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Mistborn: The Final Empire

by Brandon Sanderson Publisher: TOR BOOKS

An uprising in a world ruled by an immortal emperor

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    The Mistborn Series: over 10 million copies sold

    The Mistborn Series is reported to have sold over 10 million copies; this is a series-level sales milestone, not...

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An uprising in a world ruled by an immortal emperor

In *Mistborn: The Final Empire*, a failed attempt to save the world has left it a wasteland of ash and mist under the Lord Ruler’s control. The resistance takes shape as a high-stakes caper, joining criminal strategy with political intrigue and the rise of an unlikely heroine: a street urchin learning to wield the power of a Mistborn. That blend gives the book’s conflict both a practical goal—challenging an empire—and a larger fantasy backdrop of oppression, survival, and hope. It is the opening novel of Sanderson’s Mistborn Saga, setting up a story where the mechanics of an uprising and the heroine’s emerging abilities are closely linked.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult fantasy readers interested in epic-scale worlds and resistance against an oppressive ruler.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining a caper with political intrigue.
  • Readers interested in a heroine learning to master a supernatural power.

Themes

Resistance and rebellionOppression and survivalHope after failurePower and mastery

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Book overview

Now with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga.

Once, a hero arose to save the world. He failed.

Ever since, the world has been a wasteland of ash and mist controlled by the immortal emperor known as the Lord Ruler.

But hope survives. A new uprising is forming, one built around the ultimate caper, the cunning of a brilliant criminal mastermind, and the determination of an unlikely heroine: a street urchin who must learn to master the power of a Mistborn.

Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

The Cosmere
The Stormlight Archive

● The Way of Kings
● Words of Radiance
● Edgedancer (novella)
● Oathbringer
● Dawnshard (novella)
● Rhythm of War

● Wind and Truth

The Mistborn Saga
The Original Trilogy
● Mistborn
● The Well of Ascension
● The Hero of Ages


Wax & Wayne
● The Alloy of Law
● Shadows of Self
● The Bands of Mourning
● The Lost Metal


Other Cosmere novels
● Elantris
● Warbreaker
● Tress of the Emerald Sea
● Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
● The Sunlit Man


Collection
● Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
● Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
● The Scrivener's Bones
● The Knights of Crystallia
● The Shattered Lens
● The Dark Talent
● Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians
(with Janci Patterson)

Other novels
● The Rithmatist
● Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
● The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England


Other books by Brandon Sanderson

The Reckoners
● Steelheart
● Firefight
● Calamity
● Lux
(with Steven Michael Bohls)

Skyward
● Skyward
● Starsight
● Cytonic
● Skyward Flight
(with Janci Patterson)
● Defiant

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