The Alloy of Law is the sequel to the popular Mistborn Trilogy. It isn't a direct sequel, since it happens three hundred years after the events of The Hero of Ages, so don't get confused.
The book is about nobleman Waxillium Ladrian, a descendant of Breeze from the original trilogy, who returns to the city of Elendel after spending twenty years as a lawman out in the Roughs, the Mistborn equivalent of the west. He is forced to become the head of his house after the death of his uncle and put away his guns. But he begins to follow the stories of a gang that has been stealing entire railroad cars, and when his fiancee is kidnapped, he must track them down to get her back.
This book is a lot like a combination of the original trilogy with Sherlock Holmes with a couple of John Wayne movies thrown in there. The Allomancer shootouts are awesome, and the verbal sparring between Wax and his sidekick Wayne is funny.
There were several complaints about this book, the biggest being that this was supposed to be a standalone but left us with a cliffhanger. I will admit that this bugged me, but it didn't subtract from my opinion of the book.
The biggest flaw in this novel is that the villain is a little cliche. This is very unusual of Brandon Sanderson, who has always given us solid, realistic characters in the past. But remember that this was originally going to be a short story that turned into a novel. I like to think of it as Brandon Sanderson goofing off for a little while in his universe before beginning work on the final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light. It wasn't really a serious novel, just something to keep us occupied for a little while.
On the whole, I thought it was pretty good. Kind of like a movie in a popular series that wasn't as good as the others but still entertaining.
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