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The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

120 reviews

wharj's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Definitely takes a while to get going, but great stuff in here!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Violence

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Death of parent, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

quabbityash's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and War

Moderate: Violence

sophiafroehlich's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The creativity behind this world and magic system continues to keep me hooked, and I really never know what’s going to happen.

Vin and Elends relationship felt a little unrealistic to me, which made it hard to get all that invested.  I found myself rooting for them all the same.

This book felt slightly more plot driven than character driven, though the characters all had well developed arcs.  There was a bit of a lull in the middle of the book for me while we

waited around for the armies and focused on politics

but when it picks back up it PICKS BACK UP.

Zane’s character and his particular brand of insanity was riveting. His internal monologue sent a shiver down my spine but had me glued to the page. I also appreciated that despite his insanity it was clear that he was a  better person than his father. The juxtaposition of the two, often one right after the other, had me in my psychology bag.

 

My favorite relationship to watch grow was between Vin and OreSeur. It felt like it got the screen time it needed

and by subtle increments they came to trust each other as individuals.  Which is  why I was GAGGED when it turned out  OreSeur was the enemy Kadra. I still loved the moments of tenderness from both sides after the reveal of the betrayal and I sincerely hope the kadra comes back in book 3.

I spent the whole book guessing who the mole was, deciphering what was going on with the well of ascension, and theorizing over every mystery Brandon Sanderson gave us.  I’m happy to say I did not see anything coming. The whole end was an avalanche of plot twists that left me a withered husk of a human. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and War

peasandpancakes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad 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

Loved this book. Perfect amount of slower and faster chapters. I cannot wait to start the last book in this trilogy to find out what happens next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Drug use, Rape, Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Slavery

knittersteph's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

bel017's review against another edition

The casual sexism is exhausting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexism, Murder, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Gore, Stalking, War, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, and Adult/minor relationship

ctara2123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Death, War, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Rape, and Grief

Minor: Animal death

jayinbee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.25

I could hardly put it down. I am so glad I finally decided to read this series. I found the second installment of the Mistborn trilogy solid. Lots of politics and character development, new characters, a new metal, all sorts of good stuff. I had so many questions going into the ending few chapters that my head was spinning and several of them were resolved- some obviously will have to wait until I can get my hands on book 3. Lots of the storylines and plot points were very satisfying and while I knew that the whole band couldn't just happily skip through the series unscathed, I'm kind of bitter about some of the events (if I said any more then there would be spoilers) that happened in the climax of the book and other parts just left me devastated on behalf of the characters I've grown to love. The ending definitely left me wanting more and I'm excited to see how this part of the saga resolves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, and War

mrbookishlypleasant's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Gore

tilo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I am unsure if I have ever experienced a book like this one, where with every new chapter a new information is dropped that almost always completely twists one of the many exciting narratives. From the first page on, I was surprised and as it kept going I could not fathom all the plottwists coming. And none of them seemed over the top nor misplaced, as the world, its history and its characters, whom I am attached to deeply now, are so well construed that it read so fluently.
Not to mention, the amazing and captivating writing style!
Due to the ending, I am both extremely curious and mortified to find out what is waiting in Book Three.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Self harm, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Death, Stalking, Genocide, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Classism, Colonisation, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, War, and Slavery

Moderate: Infertility, Rape, Infidelity, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Sexism, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, and Racism

Minor: Sexism and Ableism

Mentions genital mutilation