Mistborn cont.

     I often times find myself magnetically attracted by my book, however no longer due to its appearance but by the content lying underneath its cover.  Most commonly I'm able to find the time to read before falling asleep at night.  In the morning I always have the privilege of playing "what impossible location did my book teleport to once I fell asleep reading it."  This is probably my favorite game and can be played in many varieties using phones, wallets, or iPods.  Due to this pattern of passing out while reading Mistborn my dreams have been filled with the movie my mind has created for the book.
     As the book unfolds Allomancy an element of the story formerly surrounded by an air of mystery is now a huge factor of the book.  An ability only supposed to be possible for nobility and impossible for skaa, allows for feats that shouldn't be possible for normal humans.  "Allomancy.  The mystical power held by nobility, granted to them by the Lord Ruler some thousand years before as a reward for their loyalty."  The basics of Allomancy is that in internally burning different metals you can harness different powers.  For example in burning tin you gain heighten sense, pewter increased strength, and steel allows you to push or pull metals.  While nobility are supposed to be the only ones capable of these ability there are half-bloods of nobility and skaa who have lived despite the Lord Ruler's people hunting their kind.  Allomancy is weird in that you either have the ability to use one metal, or can use them all.  Specialized users of one type of Allomancy are called mistings, while users of all the types are known as mistborn.  These are extremely rare, especially among half breeds.  Our protagonists, Kelsier and Vin, the only half bred mistborns in existence, plan to do what hasn't been attempted in centuries, overthrow The Final Empire.  Vin, motivated by the dream of freedom, and Kelsier, driven by the desire to take revenge on the Lord Ruler personally after taking the life of his wife and nearly taking his as well, are raising a small faction of the best Allomancers dreaming of freedom available.  Thus far in reading Mistborn I've been very captivated, Sanderson captures the action of whats going on perfectly while maintaining a lighthearted and humorous side to things.