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Brandon Sanderson: Shadows of Self (Hardcover, 2015, Tor Books) 4 stars

Shadows of Self shows Mistborn’s society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, …

One of the weaker books

3 stars

Either I’m getting kind of tired of Brandon Sanderson’s writing style or this book in particular didn’t resonate well with me. It wasn’t boring and the story was interesting enough, it just felt kind of annoying at times.

I must admit that it’s been around ten years since I read the first Mistborn trilogy and while the fourth book in this series worked quite well as a standalone, this one was having a lot more references that I no longer understood. I wish there had been more explanations for those than endless repetitions of how pushing, pulling and metalminds worked.

Of course, as usual, the ending was very well written and made up for a lot of the shortcomings.

@Unfreeze4257 I liked Stormlight Archive a lot more than I like Mistborn at the moment, but I know what you mean. I was rooting for Kaladin and I didn't mind Shallan as much as many others do, however I didn't really like Jasnah and heard that she will get a bigger role in the later books. Will probably decide with each book if I will continue, not that I have much choice going forward, considering it will take more than a decade until this series is finish.