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Mistborn Trilogy (Mistborn, #1-3)
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Jul 07, 2011
Recommended for:
no one for the whole trilogy. most people for the 1st book.
** spoiler alert **
First book--really good! Read it in a day or two. Couldn't put it down!
Second book--well, not as good. Uses "maladroit" way too many times (or was that book 1?) Apparently badass heroine from book 1 got together with the underdeveloped nobleman love interest from book 1. Well, OK. But why do you keep telling me "Oh he's so good, he's a good person, he's the best" instead of, you know, showing that. But whatever. And then the end, well, the part with Ruin was OK but the whole making Elend an allomancer? Stupid. Also stupid was the love plot, wherein both Vin and Elend were convinced that they weren't good enough for the other. YAWN.
Third book--Did I say stupid? I meant, completely makes no sense and ruins the dynamic. It was AWESOME that the badass heroine could do something that the hero couldn't do. But then you make him go and be even stronger? WTF? Can't have the man be the weak one, ho ho ho, never mind that he was already a king on his way to becoming emperor! And then I had to slog through oh-so-many pages of Sazed being depressed (look, if I want to read a book about depression, I'll read The Bell Jar. Don't need it in my fantasy). Plus, the snippets at the beginning of each chapter gave away major plot points before they happened. robbing them of their effect! HELLO, SPOILERS? Also most of the plot was really predictable, until it dissolved into this weird theological battle thing. Don't really know what was going on there. And then Vin becomes a god? But she dies. So Sazed becomes god? And he wrote the LOL SPOILERS snippets? Sheer WTFery. And then suddenly Spook gets the girl (who has no personality as far as I can tell) and gets to be Mistborn, just because? Um. Wha? Also the book was really sloppily written, and there were all kinds of characters who knew things that they shouldn't have known based on their tech levels at the time. Really? You're calling a man who can't use his legs a paraplegic? I feel like I deserve a medal for finishing this damn thing.
If I was rating these individually, I'd give 5 stars to Mistborrn, 3-4 stars to The Well of Ascension, and 1 star to The Hero of Ages.
PS this should count as 3 books for my challenge.
Second book--well, not as good. Uses "maladroit" way too many times (or was that book 1?) Apparently badass heroine from book 1 got together with the underdeveloped nobleman love interest from book 1. Well, OK. But why do you keep telling me "Oh he's so good, he's a good person, he's the best" instead of, you know, showing that. But whatever. And then the end, well, the part with Ruin was OK but the whole making Elend an allomancer? Stupid. Also stupid was the love plot, wherein both Vin and Elend were convinced that they weren't good enough for the other. YAWN.
Third book--Did I say stupid? I meant, completely makes no sense and ruins the dynamic. It was AWESOME that the badass heroine could do something that the hero couldn't do. But then you make him go and be even stronger? WTF? Can't have the man be the weak one, ho ho ho, never mind that he was already a king on his way to becoming emperor! And then I had to slog through oh-so-many pages of Sazed being depressed (look, if I want to read a book about depression, I'll read The Bell Jar. Don't need it in my fantasy). Plus, the snippets at the beginning of each chapter gave away major plot points before they happened. robbing them of their effect! HELLO, SPOILERS? Also most of the plot was really predictable, until it dissolved into this weird theological battle thing. Don't really know what was going on there. And then Vin becomes a god? But she dies. So Sazed becomes god? And he wrote the LOL SPOILERS snippets? Sheer WTFery. And then suddenly Spook gets the girl (who has no personality as far as I can tell) and gets to be Mistborn, just because? Um. Wha? Also the book was really sloppily written, and there were all kinds of characters who knew things that they shouldn't have known based on their tech levels at the time. Really? You're calling a man who can't use his legs a paraplegic? I feel like I deserve a medal for finishing this damn thing.
If I was rating these individually, I'd give 5 stars to Mistborrn, 3-4 stars to The Well of Ascension, and 1 star to The Hero of Ages.
PS this should count as 3 books for my challenge.
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Leif wrote: "Mark this for spoilers."Thanks, Leif, I just did and must've been so aggravated I forgot.
I feel the need to point out that "paraplegic" is not a hi-tech or out of place word, it's just another word for paralized. Both words come from ancient Greek and mean roughly the same thing.
