Series
Wax and Wayne
Brandon Sanderson · 4 novels · 1 short story · 2011–2022
Set three hundred years after the original Mistborn trilogy, in a Scadrial that has industrialized into something like a pulp-adventure Old West, Wax and Wayne follows a retired lawman dragged back into crime-fighting alongside his gambler partner, using the same magic system aimed here at heists and manhunts instead of revolution. Brandon Sanderson's quartet - The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning, The Lost Metal - forms the second era of Mistborn within his larger Cosmere, shifting tone from epic fantasy toward a magic-powered detective story.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 2010s4
- 2020s1
Shape
4 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:fantasymurder investigationsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Shadows of Selfdarkest · most intense
- The Lost Metalbrightest
- The Bands of Mourningcalmest