Item: The Bands of Mourning
Rating: 3.00
Author: reneetheunissen

by Brandon Sanderson

The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans the world over. The imagination that Sanderson brought to the series and his skill at marshalling epic storylines and dramatic action, his ability to create vivid characters made him a natural choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic wheel of time sequence. But with Mistborn, Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own fiction. Now he returns to the series that made his name with a new story, building on the incredible success of THE ALLOY OF LAW.

The new Mistborn books move the series into a richly imagined 19th century analogue world with elements of the wild west mixed with magic and science. It's a wonderful concoction from a master storyteller.

Sanderson has the knack of giving the epic fantasy reader exactly what they want. This ability has thrown him to the forefront of the genre and this novel will take him to the next level.

So... I am disappointed while at the same time excited. The problem with this book is that it starts of quite slow, and the last 100 pages hold so many new things and revelations, that it often feels too action packed to get a good sense about what is going on. It makes me believe that the next book is going to be great, but these last few books should have been better in my opinion. Right now, they feel too much like watching an episode of a television series in which a lot happens, and then suddenly the reveals start pouring in on the last few minutes (pages) to make sure that the reader also picks up the next installment. I would like to believe that Sanderson is better than that. I wonder if this writing style that is more direct causes my disappointment, because he is better at writing everything in extreme depth?

The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6) (Mistborn: Wax and Wayne, #3) (Cosmere Universe)

by Brandon Sanderson

Reviewed by Renee on Jul 18, 2020

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