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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 05-18-2012
It's the old west mixed with the magic of Sanderson's Mistborn series. It makes for a kind of weird story, almost steampunk except they use magic in place of the weird gadgets. You almost need to read the Mistborn series to remember how all the different magics work and what gods are important. But you can kind of get through it without it.
The characters are very stereotypical. There is the too good to be true lawmen and his wisecracking sidekick. He has to marry a cold women he doesn't love. He's more attracted to his bride to be's plucky half sister.
The lawman reluctantly returns to crime fighting when his affianced is abducted by a group of train robbers called 'The Vanishers' It is up to him because the city law agents are too inept to track down the robbers. There is tension because the coppers don't want the lawman taking the law into his own hands.
The book is a set-up for planned new trilogy set in this same milieu. I'll have to be far out of books to want to read those.
RE: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 01-23-2018
Making this a generic Sanderson thread:
Enjoyed Mistborn series, like Alloy of Law well enough, now into book (doorstop, paper-brick, ginormous book) two of the "Stormlight Archive" "Words of Radiance".
Enjoyable Epic Fantasy. Good world-building and good pacing for such a large tome. Book one was a little plodding in setting up the world, but is better paced here.
Better than Alloy of Law, which seemed pretty thin.