Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn: The Final Empire” ($7.99,
Tor) may have spent a record amount of time on my to-read pile. The hardcover got
shuffled around for at least a year or so, and when the paperback came out, I
added it to the pile as well, where it spent quite a bit of time. I never
seemed to get around to it, though.
After enjoying what Sanderson did with the conclusion of
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, I thought it was time to give some of his works
a try. I looked at “The Way of Kings,” but I wasn’t really ready to start
another monster epic fantasy series that might take up a couple more decades of
my life. So I returned to “Mistborn,” which had always seemed to have something
that interested me, but never seemed to make its way off the pile.
I’m sorry I waited so long.