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Dec 15, 2009

Jon rated it:

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Dec 07, 2011

Anila rated it:

(Quick double heads-up: this is my 300th Goodreads book review! I think it's fantastic that such a milestone is on a book that I love as much as I love this one - which is scads and scads.
I would also like to give a quick shout-out here to all the wonderful people who have decided to follow my reviews. I've been meaning to say it for a while, but didn't get to it until now: you all are awesome and I really, really appreciate you. Thanks so much!)

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Dec 13, 2011

Cathy rated it:

Well, I'm a little overwhelmed by having finished this in the time between Senator McCain conceding and President-Elect Obama beginning his speech, so my emotions are running high and my coherence may not be up to par. Nevertheless I can easily report that this was a great book. I was focused on every word, even action scenes where I often skim though. The end held many surprises for me, which frankly surprises me because it so seldom happens. The book was fully satisfying in every way. The char More...

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Jan 20, 2009

Lori rated it:

I know this book gets solid 4 and 5s, and I'm not sure why I'm not one with the crowd here. I certainly liked Elantris and the first 2 Mistborn books tremendously, and am having trouble articulating why this one didn't send me, but it didn't. Not that 3 stars isn't a pretty affirmative rating from me, yet I didn't find myself rushing to read this (as opposed to being here on GR!) When I was reading I enjoyed it very much. I thought the ending was great, maybe everything leading up to it was a bi More...

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Oct 26, 2008

Sean rated it:

The last half of this book dragged terribly for me, and there were three or four false climaxes before the real climax happened, which I found annoying. The ending was extremely religious in a peculiarly Mormon way, which also irritated me. As it is, I am even more skeptical now of Sanderson's ability to credibly write the end of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.

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Sep 30, 2011

Benjamin rated it:

As I finish this trilogy, I feel like addressing this book on two levels: first, on its own strengths and weaknesses as a novel; and second, as the capstone of the series and as an exposition of the Mistborn world and mythology. I’ll start with the latter of the two.

The overwhelming impression I get from the Mistborn books is that they have been written by someone who is a fantasy fan first, a fantasy author second. A pedantic geek, if you will. And I mean all of this as the highest More...

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Dec 22, 2011

Erica (daydreamer) rated it:

This ‘review’ is not a review of the book, but more of my emotional journey through reading it and upon finishing. For those of you who have read the Mistborn trilogy, I think you can empathize with what I felt. For those of you who haven’t, I ask that you do yourself a favor, and feast upon these books. For they are truly the most amazing books I’ve ever read.

Before the end, I was going to write an absolutely glowing review full of caps lock and exclamations points and gifs and pic More...

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Mar 22, 2010

Kat rated it:

I'm extremely impressed with Brandon Sanderson's first fantasy trilogy. The entire story was carefully thought out, well-plotted, and well-paced. What impresses me most is that in this last installment, The Hero of Ages, there are plenty of wonderful surprises left. But these surprises aren't little add-ons that Sanderson lately thought up and decided to throw in just to keep up the interest and excitement. These are major pieces of the puzzle that have purposely been left for the characters (an More...

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Jan 09, 2009

Amy rated it:

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Dec 11, 2011

Jane rated it:

Forgive me for my review as it was well after 2am when I finished this seventeen hundred page long trilogy...

<spoiler>What the fuck, Brandon Sanderson?

How do you have two and a half books focusing on two characters and how they interact and grow with each other, to the half a book ending full of dei ex machina?

Why is it so important that Sazed of all people make an illogical leap of faith to turn into a god in the first place? What is up with your obsession wi More...

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Mar 28, 2011

Katya rated it:

Last September, I saw "The Last Empire" featured as book of the Issue of one of my birth nation's few fantasy and sci-fi magazines. The author of the article presented Brandon Sanderson as the guy who is best known for having been chosen to finish Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series. Now, as these things go, there was serious doubt as to whether Sanderson had it in him to live up to the task, and die hard fans of the series were afraid that it would never be on the same le More...

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Mar 27, 2009

C.S. rated it:

This series slowly lost its luster for me. By this book I was just reading to see what happened to Vin. I think that Sanderson is a pretty good write but I really felt that the series was two long. It should have been two books.

I think it would have been tighter and more plausible. The main characters continued the trend of doing things that i felt were not very smart.

I am sure that some people will not agree. If you were a big fan of book 2, you are safe. If not yo More...

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Jul 04, 2011

Erin rated it:

This has to be my favourite of the three Mistborn books, especially after the horrible ending of the second one, The Well of Ascension. While the times are troubled, there's a dark humour within the dialog that I really loved as well as a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. The ending is really beautifully done in this one- just gorgeous and the suspense of the ending was well maintained but yet distributed throughout the book so that the pacing felt wonderful. One of the things that I re More...

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Apr 16, 2010

Seth rated it:

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Oct 23, 2008

Erika rated it:

Arrrghh. I shouldn't have slept on this. Now everything I wanted to say is stuck in dreamland. But trust me, this one, was AWESOME.

When I first saw Elantris and read the jacket snippet, I was a little excited. I didn't know fantasy novels were allowed to be original. And to think that Brandon Sanderson could write two interesting magic systems in both his debut novel and his Mistborn trilogy speaks volumes of his ability as an innovative creative mind.

