--- product_id: 83297599 title: "Mistborn Secret History" price: "$36.81" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/83297599-mistborn-secret-history store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Mistborn Secret History **Price:** $36.81 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mistborn Secret History - **How much does it cost?** $36.81 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/83297599-mistborn-secret-history) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Mistborn: Secret History is a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn (The Final Empire), The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages. It also contains very minor spoilers for the book The Bands of Mourning. Mistborn: Secret History builds upon the characterization, events, and worldbuilding of the original trilogy. Reading it without that background will be a confusing process at best. In short, this isn't the place to start your journey into Mistborn (though if you have read the trilogy - but it has been a while - you should be just fine, so long as you remember the characters and the general plot of the books). Saying anything more here risks revealing too much. Even knowledge of this story's existence is, in a way, a spoiler. There's always another secret. Review: Fans of the Mistborn Trilogy will love this Novella! - SPOILER WARNING: Just reading this review will spoil major events of the original Mistborn Trilogy. If you haven't read those amazing books, stop reading this review, buy them, and discover the awe-inspiring world of Scadriel that Brandon has created. I am really serious. This review will totally spoil and ruin those books. Last chance... Okay, here we go. This novella came out of nowhere for me. I hadn't heard it was coming out (of course, I am not the best at staying current on books). I knew Bands of Mourning was coming out and I was shocked when I got to the end there was a note from Brandon revealing the existence of the untold story of the original Mistborn series. That's not surprising. If you've read the trilogy there were hints of stuff going on behind the metaphysical scenes. This story lays it out. What happened after Kelsier died? Well, first off he punched god. And by god, I mean Preservation, one of the Shards of Adolnasium that inhabits Scadriel. In dying, Kelsier discovers an entirely new world. He learns just how small Scadriel is in the process, and he works behind the scenes to ensure that our heroes victory at the end of the series against Ruin can happen. There were hints, but to see it laid out was exciting and emotional. To get to see Kelsier struggle to help his friends from beyond the grave was poignant. He is the Survivor, and he never gave up. This Novella shed light on a lot of the strange events that happened and even gave new context to things I thought I had understood (like the first time Preservation tried to stab Elend or why Vin avoided talking to Hoid). This book also did more to shed light on the greater Cosmere than any previous published story. The curtain has been pulled back, and we are getting glimpses of the larger universe that has better things to do then worry about one little planet. I drank this book up. It was wonderful to see all the characters one last time, to have one more chance to say goodbye to them. Fans of the Cosmere, this novella is a must read. Review: Absolutely loved learning more about Kelsier and SECRET HISTORY - MISTBORN: SECRET HISTORY was incredibly mind-blowing. I can’t really say TOO much about it because it’s incredibly spoilery for those who haven’t read MISTBORN yet or even those who haven’t finished THE BANDS OF MOURNING yet. This short story takes place just after the rush of events as MISTBORN is ending and continues to span throughout the rest of the original trilogy, setting things up for the Wax & Wayne era. Sanderson’s world building is astounding. I love that he’s been compiling this story little by little as he’s been writing the series and finally shared it in this novella. I agree that it may have been too much to mix in with the series chronologically and I was happy to read this all from one POV! Honestly? I got a tad lost in the middle. Well, not lost but I just have a hard time adapting to new ideas/places/people without enough anchors to hold me to an original character/story. Maybe I’m just not well-versed enough in the Cosmere? But I was having a bit of a hard time wrapping my brain around some of the sections in the middle just because we’re dealing with such higher forces (without giving any spoilers away) and a nearly new concept which I would have loved to spend more time with! Could be that these things/concepts/whatever also appear in other Sanderson books that I just haven’t read yet and that’s why I’m not picking up on it as much! Truly, the things you find out in this short story are so amazingly fantastical that I actually want to re-read the whole series and have MISTBORN: SECRET HISTORY in hand so I can read them on the same timelines. I also want to go back and read sections of this again so I can really grasp what’s going on. Some things did seem to be tied to other books set in the Cosmere so I really need to read those soon!! There were some amazing moments between original Mistborn characters that just totally warmed my heart and really put a happy ending on everything. I loved tiny glances at different POVs (especially Kelsier’s) as scenes from the endings of MISTBORN, THE WELL OF ASCENSION, and THE HERO OF AGES appear in the novella. I loved seeing some of my favorite characters and getting even more answers as to what happened to them and exactly how things played out since we get a different perspective here. Always a joy to read, some MIND-BLOWING knowledge that has me dying to pick up more books (not like that was an issue anyway. I already have reads planned out!), but now I can’t believe how long I’ll have to wait for new Mistborn books! AHHH! