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, his standalone fantasies and his new series, The Stormlight Archive, Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own fiction. Now he returns to the series that made his name with a new story set years after the events of Hero of Ages. In a world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic bound up in common metals someone who can burn metals that no-one has burned before can tip the balance...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 the dramatic story within The Alloy of Law shows off this skill to its very best.
Initial thoughts: Rust and ruins, this book was good! I adored the wit of Wayne. Wax was a great frontman but Wayne stole the show for me. The Alloy of Law deflected from the original Mistborn trilogy in that it read like a (fantasy) crime novel. Coupled with technological advancement, this paved new grounds to further explore the potential of allomancy and feruchemy. It was a lot of fun, to say the least. I wasn't as wowed as by the previous three books, and I didn't think The Alloy of Law was nearly as brilliant but it did retain the spark of the Mistborn series.
