A few months back we brought you the news that Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy had some pretty awesome new covers made up for its Brazilian release this year. Well, with the recent success of the young adult series The Hunger Games and movie-goers picking up books that they feel may give them a similar experience, it seems the publishers over at Tor have seen an opportunity to market Sanderson’s Mistborn series to them and commissioned artist Sam Weber to create some covers for that particular audience.
Certainly, I feel it is a good fit. Sanderson’s protagonist, Vin, isn’t a million miles off Katniss (the girl in the cover even looks somewhat like her). Both lack strength and confidence, but go on to be pivotal parts of a team. Both are set in dystopian worlds and share that ‘against all odds’ theme. And, importantly in a YA, both feature that will they, won’t they romance that is filled with complication and uncertainty. Where they differ is that Sanderson’s books seem a more logical path for a reader to follow towards epic fantasy such as Lord of the Rings or The Way of Kings, for example. It has a Dark Overlord, it has Magic Systems, Politics, Religion, History and much, much more. As an advocate of epic fantasy, I say that if we can encourage younger readers to give epic fantasy a go and set them on a path towards our genre then lets do it!
Here are the covers:
Let us know what you think 🙂
