Rendy

I saw a copy of Final Empire in my local bookshop, I picked it up, read the back cover and rolled my eyes. I put it down.

But the name was familiar to me from somewhere. I came home, I was browsing tvtropes and then I got to a WoT article and remembered where I knew the name Brandon Sanderson from: he was chosen to continue the WoT series!

I'm a very casual reader and fan of WoT but the fact that he was chosen to continue something so seminal made me want to learn more about Mr. Sanderson. So I looked him up on tvtropes, saw that that book I scrunched my nose at and rolled my eyes because the synopsis on the back cover read like a really crappy idea was in fact a book that was all about playing with those very stereotypes.

This got me interested. The next time I was at the bookshop, I bought the book, read it casually (mostly because I was reading other books at the time and so it was pretty low on my list)...then I stopped halfway to the end. Why? Because I liked it and I wanted to wait to get the other two books, just knowing in my gut that I'd want to read the whole trilogy in one go.

So I did, and it took months to get to the next two books but when I did, I read voraciously and finished Hero of Ages just the other day. Then I started on Alloy of Law and finished it about an hour ago.

Needless to say, I'm hooked on Sanderson.

So they have waffles.

I suppose then that they also have gin and tonic?

Just got to the end, great book. Need more.

The way I understood it, this was a side story to the main storyline, yes?

Does that mean that Mr. Sanderson will not be returning to these characters? I guess that Mister Suit's plan will in that case be a foreshadowing of something to happen in the next trilogy or a crucial part of that trilogy's backstory perhaps?

Also, loved the Marsh cameo

And I'm wondering if the writer of this book's Ars Arcanum is perhaps Hoid...

You and everybody else. It's the best kind of joke: it makes sense, is in character, and yet is unexpected and ridiculous.

And it gets even better when the next line describes the language as 'lofty'

Hello everyone, first time poster love Mr. Sanderson's work, read the Mistborn trilogy - no, devoured it.

Currently reading Alloy of Law and I got to a line that just forced me to look if there's an official fan forum, register and comment.

Two words that just a minute ago made me go : High. Imperial.