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A review by abigcoffeedragon
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
5.0
What does Brandon Sanderson do right? He grabs your attention in the first chapter and he never lets go. I will start a book because of recommendations from websites and people, but I finish them because the author wrote something worth the paper it is printed on or the bandwidth it was downloaded from.
This book starts off running and never stops, with a fast pace but not at break-neck speed. This has been a disappointing year for books for me so far, and Alloy of Law is only one of two books that has made me happy to have been able to read. I know that this has been out for a couple of years, but my queue has 400 books in it right now.
As for Alloy of Law, it has all of the things that made the Mistborn trilogy (first of three) so fun and interesting, only this time, we have a frontier-style gunslinger in addition to the magic system. It works and it does it quite well. So many novels are great ideas but the author loses sight of telling and good story and spends 100 pages setting things up. Brandon Sanderson sets you up with the details, while telling a story. the Action/Reaction cycle is very smooth and at no time did I feel that the story sagged in the middle.
Fantasy Novels need to accomplish a few things to be good in my HUMBLE opinion. They have to be in a world that I could see living in, even if only for the time of the novel, but more important, I must want to RETURN. Fantasy should also have enough believable set-pieces, that the events COULD happen IF all of the qualities are met in magic, people, and places.
My new favorite thing to find right now is novels with Magic and Guns and make it work. Alloy of Law is this novel and it is a success.
This book starts off running and never stops, with a fast pace but not at break-neck speed. This has been a disappointing year for books for me so far, and Alloy of Law is only one of two books that has made me happy to have been able to read. I know that this has been out for a couple of years, but my queue has 400 books in it right now.
As for Alloy of Law, it has all of the things that made the Mistborn trilogy (first of three) so fun and interesting, only this time, we have a frontier-style gunslinger in addition to the magic system. It works and it does it quite well. So many novels are great ideas but the author loses sight of telling and good story and spends 100 pages setting things up. Brandon Sanderson sets you up with the details, while telling a story. the Action/Reaction cycle is very smooth and at no time did I feel that the story sagged in the middle.
Fantasy Novels need to accomplish a few things to be good in my HUMBLE opinion. They have to be in a world that I could see living in, even if only for the time of the novel, but more important, I must want to RETURN. Fantasy should also have enough believable set-pieces, that the events COULD happen IF all of the qualities are met in magic, people, and places.
My new favorite thing to find right now is novels with Magic and Guns and make it work. Alloy of Law is this novel and it is a success.