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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML: "Michael Kramer is my favorite among all audiobook narrators. I was thrilled to have him on the Mistborn series, and he did such an amazing job I can't imagine having anyone else be the voice of these characters." �??Brandon Sanderson Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal. For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set�??with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders�??since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate�??whose corruption Wax and Steris have sought to expose�??and Bilming is even more entangled. After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere�??Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial...at any cost. Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin. Other Tor titles by Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere The Stormlight Archive The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Edgedancer (Novella) Oathbringer Dawnshard (Novella) Rhythm of War The Mistborn trilogy Mistborn: The Final Empire The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series Alloy of Law Shadows of Self Bands of Mourning The Lost Metal Collection Arcanum Unbounded Other Cosmere novels Elantris Warbreaker The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians The Scrivener's Bones The Knights of Crystallia The Shattered Lens The Dark Talent The Rithmatist series The Rithmatist Other titles by Brandon Sanderson The Reckoners Steelheart Firefight CalamityA Macmillan Audio production from T… (more)
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It took me a couple chapters to wrap my head around the time jump considering that I have been reading books in this series only one month apart. So much has changed for our characters - they've all grown so much. I love where they ended up and am sorry to have missed out on some of it. Perhaps there will be a short story or two in the future to fill in gaps. Even with that, our characters all go on further character arcs, especially Wayne. In same ways you could say this is Wayne's book.
The world building also deepens as various factions find more ways to combine metals. I am astonished at how much planning and thought Sanderson has put into this. I can only imagine what surprises will be in store for Era 3.
This was an ambitious novel. The action was fast paced and had a very cinematic fee. Even though I saw a couple of the reveals coming, I enjoyed the ride and felt a lot of satisfaction for those items I figured out ahead of time. I both laughed and cried by the end. The Lost Metal wrapped up Era 2 nicely and left me with plenty of questions about what is to come. I hope we get another Secret History in the future.
Now for the potentially controversial part and a possible reason why some may or may not enjoy this book as much. The Lost Metal is to the Cosmere as the Avengers movies are to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, you can watch Avengers without any other MCU movies and still enjoy it. It's that watching all the previous movies leading up helps deepen the Avengers experience. I feel like a big part of The Lost Metal is for the full Cosmere fans with all the links and connections between different Cosmere books. There are links back to Elantris, The Emperor's Soul, Stormlight Archives and White Sands. I've not read the last two in that list and it didn't impact my enjoyment in the book at all. Having read the first two I was delighted when I spotted things related to Elantris and The Emperor's Soul. I'm a geek like that :) All of this is to say that the only books I think absolutely should be read ahead of this one is the Mistborn Saga, including Secret History. Everything else is a bonus.
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It's not a bad story and I didn't put it down for days but I found myself not engaging a lot with several of the characters.
The first three Mistborn books also managed to upend my expectations and I really enjoyed discovering the ancient mythology that drove the more modern world of Wax and Wayne.
But this book confounded me. Maybe I needed to reread or review The Bands of Mourning (and even Shadows of Self) to understand who was who and what was what and how we managed to have 400 year old mythic characters stomping around in the industrial age and messing it up. And who are all these other Cosmere folks? I sort of understand what Sanderson wanted to do with this book. But it didn't do it for me.