An edition of The Hero of Ages (2008)

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An edition of The Hero of Ages (2008)

The Hero of Ages

  • 4.6 (102 ratings) ·
  • 116 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 144 Have read

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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Tor
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English

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Sep 29, 2015, Macmillan Audio
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2015, MAG
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Oct 07, 2014, Tor Teen
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2014, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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El héroe de las eras
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Hero of Ages
2010, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Hero of Ages
2010, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
2009, Tor Fantasy
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The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
Oct 14, 2008, Tor Books
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The hero of ages
2008, Tor
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The hero of ages
2008, Tor
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The Hero of Ages
2008, Tor
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Hero of Ages
2008, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Edition Notes

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Published in
New York
Series
The Mistborn Saga #3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3619.A533 H47 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21836626M
ISBN 10
0765316897
ISBN 13
9780765316899
LCCN
2008031067
OCLC/WorldCat
191245491
Library Thing
5279788
Goodreads
2767793

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