Title: Mistborn: Secret History
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Collection: Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 155 of 831
Published: 2016, Tor Books
My Grade: 5 out of 5
Review Summary: WOW! If you have read Mistborn Era 1 and finished The Bands of Mourning in Era 2; you are in for a treat to reach a higher understanding of the Cosmere universe.

GOODREADS’ DESCRIPTION

Mistborn: Secret History is a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn (The Final Empire), The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages. It also contains very minor spoilers for the book The Bands of Mourning. Mistborn: Secret History builds upon the characterization, events, and worldbuilding of the original trilogy. Reading it without that background will be a confusing process at best. In short, this isn’t the place to start your journey into Mistborn. (Though if you have read the trilogy—but it has been a while—you should be just fine, so long as you remember the characters and the general plot of the books.) Saying anything more here risks revealing too much. Even knowledge of this story’s existence is, in a way, a spoiler. There’s always another secret.

MY REVIEW

I had no idea what I was getting myself into when starting this short story. It is a story taking place parallel to the full Era 1 trilogy. The description says that there are minor spoilers for The Bands of Mourning (third in era 2), but I would like to argue that the ending of Bands of Mourning is a spoiler for Secret History.

All throughout the story, you know what goes on in the background, in the main story. Yet you desperately wish for it to end in another way. Not a direct spoiler: but it doesn’t. Sanderson is too good to change timelines in the middle of it all, haha. In general, I haven’t been able to spot many, if any, plot holes.

Honestly, I can’t really write anything about this story without spoiling, haha! But I absolutely loved to follow this character and what’s more: the Cosmere itself was finally introduced. So far, I haven’t really seen the planet of Scadrial’s place in the Cosmere. I do now. And I can’t wait to see how big this universe truly is.

The only thing I can say, if you have read all the main novels in Sander’s Cosmere and skipped out on his short stories, drop what you’re doing and read them now!

The only frustrating thing about it is that at the end, he writes that he intended this to be a minor trilogy parallell to the Mistborn story. But there is no information regarding when or if the two last instalments will ever be written 💔

To summarize this very vague review, can I give it more than 5? I feel like this deserve a 6 on my scale of 5. Brandon Sanderson keeps getting my favorite author after everything I read from him.