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Feb 23, 2009

Ashley rated it:

I'm thinking back and trying to remember if I've ever invested so much time into an individual group of characters. I spent 12 books with Garion, Polgara, and Belgarath, but they were easier, faster reads and of a very standard pattern. I spent 6 books with Sparhawk and crew, but like the Garion books, David Eddings stories all look the same after a while. Naturally, I stuck with Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, etc etc etc etc through The Lord of the Rings, but that's not really More...

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Feb 25, 2009

Andrea rated it:

You know how there's some series where the end just isn't very satisfying? You go through this great process where you uncover all sorts of cool plot, and it seems like it's leading towards something awesome, but then the end is just not everything you hoped for. You know, like the Matrix, or Breaking Dawn, or Alias, or the latest Indiana Jones movie. Great fun, but the endings seem rushed or cheap or obscure.

Well, I'm happy to report that the concluding novel to Brandon Sanderson's More...

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Oct 20, 2008

Amy rated it:

Oh wow. Just wow.

Sanderson did an amazing job of tying in the hints and questions from the first two books and fixing all the problems. But it was definitely an emotional trip. Sanderson has always pulled on my emotions throughout all of his books, but this one...well, let's just say I gasped, cried out "No!" and several other such reactions came out of my lips. The last...oh, hundred pages or so were impossible for me to stop until it was all over and fixed.

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Oct 26, 2008

Trip rated it:

(Third of the trilogy that started with The Final Empire (Mistborn) and The Well of Ascension (Mistborn).)

It's a Brandon Sanderson book, which means the protagonists save the world through discovery and deduction, not through purity of heart or vastness of magical powers (not that those aren't helpful). I think this series may in fact qualify as hard fantasy, and this book is a pretty good conclusion to the trilogy.

I hope Sanderson isn't distracted for too long by havi More...

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Nov 11, 2010

Arthur rated it:

The best book in the trilogy and a very good series.
Lots of twists and unpredictable moves. When you read it you don't feel as if you are consuming atium. The magic system is brilliant. Inventive and unusual. I love Vin. I think she is the best character I have come across in fantasy in the last 5 years. Guess I am still in love with her :blush:
The ending is apt and fitting. I am proud that it crossed my mind a few times who The Hero of Ages might be :)
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Aug 23, 2011

Daniele rated it:

Bellissimo finale di questa trilogia che mi ha sorpreso dall'inizio alla fine. Non tanto per i colpi di scena i quali vengono sempre anticipati da piccoli indizi sparsi qua e la in tutti e tre i libri, ma per un mondo ed un modo di vedere gli avvenimenti accaduti diverso dai soliti fantasy.

Anche per il classico concetto dell'equilibrio, senza il quale tutto è destinato a morire, al quale viene associata la continua contrapposizione fra azioni benigne e maligne, le quali non sono sempre così dis More...

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Mar 18, 2009

Shel added it

Sanderson, B. (2008). The Hero of Ages. New York: Tor Books.

0765316897

I first discovered Sanderson’s work through his children’s series, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. In those books, Sanderson describes himself as an author of thick fantasy tomes. I was excited to get my hands on one such heavy tome of thickness and heaviness.

As with Sanderson’s other books, the conclusion to the Mistborn series includes fast action, quirky lines and strong characters, More...

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Mar 10, 2009

Daniel rated it:

I was quite pleased with this final book in the Mistborn trilogy. Sanderson manages to pull together all the threads and conclude the novel in an extremely satisfying way, even if it may be a little tragic.

As this book delves deep into the metaphysical struggle that is occurring in the world of the Mistborn novels, it's easy to identify the influence of Mormonism in aspects of the book's internal theology, particularly the end of the book. I have to admit that for a small while I w More...

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Jan 23, 2009

Penelope rated it:

This is good...Oh, this is REAL good! The Hero of Ages proves to be the perfect ending to one of the greatest fantasy series I have read. That's not to say that we get a fairy-tale ending; no... Characters die in this book, and some pretty fantastic problems arise.

The book picks up roughly one year after the end of the second book. The mists have been staying out even in the daytime, and the ash mounts are emitting more and more ash. The people are being starved to death...or killed by More...

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Dec 16, 2008

Mandy rated it:

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Feb 05, 2012

Brad rated it:

9/18/10 - 9/25/10
Wow, an epic conclusion to an epic trilogy. Sanderson has cemented his status as one of my favorite authors--great story, great characters, great twists and turns (the last one is a doozy!), wow. He's done an excellent job of tying little things together from the first two books, and I liked it a lot. A lot, a lot.

I definitely would recommend this series to fans of fantasy novels, and probably even to people who aren't.

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Feb 06, 2012

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Jan 30, 2012

Kali rated it:

The last book in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series is mindblowing. A major problem for most authors who write a series on the scale that Sanderson has is that it is almost impossible to tie all of the loose ends in a way that makes sense. Too often, facts in later books of a series are different from early books for no logical reason. In the world of Mistborn, there is always a method to the mayhem that the characters see.

Part of the reason for this is that Sanderson is an exp More...

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Jan 28, 2012

Sian rated it:

Sanderson's trilogy comes to a huge climax in this book, and things you've noticed throughout the series suddenly slot into place. It ended even more spectacularly than it began - even my best theories about how it would end fell short.

Sanderson's writing style is very readable, and his characters really grew on me. The best part of his writing for me though is the way the story unfolds - never predictable, always exciting, always much more than I expected. Where some authors tend to More...

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Jan 16, 2012

Ruth rated it:

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