Publisher: Tor Books
Published Date: July 13, 2021
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: ★★★★★
REVIEW
I couldn't have been more excited to read this book. The first era Mistborn were some of my first tastes of adult fantasy. I immediately fell in love with the magic system and characters. While I still very much enjoyed era two, they are a completely different feel. Less apocalyptic, more buddy cop/western, while still having the same magic. This was not only the end of an era, but it was highly anticipated by me because of the last Stormlight book.
SYNOPSIS
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner, Wayne, find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between the capital, Elendel, and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate—whose corruption Wax and his wife, Steris, have sought to expose—and Bilming is even more entangled.
After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere—Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost.
Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.
MY THOUGHTS
I absolutely LOVED this book! This was exactly what I needed to wrap up Wax and Wayne's journey. The Lost Metal had amazing pacing and right when something happened, where some authors choose to slow down for impact, Sanderson keeps up the excitement without losing that. Another thing that he does incredibly well is character development. I have read a lot of series where, in the last book, it is mostly plot focused with the character development having wrapped up in the previous books. Sanderson was able to still develop his characters while keeping the book plot forward. I loved that we got to read a lot more from Wayne's perspective as well, since the previous few had been heavily leaning towards Wax's storyline. We really got to understand Wayne more here. While many may look at him as a "goofy sidekick" (as I've seen him described in various reviews), that tends to completely forget his backstory that made him the way he is. His journey, was perhaps one of the more emotional and touching arcs of this entire book, while at the same time, serving as a comic relief.
All of the Cosmere Easter eggs were also great. I loved that we delved more into the Ghostbloods. There were some implications from the Stormlight Archives as well as Elantris. I have read that many people didn't like the Cosmere connections, and I am absolutely baffeled by that. Everyone should know going into this book that is is part of larger story. While, yes, each series is able to stand on its own, it will definitely be confusing if you are not caught up with his other works. A few key characters that were either introduced or reintroduced were Moonlight and TwinSoul, both with played a huge role in The Lost Metal. Marasi was also more heavily featured, playing an integral part of fighting against the Set.
As always, Sanderson writes actions sequences incredibly well. It is so easy for me to picture exactly what each character is doing while Pushing or Pulling on the various metals. It was fast paced from the beginning and didn't really let up. However, I didn't dislike that. He was able to keep this book on the shorter end while still packing in a ton of information. From the prologue of Wayne's childhood, to the various epilogues, each with takes place in a different time from a different POV, I felt like this wrapped up Wax and Wayne's story so perfectly. Overall, I completely loved this book and cannot wait to read his secret novels next year. If I could amend my favorites list and my Goodreads choice, I absolutely would.
I'll leave you here with a quote from The Lost Metal that made me cry:
“He sat staring at the door for a long time. He wasn’t wearing a hat, which meant he had to just be himself. The true him, the one that knew this pain. They’d ridden together on many a dusty path. This pain had been his invisible friend since childhood.
The pain of knowing what he really was.
The pain of being worthless.”
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