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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

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Well, I was hoping I would like this more this time, knowing how it ended, but it was about the same experience for me. A bit sloggy up until the last third of it, at which point it really picked up. I know what he was going for here, turning a tired fantasy premise on its head like he did with the first one*, but the nature of that premise and the world and characters he built for himself just made it not a very […]

Never doubt Brandon Sanderson

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

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(This is a review for the second part of a series. There will be spoilers for prior installments.) I enjoyed the first book in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series, but I walked away from it feeling that I had missed the boat on fully enjoying the series. If I had read it during my peak epic fantasy years (late teens), I think I would’ve gotten more out of it. narfna didn’t think that age, generally, was an impediment to the enjoyment of this series. After reading […]

Hero of Ages? Enrique Iglesias is SHOOK

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Including: Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages A back-to-back read through of the three novels in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy (as a part of a bigger series and world created by the author). This trilogy presents a world with many of the seeming aspects of what would be considered “high fantasy”, but without as much of the convolution and excessiveness what sometimes comes with those types of epics. That is not to say that there aren’t many characters (there are, but […]

More Than Just Fantasy Tropes

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 I promised myself last year that I would finish a few of many, MANY series I’m currently in the middle of before I start something new, so most of my reviews may not be very helpful to people that haven’t yet started a particular series.  This is one of those times. I also won’t bore you with my simplistic summary of Sanderson’s world created in the Mistborn series; Sanderson created such a unique and well-crafted place that I can’t do justice to it in a […]

On Siegecraft, Skaa, and Badass Brunettes

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There’s something about watching a fantasy series really hit its stride. No matter how good an initial entry in a series is, there’s always a fair bit of expositional license-plate-making that has to be taken care of, thus there’s always room for growth, for the author to take everything cool about the series and turn it up to eleven. A Storm of Swords immediately springs to mind, as do The Two Towers and Memories of Ice. And now, so too does The Well of Ascension, […]



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