What can I say but a very welcome return to the Mist Born world in a new trilogy. I didn't realize I was looking forward to this return until I read the book and then understood I had been wanting more of this part of Sanderson's world and I just didn't notice it. With this book Sanderson continues to establish himself as one of the best writers out there as he seems to weave through all sorts of genres: fantasy, western, steampunk, and buddy cop story with an ease that is simply mind boggling.
He continues the story with the characters originally established in Alloy of Law and further fleshes out the two main characters Wax and Wayne (who is easily one of my favorite characters in all literature - he is a joy to read on paper as his perspective on life is unlike any other character I've ever read). I really liked the way he explored the character of Steris, letting her explode on the page more than she had in first book. This was one of favorite parts in the book.
Sanderson continues to be a one of best writers at exploring worlds and not settling for recycling previous story lines and he is not afraid to give answers to questions. That is a hard thing to come by into today's world of world building where most people seem to only want to hold the cards to everything close their chest and never reveal anything. Sanderson is very opposite of most writers today in that regard as he also writes what I would call "Comfort Fantasy" not concerned with dark themed, realistic ideas but with only the sole idea being - lets just tell a good story with some good characters.
Looking forward to the next two books in the trilogy.
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