Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson

This is the second book of the second Mistborn trilogy, set three hundred years after the last trilogy. The technology of the world has come a long way, but this book especially references back to what happened in the previous trilogy (the first book of this series was lacking that to some degree).

I really enjoyed the women characters in this book – Marasi is a full constable now, and learning to navigate in a world that is not as equal as people want to think it is; Steris actually gets to be a person in this book – I can’t wait to see where that goes in the final volume; and there are a couple other female characters that would be very spoilery to give away, but had some amazing plot twists.

I also really enjoyed the religious commentary. We get to see here that Sazed is really a god now (we should call him Harmony), and being a god is far from easy. I am very interested to see where Wax’s relationship to Harmony goes from where it was left at the end of this book.

An enjoyable read. I still think I like the first trilogy better, but this one is growing on me.