The Bands Of Mourning
Pages: 448
Edition: Hardcover
List Price: $27.99
Publisher: Tor/Tom Doherty
ISBN: 9780765378576
First entered: 30th, Jan 2016
Number of weeks: 2
Book Summary
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.Other Tor books by Brandon SandersonThe Cosmere
The Stormlight Archive
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Novella)
Oathbringer (forthcoming)
The Mistborn trilogy
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series
Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of MourningCollection
Arcanum UnboundedOther Cosmere novels
Elantris
WarbreakerThe Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
The Scrivener's Bones
The Knights of Crystallia
The Shattered Lens
The Dark TalentThe Rithmatist series
The RithmatistOther books by Brandon Sanderson
The Reckoners
Steelheart
Firefight
Calamity
Authors
Name: Brandon Sanderson
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
About the author:
Brandon’s major books for the beginning of 2016 are
The Bands of Mourning
, the sixth Mistborn novel, and
Calamity
, the finale of the Reckoners trilogy.
He also released his longest novella yet,
Mistborn: Secret History
, which explores behind the scenes of the original Mistborn Trilogy and thus is filled with spoilers for those three books; it also has some spoilers for The Bands of Mourning.
Brandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him
Dragonsbane
by Barbara Hambly.
Brandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. Tor has published
Elantris
, the Mistborn trilogy and its followup
The Alloy of Law
,
Warbreaker
, and
The Way of Kings
and
Words of Radiance
, the first two in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; 2009’s
The Gathering Storm
and 2010’s
Towers of Midnight
were followed by the final book in the series,
A Memory of Light
, in January 2013. Four books in his middle-grade
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
series were released by Scholastic, and his novella
Infinity Blade Awakening
was an ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. Two more novellas,
Legion
and
The Emperor s Soul
, were released by Subterranean Press and Tachyon Publications in 2012, and 2013 brought two young adult novels,
The Rithmatist
from Tor and
Steelheart
from Delacorte.
The only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings. The Emperor’s Soul won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella. He has appeared on the New York Times Best-Seller List multiple times, with five novels hitting the #1 spot.
Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.
