Review: The Lost Metal

The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was late to the party with all the previous Mistborn novels of both eras for a variety of reasons, but I do still appreciate that it was a particularly long wait for this conclusion to Era Two, Wax & Wayne (and Marasi too!) A particularly long wait by any standard, but especially Sanderson’s, given his incredibly prolific nature. But now, as Mistborn reaches its tentative halfway point and we await Era Three to presumably start publishing in 2025, The Lost Metal justifies its long wait in so many ways, and even makes me want to go back and re-read the whole series from the start again. Expanding on the world map of Scadrial for the first time, showing so much more of this rusting land and countries beyond the grand city of Elendel, really hammering home the connections to elsewhere in the Cosmere, and building up to some of the most shatteringly high stakes Sanderson has written yet…suffice it to say that while the Cosmere is far from finished, for this segment, Sanderson absolutely sticks the landing.

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