{"id":4943,"date":"2018-02-21T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:15:25","slug":"mistborn-by-brandon-sanderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/fantasy\/mistborn-by-brandon-sanderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Mistborn-by-Brandon-Sanderson-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5058\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Mistborn-by-Brandon-Sanderson-1-188x250.jpg\" alt=\"Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson book cover\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Mistborn-by-Brandon-Sanderson-1-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Mistborn-by-Brandon-Sanderson-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>Genre: Fantasy<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">Publisher:\u00a0 Tor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published: 2014<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Reviewer Rating:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/12\/fourstars.gif\" alt=\"four stars\" width=\"45\" height=\"13\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">Reviewer: Joshua Palmatier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you read this book?<br \/>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-4943\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"897144c4cb\">Why not rate it! <img id=\"rating_4943_1\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4943, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4943_2\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4943, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4943_3\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4943, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4943_4\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4943, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4943_5\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4943, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> <br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_4943_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-4943-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read Elantris and loved it, so I was interested in what Brandon Sanderson had done with the &#8220;Mistborn&#8221; series, since everyone was raving about it. It&#8217;s a good read!<\/p>\n<p>Premise: Vin is a thief with the ability to affect people&#8217;s emotions, helpful with her gang, but when she uses her ability on the wrong person, she catches the interest of the Lord Ruler&#8217;s minions&#8230; and Kelsier. Kelsier has survived the Lord Ruler&#8217;s hellish mining prison and intends to bring the Lord Ruler down. He&#8217;s gathered a group of the city&#8217;s greatest thieves and con artists and decides to add Vin to the mix. All they have to do now is bring the ruling Houses of the city to war, train an army of peasants that can take over the city, and somehow kill the Lord Ruler himself. Easy, right?<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely a good read.\u00a0 The world is interesting&#8211;a dark city with ash falls covering the streets on a regular basis and the commoners ground under the heel of the Lord Ruler and his government. The characters are interesting and fun to follow. And the magic system is unique, magic performed by swallowing and burning metals. My only real complaint is that the pacing was a little slow in some parts.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely something those who love fantasy should check out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuapalmatier.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joshua Palmatier<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjamintate.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benjamin Tate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre: Fantasy Publisher:\u00a0 Tor Published: 2014 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Reviewer: Joshua Palmatier Have you read this book? I&#8217;ve read Elantris and loved it, so I was interested in what Brandon Sanderson had done with the &#8220;Mistborn&#8221; series, since everyone was raving about it. It&#8217;s a good read! Premise: Vin is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":5058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[71,1260,822,550,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}