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I'm about halfway through Bands of Mourning now, and so far it's a big improvement over Shadows of Self. Shadows just hit a lot of my "dislike" buttons: police procedural, early 20th century-ish setting, and strained action-banter dialogue, among other things. Wax was all angsty and tortured and Wayne had the "quirky" knob cranked to 11, and in general the characters seemed to go broader and flatter than in Alloy, rather than deeper.
Bands is more of a proper adventure, Wayne is dialed back, the characterization gets beyond the broad strokes, and they get out of Dodge... er, Elendel. Opening up the world and taking the politics beyond just Elendel gives this era of the Mistborn world more individual character, whereas in Shadows the setting came off as a generic sort of Gotham City much of the time.
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