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The Final Empire

Mistborn Book 1

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The Final Empire

Written by: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
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From number one New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison.

Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot. But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life.

Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?

Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

  • The Cosmere
  • The Stormlight Archive
  • The Way of Kings
  • Words of Radiance
  • Edgedancer (Novella)
  • Oathbringer

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
  • 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 books by Brandon Sanderson

  • The Reckoners
  • Steelheart
  • Firefight
  • Calamity
©2006 Brandon Sanderson (P)2009 Macmillan Audio
Epic Epic Fantasy Fiction Fantasy Heartfelt Adventure Robbery Young Adult

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Brandon Sanderson is amazing

The performance was superb and the book was another amazing example of Sanderson's genius writing. highly recommended!

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mmm mmm good

book was absolutely amazing to listen to. great narration and great book. would listen to it again.

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What a good book

A friend recommended this title right before a road trip. By the time I got home I was addicted and had to see how it all ended.

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Unusual Story Told Masterfully

Brandon Sanderson has a very unusual creativity, it seems that he strives to break out of the mold in a way that completely separates his writing from others. He’s masterful at it, but it’s strangeness isn’t for everyone, he attempts to be scientific in his fictional creations, but because of how fantastical the ideas are, his attempts to make them more “scientific” and believable sometimes have the opposite effect. Reading his work I sometimes get the impression that a much stronger more resonant story could be told if he didn’t seem to try so hard to break the mold. He is an excellent writer, complete in his craft, but his strongest abilities are in creating characters and a narrative around them, rather than just in amazing technical writing skill. I would say that Tolkien, jack london, Arthur Conan Doyle, are more masterful wordsmiths, and write stories that perhaps don’t feel as far fetched at times. But Brandon Sanderson’s character and world building seems to exceed the aforementioned authors, perhaps not in depth, but in complexity, similar to the kind of dizzying web spun by George r r Martin, though not at the same scale.

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First book

Fell in love with reading after getting this book at a young age, I bought this audiobook now many years later and have subsequently remembered why I fell in love with reading/books. Great narration and a gripping story.

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The best, most well defined magic system.

Easily the best part of this book is how well defined allomancy is, and how much the book explores and pushes the limits of the systems it creates. 10/10.

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great stand alone book

the writer pretends its a book 1 of a series but he only writes individual books this is book one of the Mistborn world nothing more not book 1 of mistborn series

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Thoughtful, with fun characters

A brilliant fantasy that fulfills the readers expectations without relying of cliche. The obvious twists turn into something you weren't expecting. The magic you though they should be able to do comes to pass on climax. I really liked this book and am glad I can jump into the rest of the series.

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Nice!

I really enjoyed the story and characters. The book has somewhat of a slow start but things start to really come together in the middle and end.

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Easily my Favorite book/series.

Brandon Sanderson (Author) has crafted the perfect world that's ripe with creative ideas and huge potential. I can't wait to dive into the next book. Michael Kramer (Narrator) was hard to get used to at first but he definitely grew on me and I'm glad to see he's narrated the rest of the series.

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