#and in MoM the protag got all engrossed in this one noble family's issues and suddenly it became her crusade to save THEM

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mistborn is extremely juvenile in its 'anti-imperial' (and even thats a stretch) philosophy but it's surprisingly unrelenting so far. and I honestly prefer a protagonist who freely hands out money to beggars and plans to overthrow the government in order to improve their lot to a poor con artist who suddenly realizes saving a noble family is her actual most important duty and a cop protagonist who had to suppress the urge to arrest old women reading tarot cards (but it's okay because he's actually a masked vigilante). like the mask of mirrors tries to have such an elaborate racial hierarchy and system of social injustice but it doesn't actually make any sense and it's incredibly frustrating bc it fails repeatedly to realistically and meaningfully comment on the world it creates while pretending it's so complex. mistborn aims a little lower intellectually (neither of them are near the realm of say, baru cormorant) but imo it actually has better politics (SO FAR) than MoM and is more successful as a result in both its goals and as an entertaining read