Reviews with content warning for Blood - The Alloy of Law

Well this was fun! I throughly enjoyed this next phase of Mistborn. The characters are lovable, the world has changed so much, and the mystery is full throttle. I can’t wait to see what happens next!

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I Really Liked It 😄
-★★★★☆- (4.00/5.00)
My Grading Score = 80% (B+)

The Alloy of Law, from the first chapter, I could feel the refreshing return of being back into Mistborn, overflowing me again, and it was great. Taking place in this new era was very interesting to me, and this is coming from someone who does not care for wild west, gunslinging type of stories.

The Allowmancy and Feruchemy being embedded into the gunslinging action definitely gave it a unique flavor to the genre I wouldn't go out of my way to read and probably why it worked for me. I thought all the characters were pretty good, and I loved the duo that is Wax and Wayne, I felt they complimented each other very well. Marasi, I thought, was very likable, and I liked her struggles of feeling like she's useless but showcasing that can contribute when the time comes, I enjoyed her character development throughout this book. Steris was more straightforward and on the lesser interesting side of things in comparison to Marasi, but I think she has the potential to change this, as seen in her final scene moving forward. I am actually a fan of love triangles as I can see one being set up here between Wax, Marasi, and Steris, and I'm looking forward to how that flourishes.

Worldbuilding wise, I liked how previous characters of the Era 1 have their names embedded into the locations of Era 2 it made the worldbuilding feel all the more personal and alive to me, I'll leave it at that though.

Verdict
The Alloy of Law was fast-paced, action-packed, short, and sweet. Brandon Sanderson had fun writing this one, and it shows.

I Really Liked It

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blythemind's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I’m sure there are people that would absolutely love this book. I’m just not particularly fond of stories set in industrial revolution time periods, and I really don’t enjoy books where the protagonist is a cop. TRIGGER WARNING:

while not depicted, the main motivation for Wax to save the women that have been abducted is that he finds out they are likely being sex trafficked. He does not find them in this book and it is implied they will be forcibly bred to produce Allomancers.

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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erynelle's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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aseel_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Always a big fan of what this man can do and I'm especially keen to see how he develops this fantasy society with modern technology and the different religions!

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nat20charisma's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.75

Wild West heroes and villains meets steampunk. There are some great references to the first Mistborn trilogy; it’s so interesting to look at the same universe hundreds of years after the rebellion.

I loved Wax and Wayne, but I wasn’t a huge fan of Marasi. I thought it was a little creepy that she was his super
fan and studied everything about him. And she wasn’t very interesting like Sanderson’s other female characters; she wanted to be in the action, but she was timid and scared of everything. I hope she gets some character development in the next book.

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