That isn’t done! Nobody else does this well! Whether you love or hate the new era, you’ve got to admit Sanderson does both subgenres well and he made them both work flawlessly for the same world. Almost gaslamp fantasy, definitely fantasy western. This new era, 300 years in the future, has a post-industrial revolution feel to it and it’s very new world western in style. It’s the sort of world one expects from high fantasy. The original Mistborn trilogy is medieval-esque in setting, in a world without mechanized power and transportation. While staying within the great realm of the fantasy genre, we’ve jumped subgenres. What Sanderson has done with this transition is absolutely fascinating and not something I’ve seen other authors do well. That is, until old friend Wayne shows up pretending to be some eccentric family member to fool the household that Wax is needed elsewhere.
Wax was born with the ability to use both types of magic, and he has a reputation for being a bit of a ruffian vigilante, but as we meet him in this book he’s trying to adapt to a quieter life taking over as head of house at his family’s estate in Elandel. Allomancy and feruchemy are still found and used among the population, and many characters we’ll meet have abilities we’ve never seen before. Everything we just read is now history, myth, and the foundation of religion. The world was set right and thee centuries have past. The Alloy of Law is the beginning of a new era in the Mistborn series. I read The Alloy of Law along with a book club in May 2021 after reading the first era of Mistborn in February-April. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.Īmazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK My Review
Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.Īfter twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel.
Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history-or religion. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.
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