Book Review of "Mistborn #7 - The Lost Metal"

"It was entirely too easy to make things worse while trying to make them better."

“The Lost Metal” has everything that I love about the Mistborn series - amazing action set pieces, crisp dialogues, logical character evolutions, and a final showdown that neatly ties up all the loose ends with a thunderous, satisfying bang! Even though you can see the “twist” coming from miles away, the execution is beautiful and you can’t help but appreciate the simplicity and elegance of the story created. This book wraps up the “Mistborn Era 2” and as far as I can tell - it more than sets up the next Era. It's going to be fun! 

One caveat though - unlike the previous 6 books, this one isn’t completely “disconnected” from the rest of the “Cosmere” Universe. It was a bit off-putting that the reader is expected to accept - at face value - at least a couple of new magical systems - when in the past, the rules of the Metal-based magic system that is used throughout the Mistborn series - were very clearly laid out and explained. 

That being said, for someone like me, who hasn’t read anything apart from the Mistborn series from the “Cosmere” universe, this isn’t a deal-breaker. If anything, it motivates you to read the other Cosmere stuff as soon as you can. Maybe that was the Endgame Sanderson had in mind anyway. All in all, a perfect holiday read.

"But that’s what friends were about. Making you look a little silly when you were together so that you didn’t look really stupid when you were apart."