Well of Ascension, good, but not very uplifting.

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson


My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this second in the Mistborn series, but had some difficulty with a few issues. The characters are so repeatedly and predictably thwarted at every turn throughout the book that it starts to become commonplace. No plan works, no idea helps, and in the end… well, minor spoiler here… that theme continues. The theme of the book comes off as so negative, such a downer at times, that I felt like "What's going to...