With SoS I quite enjoyed the Sazed perspective, particularly as he deals with the realities of divinity. Carry over characters from Alloy of Law and the Mistborn books, such as Tensoon, the Kandra and Sazed, add a welcome continuity.
Because of this we are given a plot which builds layer by layer with familiar and unfamiliar themes. Wax and Wayne feel like they have been given more room to breathe, to stretch their proverbial legs and let the reader get a firmer grasp of who they are and what makes them tick. Wayne’s internal monologue and turn of phrase provides the humour, while Wax supplies the moral compass and drive, with his desire for justice forged during his years in the raw and wild of the Roughs. They are a pair of fast-talking, long thinking and quick acting agents of law and order. Wax and Wayne once again take up the role of independent Lawmen for the city of Elendel. On the other hand, if you can't wait that long to jump into Shadows of Self, Sanderson does provide a little of the backstory as the narrative progresses. Whilst it is not strictly necessary to read the original series you really should read Alloy of Law to ground yourself in the story’s modern history. A rewarding struggle but a struggle none the less. However, if you have not read any of the Mistborn series (where have you been - a cave in the ground awaiting the world to spin itself to harmony?) then you are going to struggle. Shadows of Self takes the ethos and the quality of the Mistborn trilogy and offers it back to the reader from a new perspective, giving you the best of the old, with the adventure of the new. As they say, once you go Sanderson you don’t go back. In reality, if you are reading Shadows of Self, you may have already read Alloy of Law and/or the Mistborn series. While there is a history and depth of knowledge already in place its delivery comes across as a fresh beginning, of a story building itself anew. Shadows of Self is the second in Brandon Sanderson’s “Wax and Wayne” series, but you could be forgiven in feeling it is a first. Lord Waxillium 'Wax' Ladrain, self-styled Guardian and Lawman of Elendel and his trusted companion Wayne, rare Twinborns who can use both Allomantic and Feruchemical powers return once more, working against the clock to halt civil unrest and solve the mystery of who is masterminding the instability gripping the city. However, not all is as Harmony wished it to be.
The time of Allomantic and Feruchemical powers is waning, as steel and technology take its grip on a newborn land. Several hundred years have past since the rebirth of Scadrialand, its peoples emerging from the long dark earth and stepping into the light of a new world, a world of balance, where perseveration and ruin can coexist in harmony.
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