ‘Bloodmaker’ ability… pretty useful!

The main character is a man named Waxillium Ladrian or Wax for short; a law keeper who has grown up surrounded by madness, murder and violence in the Roughs but is originally from the city. He is also a Twinborn, a coinshot allomancer and a Skimmer Feruchemist. 
He is quite a normal, predictable male character honestly. He is courage’s, brave, intelligent and sometimes funny.
I didn’t feel like he was as developed as he could’ve been though, as sometimes his character became slightly over-used and boring. There were also points where he should’ve been shot or at least hurt, but seemed to avoid all danger immaculately… which became pretty convenient.

Wayne is the second male main character and is also Wax’s best friend both in the Roughs and in the city.
Wayne made this book. He is stupidly funny and amazingly clever.
At points I would literally chuckle for a few minutes because of what Wayne had said, he has quite a sarcastic, dry sense of humour, which is exactly like mine so it made it funnier.
For some weird reason, there was hardly any development towards Wayne’s character. As you start seeing a softer or deeper side to Wayne, suddenly a childish grimace and a joke would follow, utterly re-shifting your view on this character back to your original thoughts…
He is my favourite character at the moment. I’m hoping if the next Mistborn series is set just after this one, he’s in it because he is hilarious.

Marasi is the main female character in this story.
She’s an intelligent woman who is also quite shy when it comes to romance and intimacy.
I liked Marasi; she was pretty level headed and ‘real’ when it came to certain events in this story. She was trying to act tough or acting to scared, she naturally did things that she felt were right and worked upon them.

Characters form the original books such as Vin, Elend, Kelsier, Marsh/Ironeyes, Sazed, etc are now largely religious figures and gods.
(I mean, Sazed is technically God but he’s worshipped even more now)
I really liked how Sanderson subtly implemented characters from the original trilogy.
I honestly got really excited when I read things like Deamoux promenade or ‘Vindication’ which was a gun that got given to Wax.
It made the universe seem so much more realistic and made it actually believable.
One bit of Elendel city I found great was a small area in the middle called ‘Field of Rebirth’ which has a statue showing Vin and Elend as the Ascension Warrior and the Last Emperor (which is where Vin and Elend were when… well, you know slowly start crying and curling into a ball)

Overall, this book was the perfect sequel to the Mistborn Trilogy; it was funny, witty, quickly paced and greatly independent.
Plus, the cover design is as beautiful as the last 3 books... I believe that the guy who created those also created this one... He's done an awesome job in my opinion.
I cannot wait for the second set of the Mistborn books to come out which I shall buy in both Hardback and Paperback… because why not! >.<
And I cannot wait for the next set of Steelheart to come out… because BRANDON SANDERSON. (I’m definitely not a fan-boy.)

Thank you for reading his review! :D
I hope you enjoyed it! :D 

If you want to buy this book and the entire mistborn series then go here:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Mistborn-Trilogy-Brandon-Sanderson/9780575118560/?a_aid=BookolioBlog
http://www.bookdepository.com/Alloy-Law-Brandon-Sanderson/9780575105836/?a_aid=BookolioBlog

Thanks you reading guys! :D
Joe :)