Over on Tor.com, Weber talks about the cover:
At one point she is named “beautiful destroyer,” and I think in many ways that is exactly what I was trying to convey when I painted her. I rolled that phrase around in my head a lot while working on this. Although I’ll never be able to make one picture capable of encompassing everything I love about this series, I’m pleased that I was given the opportunity to express a mood and atmosphere that does my vision of the story justice.
Lovely. Captures all the mood of the trilogy and, in a rare instance, Weber actually seems to have depicted a version of a main character that’s close to the one in my head. It’s simple, but manages to evoke all the best aspects of the series (read: not the ballroom scenes). Very reminiscent of Weber’s equally accomplished cover for the eBook edition of The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan.
I love this cover art – mysterious, graceful… I’ve only read the first book in the series but this cover alone makes me really want to move on to the second quickly.
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I’ve been toying with the idea of reading the Mistborn trilogy. This cover are seals it.
I don’t normally like the cloaked figure type covers but this is pretty gorgeous
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