Mistborn Liveblog 2

Mistborn Chapter 1

I'm settling on a schedule of one chapter each day, Monday through Friday for my liveblogging. That will give anyone following along plenty of time, and will complete the book in just about a month and a half. Not to mention that I'm not trying to push this through in a sprint, though that could be fun for another time.

This first Chapter did not really grab me so far. I know it's a lot of setting up characters and backgrounds, and the prologue did give me enough of interest to keep me going. It's just that I'm not too sure how much I like the characters so far, and there's been like six new ones-- Vin, Camon, Reen, Ulef, Theron and Laird. Phew.

I found myself reminding me that I didn't get into The Eye of the World until page 68, so I can wade through some world building and scenario setup before I get hooked-- no biggie. I am kinda sad, though, that the story didn't keep up with the skaa from the Prologue or follow Kelsier after his escapade with them. I did sneak a peak on the first line of Chapter 2 and saw that Kelsier is back, so I'm glad for that.

But let's dive in a bit further.



Here we are introduced to who I presume will be the main character, Vin, now that we've entered the main storyline. I like her okay so far. She's in a bad spot with a theiving crew-- I'm hoping it's not the crew for the big heist against the Dark Lord (that Camon guy's got something bad coming, I hope) and they just seem too "ragtag" to really pull off anything big. Besides, Camon isn't even the mastermind of this heist, so it's not like he's got it in him to go against the Lord Ruler.

And Vin has got some metals to burn, though she doesn't know what it is she's doing. I like following someone who doesn't know their own strength. It reminds me of the first expisode of the 90s X-Men cartoon with Jubilee just leaning about her powers. Maybe Vin will get swooped off into a different crew the way Jubilee was with the X-Men. She gets herself into a jam with Camon or with the government and someone steps in to save her. I can go with that, so long as she grows into her own during the story.

Vin says she'd been using her Luck her whole life, though she didn't realize she was unique until she was 10. I wonder how that would work, for like a 5 year old. There's no one there to teach you what to do, you just kinda feel it? Or maybe it was that when she wanted something, she found that the wanting made it so, and later figured out that she only had a limited quantity. I wonder how many times she tried to push it too hard while she was still figuring it out, only to have it run out mid-stream-- like learning to go down the stairs without someone there to tell you to turn around and go feet first. I definitely see a place for the wise-sage character to come in and teach her all about this power. My money's on Kelsier, since he's the only other one who's burned metals (plus he's in the next chapter, apparently-- Yeah, I gotta stop looking at the next chapter like that.).

More to come tomorrow. Happy reading.

Jameson