Author: Brandon Sanderson
Series: Mistborn #7, Wax and Wayne #4
Genre: Fantasy/Mystery/SteamPunk
Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: November 15, 2022
Edition: 513 pages, Kindle Edition
Source: Library
Synopsis:
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set, with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders, since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate-whose corruption Wax and Steris have sought to expose-and Bilming is even more entangled.
After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere-Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial...at any cost.
Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.
Return to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its conclusion.
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Where to start... I wasn't entirely sure what to expect going into this book. I was nervous because I read The Hero of Ages
in December of 2021, and remember how I felt after reading that. So
based on how things went for those characters, I knew to expect a
bittersweet ending, and Oh boy was it. It's tougher this time because I
don't have another Mistborn book to read, but I do have the first book
in Stormlight Archive, so I guess now is the time to start that series.
This book picks up six years after the ending of the last book, Bands of Mourning, a time-jump I wasn't fully expecting. But events in this book required a time jump. Marsi and Wayne are both constables and partners. I think that's a great team up, they equalize each other, far more than Wax and Wayne did in some respects. Wax has stepped up in his role as a politician, and there are several conflicts on the horizon.
I had no idea where this book was headed. Era 1 things were pretty clear, for the most part, of what needed to happen. The "prophecy" for who was going to save the world, the big mystery was who that hero was. In this book, all we know is that the Set needed to be defeated, but the how and their plans were the mystery.
Nothing happened the way I had expected it to. There were a handful of new characters, some very old faces, and some cameos from other Cosmere books. (Books I have yet to read). There are still some questions left unanswered, but I have to assume that all will be answered in time, maybe in Era 3 of Mistborn.
There are a few epilogues in this book, that follow many of the characters, and one epilogue had me very intrigued, and I am very much looking forward to seeing where they go from there.
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