Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

I loved this book. Ask my husband and he'll tell you. I seriously disappeared for a few days and hijacked his nook to read it (his own fault since he was the one that had me read it). I didn't want to read it for a really long time but I finally caved. It's a fantasy book which isn't my usual genre of book.  It's book 1 in a 3 book series. It's about a girl named Vin who gets recruited by a man named Kelsier and his gang to try to overtake the lord Ruler. There are people called mistings who have the ability to burn different allomantic metals that give them different types of powers. A person who can burn all of these metals are called mistborn. Mistborn are like Ninjas on steroids. They use metals to push and pull themselves through the air like they can fly plus have super human strength speed agility etc etc. Anyways, there is this thing called the steel ministry which the Lord Ruler created and there are steel inquisitors, kind of like police, who have big metal spikes through their eyeballs...basically you don't want to mess with them or you will most likely die a really terrible death. This world isn't a very sympathetic one. You have the nobility (early lord ruler supporters descendants) and you have the skaa (descendants of people who did not support the lord ruler that are peasants).

I know it all sounds crazy and it is crazy but honestly I really couldn't put this book down. I don't want to go into more than what I already have because I don't want to give away anything or make anything more confusing (it took me a while to fully understand everything). I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is looking for something that is totally out of this world. There isn't anything like Mistborn and there are aspects of this book that i wish could be reality. It would be AWESOME!

I give it 4 out of 5 stars.