Mistborn: The Final Empire
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Brandon Sanderson's 2006 fantasy novel opens the Mistborn series in the Final Empire, a land of ash and mist ruled for a thousand years by the immortal Lord Ruler, whose nobles hold the skaa peasants in servitude. Street thief Vin discovers she is Mistborn, able to swallow and burn metals to gain Allomantic powers. She joins Kelsier, a survivor of the Lord Ruler's prison mines, and his crew of thieves as they plan a heist meant to topple the empire.
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- Tim Ferriss: “I'm in the process of reading Mistborn right now and I'm ripping through it.”