The Final Empire is the first installment in a 7 book long series titled "Mistborn". The first three is considered a standalone trilogy while the remaining books take place in the same world but 200 years later.
We follow Vin, a skinny, misunderstood, hungry Skaa girl who stuck to the side of a villainous man who was trying to weasel his way a large fortune. On a most important trip to convince a merchant to work with him, he brought Vin with him, for he considered her his lucky charm. Vin has special powers, powers that she considered as 'luck', which she had trouble controlling and its discovery will lead to her death.
That was when she met Kelsier, the smart, sassy, notorious leader of the rebellion against the Final Empire and its cruel and immortal king, the Lord Ruler.
Kelsier is a Mistborn, someone who possesses the abilities to manipulate the different metals of the earth. However, he first needs to ingest a small amount of the metal before he could do so. For example, but ingesting tin, his sight and hearing becomes enhances. If he ingests pewter, he gains extraordinary strength and durability for as long as the metal inside him lasts before it burns out.
There are only three Mistborns left in the world according to Kelsier--him, Vin, and the Lord Ruler, with the latter being the original and the most powerful of them all. Kelsier and Vin, like the many others, are Skaas (also known as slaves) who led a life of pain, starvation and hardship. In a world where ashes rained from the sky, the grass were brown and you serve your entire life away, Kelsier decided to bring together those who would stand up and fight and led the ultimate rebellion against the Lord Ruler, ending his reign once and for all.
Everything seemed easy, innocent, for Kelsier claimed he had a weapon called the Eleventh Metal that could end the Lord Ruler. However, his trusted friends weren't convinced. I wasn't convinced either, because there was no way a metal could bring someone so ancient and powerful to his knees.
The Final Empire is a story that brings out the best in modern high fantasy. There are tears, anger, heartbreak, death, love and SO MUCH TEARS. SO MUCH. Every single page and twist of the story is unexpected. The foreshadowing is so well done it keeps on coming back and slapping me in the face with every progressing chapter. The prophecies, the religion, the world building, everything is WELL DONE.
Reading Mistborn is probably the best decision I have made in my entire life. This book just broke the scale of awesomeness.
And the ending.
I can't.
*weeps and throws a city at the author*
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