by The WandererAuthor: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Series: Mistborn Book Three
Pages: 760
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(Spoilers for the previous two books in the Mistborn Trilogy are below).
All things must come to an end, and that’s what the Mistborn protagonists are facing at the climax of Sanderson’s trilogy – the end of the world. Although the first half of the book tends to drag, it doesn’t drag for nearly as long as beginning of The Well of Ascension. It’s a lot easier to forgive the slow start once readers get to the concluding half of this book. It’s in the final half of this book that Sanderson, who had previously established himself as a great creator of magic systems, now establishes himself as a great plot architect.
Subtly inter-weaved into the previous Mistborn books is the importance of religion and faith. These themes are brought to the forefront for the conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy, and they will probably bother some people who are not religious.
At times Sanderson gets too preachy with his take on faith, and although he never condemns atheism verbatim, his stance on the importance of faith does so indirectly. All religious connotations set aside, The Hero of Ages wraps up all the major plot-lines, rewards the readers who have been paying attention to the details, and climaxes in a fast paced, emotionally wrought ending.
