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While the novel felt light on any actual plot (it's a bridge book, after all), I enjoyed it even more than the first book because I actually got to start caring about the characters. The first book did a good job taking all these familiar tropes and making them do something fun, but they still felt one-dimensional to me. This book did a good job fleshing them out and making them feel more like people. Breeze has risen and rapidly become my favorite character in the Brandon Sanderson universe.

I'm going to have to go with [...] Ray's review of Sanderson's last Stormlight book though, that Sanderson seems to get fairly formulaic in his plotting. I don't see that as a bad thing since knowing what's going to happen doesn't necessarily ruin my personal enjoyment of a story, but the way he's setting up his events all feels very similar. While I'm enjoying Mistborn and Stormlight, I doubt I'll pick up anything else from his universe. I don't feel I'll gain anything new.


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The Well of Ascension Mistborn Book 2 Brandon Sanderson 9780765316882 Books Reviews

-- “A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”

This is what I think the central theme to the entire book is. All of the characters are stumbling through their new positions and lives in a new world without the Lord Ruler. After being repressed for so long each member of Kelsier’s remaining crew and Elend the new King are trying to build a better country. That in itself is hard enough but a new challenge arises when Lord Straff besieges the city in hopes of ousting his son Elend.

The Well of Ascension is more of a political intrigue than Mistborn was. It is a lot harder to build up a new nation than it is to tear one down. The shift is noticeable in the pacing and although this moves along a little slower and there is less action than in Mistborn it sets up nicely. It takes a sometime for some of our characters to really grow into their roles. This is more of a thinking book than the first in the series. Elend is King, but he is struggling with the balance of power and remaining true to himself. He has great ideas but the execution of them is not going as well as he would like.

-- “A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”

Elend must learn how to be a King and all the books in the world are not going to help him with that. Vin is a Mistborn but she is struggling with her place in the Kingdom. She has a strange religious following since she is the closest thing The Survivor’s had to an heir. She is also seeing strange shadow in the Mist and there is another Mistborn who makes her question her role to the city and to Elend. Vin is a little lost without Kelsier, he was the closest thing to family she had and now he is gone too. The broken little girl inside her still is not sure how to trust and she has a hard time believing in herself. She and Elend are in love but Vin doesn’t trust it and is sure he deserves better. They both needed this book to grow into their respective roles. Even though I got a little frustrated with them at times I understand where both came from and how both needed to grow and trust themselves before the relationship between them could become stronger. Good thing Sazed is there to be the philosophical voice of reason when we need it.

-- “At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”

I again loved all the side characters. Sazed is always a favorite but Oresuer also took the spotlight away and I loved learning more about the Kandra and enjoyed the budding friendship between he and Vin. Breeze was wonderful, he is such a breath of fresh air whenever he is on the page and his PoVs were enlightening. Straff is a wonderful bad guy and I wanted him dead most of the time which = great villain. There were some betrayals I saw coming and others I didn’t. Sanderson does always do such a good job of keeping me guessing. Even when one thing goes right others go completely wrong and it all gets deliciously messy at times.

Just because there wasn’t as much action as in Mistborn doesn’t mean it wasn’t just as interesting. There was more magic to learn about and in true Sanderson fashion the last 20% is just packed full of suspense and action. The feelings I had were so intense. Not everyone lives, the spy was not who I thought it was and the Well of Ascension, that was a complete surprise. I totally enjoy the world and characters built here and can’t wait to see how it all works out.

I love that Sanderson has a way of telling a great story with fantastic characters and even when you are sure you know what will happen next….you are blissfully wrong and the story is all the better for it. It is a great achievement for any author, which is why he is one of my favorites.
Twice as depressing as Book One; unfinishable. (Spoiler Free)

Elend's leadership is constantly undermined by his well-meaning naivete, but the "consequences" never stop hitting - even after the man learns his lesson! While it's possibly realistic for past mistakes to keep biting someone in the rear, it gets narratively frustrating to read the same bad result repeat over...and over.

The Watcher is written inconsistently, but we're supposed to forgive it because he's "mad". Insane people may be volatile, outwardly unpredictable - but internally they follow their own rationale. But the 180's he pulls are never fully explained.

Everyone (thieving band) is "doomed", but it's somehow more depressing. (First page of the book "spoiler" ahead.) An army of men is at the town's doorstep, and things keep getting worse. Somehow, the original thieving band who survived the last book's impossible odds "knows" THIS book's impossible odds are somehow truly the end. Last book they were inspired by the boldness of their own defiance. But now they're so solemn it's barely tolerable to read.

There's a delicate balance between a "dark" story, and apathy-inducing story. After so many chapters of our "heroes" pitying themselves, I was rooting FOR Elend's father to breech the gates and kill them all. Anything to stop the angst.
While the novel felt light on any actual plot (it's a bridge book, after all), I enjoyed it even more than the first book because I actually got to start caring about the characters. The first book did a good job taking all these familiar tropes and making them do something fun, but they still felt one-dimensional to me. This book did a good job fleshing them out and making them feel more like people. Breeze has risen and rapidly become my favorite character in the Brandon Sanderson universe.

I'm going to have to go with [...] Ray's review of Sanderson's last Stormlight book though, that Sanderson seems to get fairly formulaic in his plotting. I don't see that as a bad thing since knowing what's going to happen doesn't necessarily ruin my personal enjoyment of a story, but the way he's setting up his events all feels very similar. While I'm enjoying Mistborn and Stormlight, I doubt I'll pick up anything else from his universe. I don't feel I'll gain anything new.