Judul : The Lost Metal
Penulis : Brandon Sanderson
Tebal : 507 halaman
Penerbit : Tor Books
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner, Wayne, find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between the capital, Elendel, and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate—whose corruption Wax and his wife, Steris, have sought to expose—and Bilming is even more entangled.
After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere—Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost.
Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.
After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere—Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost.
Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.
Review:
Sesuai dengan jeda penerbitan buku ini dengan buku sebelumnya, ada jeda 6 tahun dari ending terakhir The Bands of Mourning. Agak bagus juga sebenarnya. Saya mulai diingatkan kembali posisi tiga karakter utama di seri Mistborn Era 2 ini.
Wax yang sudah pensiun dari perannya sebagai senjatanya Harmony akhirnya sibuk dengan urusan politik di antara para bangsawan. Dia dan Steris sudah punya anak sehingga perannya lebih di latar belakang. Sementara itu, Marasi masih tetap menjadi detektif dan Wayne jadi partnernya di kepolisian. Mereka aktif menyelidiki tentang sisa-sisa misteri penjahat dari buku sebelumya.
Saya sudah menuliskan bahwa buku The Bands of Mourning agak terlalu random dan tiba-tiba berganti arah dengan munculnya misteri baru. Misteri itu memang berlanjut di buku ini. Logam yang hilang kembali ditemukan dan dunia Mistborn ini semakin luas karena kemunculan para karakter yang bisa berpindah dunia dalam seri Cosmere. Saya bukan penggemar fanatik yang tahu segala hal tentang Cosmere, jadi mungkin itu kenapa saya tidak sesuka itu sama buku ini seperti pembaca lainnya. Saya malah merasa agak overwhelmed sama semua yang terjadi. Untung saja, saya membaca seluruh cerpen dan novela mengenai Mistborn sehingga tidak terlalu tersesat. Ternyata cerpen dan novela itu bacaan wajib sebelum buku ini. Kemunculan tokoh lama yang tiba-tiba itu akan sangat aneh kalau tidak membaca Mistborn: The Secret History. Walaupun, saya tetap kurang suka dengan kemunculan tokoh itu. Saya tahu dia ada peran penting nantinya karena sepertinya akan ada Mistborn Era 3. Tapi gitu deh.
Endingnya agak bikin sedih sih. Saya tahu dari tengah-tengah buku salah satu tokoh pasti akan mati. Death flag banget. Hanya saja saya mengikuti tokoh itu dari awal hingga sekarang. Benar-benar kerasa sakit hatinya.
Seri Mistborn Era 2:
4. The Lost Metal
4/5
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