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The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

joshuapeck's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

catbrainerd's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

yabramd's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

blackberry_coulis's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I can't stand Elend and Vin's relationship. I find them insufferable together and I kinda wish he'd died. Lots of telling not showing about their 'love'. He's extremely dismissive of her all the time in a way that I find really annoying and patronizing. Zane's character was interesting, but I found his character more poorly written than most of the other characters we've been introduced to. And Vin thought she loved him? What? I didn't find it super believable how perfectly he manipulated Vin and Straff, considering how smart/crafty/powerful they're both supposed to be. I didn't like the reveal of who had actually been poisoning. Straff either it felt too obvious. I'm assuming we'll circle back to why he had a metal spike in him, but I found it odd that that was never touched on. I liked the concept of the kandra and how their power works. I also really liked the mind control aspect with both the kandra and the koloss. Again, I didn't like the reveal of OreSeur. It felt like a bit of a cheap, low effort reveal to me. I also thought it was very silly that she hadn't thought to look for metal to lead to secret hidey holes for an entire freaking year before they finally found the Well, when literally every powerful thing in this world is metal. I don't understand why this metal is so supremely powerful compared to all of the other metals because all of the other medals have very reasonably sized powers except for this one. I also really didn't like Dockson's continued bigotry about the noblemen. It felt out of character for him and his turn right before his death also felt quite cheap and unearned. I don't understand why the creature can change things in the metalminds of a keeper but not the plaque. I'm hoping book 3 will make me enjoy this more in retrospect, but a lot of this book felt slow while watching characters that I previously liked made worse by their interactions with each other, being very distracted from obvious things by their infatuation, while setting up bigger things.

jonjyn's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

cheesestringy's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

giorginav's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective relaxing tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

flabbyabby's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Very slow in comparison to The Final Empire, but the last 100 pages were exciting and fast paced. I struggle with the characterisation of Vin at times.

ecdereus's review against another edition

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4.0

Hoewel iets minder sterk dan het eerste deel, heb ik toch erg genoten van dit vervolg, dat hoofdzakelijk draait om de belegering en verdediging van Luthadel, de hoofdstad van de Midden-Domeinen, waar de jonge koning Elend Ventra met zijn geliefde Vin - een krachtig Nevelmens - en de voormalige bendeleden van Kell uit alle macht proberen de stad te behouden en de burgers te beschermen tegen de intredende winterkoude en honger.
De hoofdpersonages worden verder uitgediept en sommigen maken een interessante persoonlijke groei door.
Een dikke 4 sterren.

rosessmarie's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0