This book is not only the third book in a trilogy, but it’s Act Three of the the three-act structure for the Mistborn Trilogy—it’s the part of the story where the heroes have discovered that what they thought was the problem all along was not the true danger, and now …
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This book is not only the third book in a trilogy, but it’s Act Three of the the three-act structure for the Mistborn Trilogy—it’s the part of the story where the heroes have discovered that what they thought was the problem all along was not the true danger, and now they’re fighting for not only their own survival but that of the world they live in. The mists are killing people and staying out much longer than they should. The Ashmounts are spewing more and more choking ash into the sky, burying the crops that everyone needs to eat to live. And Ruin, the creature Vin was tricked into freeing from its prison of a millennium, is loose to wreak havoc upon the land. Life under the Lord Ruler is starting to look like paradise in comparison.
While the first book in the trilogy turned the standard fantasy story on its head, this volume (perhaps inevitably?) returns in a way to the tropes the first volume was a reaction against. Yet in this case the enemy is not a human or humanlike Dark Lord, but something more like a force of nature—entropy itself given a will and a guiding personality in the form of Ruin.
Ultimately, the book is about how the characters we have grown to love from the previous volumes—Vin, Elend, Sazed, TenSoon, Spook, Marsh, and others—find the courage and faith to fight on in the face of overwhelming odds, just as Kelsier taught them when he plotted the downfall of the Final Empire.
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The Hero of Ages
Hardcover, 572 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2008 by Tor.
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El héroe de las eras
Hardcover, 760 pages
Español language
Published Nov. 17, 2021 by Nova.
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- 978-84-18037-29-0Copied ISBN!
El héroe de las eras
Paperback, 757 pages
Spanish language
Published June 29, 2013 by B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B), B de Bolsillo.
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- 978-84-9872-795-1Copied ISBN!
El héroe de las eras
Hardcover, 760 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 31, 2017 by Nova.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-666-5891-1Copied ISBN!
The Hero of Ages
Paperback, 768 pages
Published Oct. 7, 2014 by Tor Teen.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7653-7715-9Copied ISBN!
Hero of Ages
English language
Published April 14, 2010 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-575-08994-5Copied ISBN!
The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
785 pages
Published Oct. 14, 2008 by Tor Books.
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- 978-1-4299-6030-4Copied ISBN!
The Hero of Ages
audio cd
Published Sept. 29, 2015 by Macmillan Audio.
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- 978-1-4272-7509-7Copied ISBN!
The Hero of Ages
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Published May 1, 2012 by Macmillan Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4272-2825-3Copied ISBN!
The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three
Published Sept. 20, 2018 by Gollancz.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4732-2305-9Copied ISBN!
Hero of Ages
784 pages
English language
Published April 15, 2019 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-250-31862-6Copied ISBN!
El Héroe de Las Eras
760 pages
Spanish language
Published April 15, 2021 by Ediciones B Mexico.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-1314-374-3Copied ISBN!
The Hero of Ages
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Published Jan. 1, 2011 by Sound Library.
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- 978-0-7927-7644-4Copied ISBN!
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