Review: Very nice short story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 8, 2010
This was my first exposure to Sanderson and I have to say I was very pleased. I've been considering picking up the Mistborn trilogy and before I made that commitment, I decided to give this short story a spin to see what I thought. The story itself moved quickly and I could see where if Sanderson had wanted to where he could have expanded greatly on the story and turned into a full size novel. The plot is interesting, the characters engaging and there were a few twists that I hadn't seen coming. The story is a study of nurture vs. nature to a degree and human nature in general, but set against a revolutionary war/sci-fi back drop. It almost all works quite well and while the ending was a little "off" from what I think it could have been, it was still quite enjoyable.This is a very short read - around an hour or less - and definitely worth the time/money.