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,138,369 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #456 in Epic Fantasy (Books) #2,901 in Contemporary Fantasy (Books) #7,011 in Literature & Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 14,609 Reviews | ## Images ![Mistborn Secret History - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81dF4qcsqNL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fans of the Mistborn Trilogy will love this Novella! *by R***S on February 5, 2016* SPOILER WARNING: Just reading this review will spoil major events of the original Mistborn Trilogy. If you haven't read those amazing books, stop reading this review, buy them, and discover the awe-inspiring world of Scadriel that Brandon has created. I am really serious. This review will totally spoil and ruin those books. Last chance... Okay, here we go. This novella came out of nowhere for me. I hadn't heard it was coming out (of course, I am not the best at staying current on books). I knew Bands of Mourning was coming out and I was shocked when I got to the end there was a note from Brandon revealing the existence of the untold story of the original Mistborn series. That's not surprising. If you've read the trilogy there were hints of stuff going on behind the metaphysical scenes. This story lays it out. What happened after Kelsier died? Well, first off he punched god. And by god, I mean Preservation, one of the Shards of Adolnasium that inhabits Scadriel. In dying, Kelsier discovers an entirely new world. He learns just how small Scadriel is in the process, and he works behind the scenes to ensure that our heroes victory at the end of the series against Ruin can happen. There were hints, but to see it laid out was exciting and emotional. To get to see Kelsier struggle to help his friends from beyond the grave was poignant. He is the Survivor, and he never gave up. This Novella shed light on a lot of the strange events that happened and even gave new context to things I thought I had understood (like the first time Preservation tried to stab Elend or why Vin avoided talking to Hoid). This book also did more to shed light on the greater Cosmere than any previous published story. The curtain has been pulled back, and we are getting glimpses of the larger universe that has better things to do then worry about one little planet. I drank this book up. It was wonderful to see all the characters one last time, to have one more chance to say goodbye to them. Fans of the Cosmere, this novella is a must read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely loved learning more about Kelsier and SECRET HISTORY *by B***Y on March 23, 2016* MISTBORN: SECRET HISTORY was incredibly mind-blowing. I can’t really say TOO much about it because it’s incredibly spoilery for those who haven’t read MISTBORN yet or even those who haven’t finished THE BANDS OF MOURNING yet. This short story takes place just after the rush of events as MISTBORN is ending and continues to span throughout the rest of the original trilogy, setting things up for the Wax & Wayne era. Sanderson’s world building is astounding. I love that he’s been compiling this story little by little as he’s been writing the series and finally shared it in this novella. I agree that it may have been too much to mix in with the series chronologically and I was happy to read this all from one POV! Honestly? I got a tad lost in the middle. Well, not lost but I just have a hard time adapting to new ideas/places/people without enough anchors to hold me to an original character/story. Maybe I’m just not well-versed enough in the Cosmere? But I was having a bit of a hard time wrapping my brain around some of the sections in the middle just because we’re dealing with such higher forces (without giving any spoilers away) and a nearly new concept which I would have loved to spend more time with! Could be that these things/concepts/whatever also appear in other Sanderson books that I just haven’t read yet and that’s why I’m not picking up on it as much! Truly, the things you find out in this short story are so amazingly fantastical that I actually want to re-read the whole series and have MISTBORN: SECRET HISTORY in hand so I can read them on the same timelines. I also want to go back and read sections of this again so I can really grasp what’s going on. Some things did seem to be tied to other books set in the Cosmere so I really need to read those soon!! There were some amazing moments between original Mistborn characters that just totally warmed my heart and really put a happy ending on everything. I loved tiny glances at different POVs (especially Kelsier’s) as scenes from the endings of MISTBORN, THE WELL OF ASCENSION, and THE HERO OF AGES appear in the novella. I loved seeing some of my favorite characters and getting even more answers as to what happened to them and exactly how things played out since we get a different perspective here. Always a joy to read, some MIND-BLOWING knowledge that has me dying to pick up more books (not like that was an issue anyway. I already have reads planned out!), but now I can’t believe how long I’ll have to wait for new Mistborn books! AHHH! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ There's always another secret. *by B***D on October 16, 2022* 2022-10-16: There's always another secret, and in this little surprise novella from 2016, many are revealed. Unanswered questions have surrounded Kelsier from the very first moment he appeared in Mistborn: Final Empire, and if you, like me, have had those questions nagging at you since your first reading of this book, then you should read Secret History. It's an extremely fun exploration of Kelsier's character that recontextualizes the original Mistborn trilogy and that, at the time of its release (and maybe even still), was so meta within the cosmere that it felt like a cipher of some sorts. The type of release the cosmere nerd salivates over. And what's more, it's just a lot fun. Required reading? I'm inclined to say yes. 2016-02-03: This covertly released novella was a treat after reading The Bands of Mourning. If there are any other Mistborn fans out there like me, who loved the first trilogy, and enjoy the Wax and Wayne books but think they are missing that old flavor of the first.. pick this one up. It has the feeling of the original trilogy, and a whole heaping pile of Cosmere goodies throughout. Excellent addition to the Mistborn world. ## Frequently Bought Together - Mistborn Secret History - Wax and Wayne, The Mistborn Saga Boxed Set: Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, Bands of Mourning, and The Lost Metal - Dawnshard: From The Stormlight Archive --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/83297599-mistborn-secret-history](https://www.desertcart.us/products/83297599-mistborn-secret-history) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-09-22*