The Rithmatist

     This week, I would like to introduce you The Rithmatist (陣學師).The Rithmatist is another series novels by Brandon, which means another masterpiece.
     The story is set in Nebrask (內布拉斯卡), American Isles (合眾島). People here are threatened by wild chalkling, and there are few rithmatists responsible for defending. Rithmatists have powerful skills that they could use chalks drawing different patterns to defend or attack. How well and standard the patterns decide their power. Also, there is a college professionally teaching Rithamatic (陣學).
     Joel is a young man in the college who is addicted to Rithamatic, but he isn't born as a Rithamatist, which means the patterns he drew isn't work. However, he has talent to draw the patterns well. Melody is his good friend as well as a  rithma
tist. One day, the students in the college are disappearing one after another, no one knows where are they or whether they are still alive or not. Joel and Melody find something strange, could they follow the cues to find out the answer? Who is the plotter behind the scheme?
   


    At last, I want to share a song, The Hanging Tree. It's a sound track from The Hunger Games movie. The lyrics are very simple, but I was touched by it in the theater.

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The Eleventh Metal

     If you have no idea about Mistborn trilogy (迷霧之子三部曲), you could spend a little time to read my posts “The Mistbon Trilogy” in October before you read this post.

                   The Mistborn Trilogy

            

     In the Mistborn trilogy, Kelsier (凱西爾) is the most popular role for readers. However, Brandon didn’t give readers the story of Kelsier in the trilogy, so he write this story to tell us how did Kelsier become the legend and what triggered him to come up with the plan to overthrow Lord Ruler. It’s a kind of the prequel of the Mistborn trilogy.

     This story is about the time between Kelsier escaped from Hathsin (海辛司), the toughest jail in the story, and Kelsier started his plan to overthrow the government. Brandon described Kelsier’s mood about the death of Mare (梅兒), his lover, and process of him to learn the skills of the Allomancy (鎔金術) among this time from Gemmel (蓋爾).

     Trough this prequel, you will gain more information about Kelsier that isn’t mentioned in the Mistborn trilogy, so just let us immerse in the story and feel the charm of Kelsier again.

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Steelheart

Steelheart(鋼鐵心), the first book of the Reckoners sereies(審判者系列). I think its setting of the magical power is a little bit like X-men. This time, Brandon didn’t create another new world, for instead, the story was set in Chicago.

One day, there was a Calamity(禍星) appearing , and some people become Epics(異能者) and got different power. Every epic has his or her own weakness, letting anyone else to know the weakness can be dangerous and even fatal.

Steelheart(鋼鐵心), however, seems like invincible. He could resist any kinds of attack, destroy anything and turn any objects into steel. With his powers, he become the ruler of the Chicago, and turned the whole city into steel and renamed it as Newcago(新芝加哥).

Specially, the leading role in this book, David Charleston, is only a normal person. He doesn’t have any power, but he once saw Steelheart bleeding which makes him always keep in mind that Steelheart must have a weakness. He joined the Reckoners, a group aims at killing all evil epics, and planned to overthrow the new government and kill the Steelheart. Can he find out Steelheart’s weakness successfully? Just wait and see.

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The Emperor's Soul

This week, I’m going to introduce Brandon’s short-term novel, The Emperor’s soul. The novel won the Hugo’s award in 2013. The most special is that the inspiration of the story is from Brandon’s visit to National Palace museum.

The story is set in the same world in the novel Elantris. However, this time Brandon focused on the other magical power called “Forge(仿造)”,and for whom have this skill are called “Forger(仿師)”. Forgers believe that everything has its souls and history, through understanding and guessing the background of the objects, they can carve a “soulstamp(魂印)” and stamp on the objects to convince them become something else.

Again, Brandon has a female leading role. Wan ShaiLu, who is an excellent Forger, was caught because a betrayal in a plan to steal a picture and replace it with the Forgery(仿品) in the palace. Accidentally, she was involved into a fight between different political forces. The emperor was killed, and she was asked to curve the solstamp of Emperor’s spiritual to let him recover from the brain hurt. Also, she has to try her best to survive in the 

insidious political fight. Can she make it? Or she will be 

beaten down? Just find the answer by yourself.

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