Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn #1)

Title : Mistborn: The Final Empire

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Rating: 1000/10

So this is my first review after a looong break.. sorry if I sound a little strange and rusty xp What I've learnt from the last two books I've read..which may be a bit of a rushed assumption but i'm just gonna say it anyway is- READ EVERY BOOK BY BRANDON SANDERSON. YOU WILL REGRET NOT READING THEM AND RELISH EVERY SINGLE ONE AND FEEL LIKE YOU'VE ENTERED AN IMAGINARY SECRET FANTASY SOCIETY WORLD OF BEING A BRANDON SANDERSON FAN. JUST DO IT.

Mistborn is set in a fantasy world which gives you a creepy idea of what would happen in all those books if the hero didn't save the world and destroy the Dark Lord.

'In a world where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, an evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. The future of the empire rests on the shoulders of a troublemaker and his young apprentice. Together, can they fill the world with colour once more?

In Brandon Sanderson's intriguing tale of love, loss, despair and hope, a new kind of magic enters the stage - Allomancy, a magic of the metals.

When I first read the synopsis i thought oooh metal magic - Magneto 0.o But boy was I wrong. The types of magic Sanderson invents is soo intricate and intelligent.  There's allomantic metals, and each metal gives you different abilities (physical or mental). Some people have the ability to control one allomantic metal ...and then there's mistborn- who can control all of them.

They are pretty fancy. xp

There's not really one main character.. the book pretty much switches between two main people but you basically get to know whoever Sanderson wants you to know about ;) Because trust me- during your time reading this book- HE CONTROLS YOU- happiness, sadness, anger, jealousy... All of it 0.0 It's hard to describe my favourite characters without revealing some of the spoilerish awesome things I love about them, but Kelsier, Vin and Sazed have pretty much become my favourite book people. I love the balance Sanderson gives in every character. No one was too perfect..and no one was too terribly annoying. They were just like real people you met in everyday life (minus the awesome allomancy ). Reading about characters can get frustrating and boring if you don't feel a connection with them, or you feel like they're just too unrealistically brave or selfless *ahem* Tris *ahem* With Kelsier and his crew, I felt like I was a member of his little rebellious family. I'd get annoyed at some characters, want to kill others, then hug them, then stab them again xp

The action never drags..and something I really appreciate because I've seen some books fail to make it easy- is the clarity in the fight sequences. You know and visualise exactly what's going on, and considering all the fancy new ways of fighting in this book..what with all the coins and the metals... I think that's a pretty awesome and impressive thing to do.

What I also loved with this book was the satisfaction of the ending. Usually with trilogies when you're not reading the last book in the series you always feel scared that the author will cut the story off at a horrible or super boring point. Here I felt completely satisfied. Nothing was rushed or hurried.. I was desperate for the second book but for the perfect reasons. I'd almost admit that I wouldn't mind if Brandon Sanderson left it at this book...but that would be a lie because I don't think I'll ever get enough of the terrifying and incredible world of Mistborn ;)

So yeah... read it!!!

~The potterhead panemaniac pancake lover~

More Than This by Jay McLean

 Title: More than this

Author: Jay McLean

Rating: 6/10

NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BASED ON ITS GOODREADS RATING

I learnt that the hard way and had to read this illogical excuse for a book just so I could write another book review. I admit it was interesting to see how the situation was handled but in some places it was completely illogical and crazy and made me question how much thought people put into books when reading them. 

More than this is the first book in the More series, and revolves around the life and circumstances of Mikayla after 'the tragic incident' that happens the day of her pre-prom party, the tragic incident being her finding out that her best friend and boyfriend have been doing the forbidden deed for two years and her entire family dies. Dramatic I  know. All this happens in the first few pages of the book. Which may be a good thing because the other main character Jake and a bunch of his friends are all introduced in the middle of this confusion and murder. 

Mikayla has no place to live so she picks the next best choice: go live with the random dude who you met 20 minutes ago. And yes his parents agree to this. Which is fine because of the situation she's in but she could be a murderer or a thief or something (she isn't don't worry).

What I loved about the book was the gradual story-line, Nothing was rushed, there were no cliff-hanger moments, and the characters were pretty much the best part. All the friends were funny and accepting. Everyone needs friends like that. 

I don't have much to review on this book; nothing big really even happened. Mikayla got sad, Jake helped, and the rest of the book is just them living and her trying (and failing) to cope with her family dying. I'm not even going to mention the fact that she didn't care about where her friend disappeared to or who killed her family until someone else brought it up and talked to her about it. 

 Literally I could write a book about my life and it might have had more drama than the book (or maybe it would be a compilation of me explaining all my different sitting positions while watching tv or reading) 

More than this made no sense, but then at times it made perfect sense. The female protagonist was a whiny desperate girl who didn't want a boy to help her but got miserable and teary eyed every time he got mad or ignored her. And there's the part where she does basically everything you would do to your boyfriend but says he's "just a friend" because she's dealing with too many things to get in a relationship. IF YOU DON'T WANT A RELATIONSHIP WHY ARE YOU LETTING HIM INTO YOUR ROOM EVERY NIGHT YOU MENTAL HOMELESS HUMAN POTATO

 And the guy was too perfect, even for a book. He made up his own worst case scenarios for no reason, understood Mikayla too well and had perfect friends >_>. I love his friends but they're too unreal and perfect. Yes I'm going to read their stories too shh.

Another thing that bothered me was that Mikayla's parents were okay with their 9 year daughter being familiar with male body parts and there were a lot of Justin Bieber and One Direction references which I think you need permission to use because of copyrighting or something *ILLEGAL BOOK ILLEGAL BOOK ILLEGAL BOOK*

But they did change Zac Efron to Zac Teflon or something.

So what I'm trying to say is, read this illegal, illogical, interesting, intrusive book that goes into too much detail on a few scenes. And I would like to mention to Ms. McLean, I highly doubt man-parts can snap in half. It's just muscle. Muscles don't snap. I have never heard of someone saying "oh i broke my tongue in half". There's no bone. It cannot snap! So yeah, do some research on the human body before writing okay?

 I have very mixed feelings about this book so I probably would recommend it to others but then I don't want to be that person who recommended a weirdly odd book. 

-The Lady Of Cheese