The final book of the second Mistborn trilogy. Science has been progressing and cars are commonplace, cities are growing and there are technologies which even utilize the magical properties of the word, it is for example possible to store time alternating effects some people have in a grenade of sorts.
The city is under threat. There is a growing distrust between different settlements. Wax’s sister appears to be scheming for something, and it soon turns out that it is possible to construct a weapon equivalent to a nuclear device using rare allomantic metals. If they are combined in a properly exact way, there will be an enormous energy surge, enough to level a major city. The group leader, the sister, is planning to use that weapon - they have trouble developing the delivery mechanism. She is serving another god, who would like to get control of the planet and replace the current god (who is in talking terms with Wax). Are Wax and Wayne able to stop the attack and the possible death of millions of people?
That was a relatively crude synopsis: it is challenging to write a summary of the third part of a trilogy when most plotlines established in the earlier books are resolved. Everything is, of course, not completely resolved - there will be new books in this series, but at least most of the protagonists (the mortal ones) will change, and there will be a significant forward leap in time.
This was fun, entertaining, and fast-moving, perhaps the best of this trilogy. And, surprisingly, for Sanderson, there were a few dirty (and not bad) jokes. The magic system used in the book is interesting; the world appears to be based on magical principles that are, in essence, practical science, and can be harnessed and utilized in various ways, just like natural laws and mechanisms in our world. I really wonder what kind of “science” this world will produce? Waiting for the following parts.
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