The Hero of Ages- Brandon Sanderson

Book 11 of My Summer Reading Challenge

My rating: 5/5 stars

I have no idea where to start with this, I have just finished the last book in this amazing series and I am utterly speechless. That was an amazing ending.

Lets start with the fact that these book covers are so beautiful!

In book 2, I felt so sorry for Zane and I wanted to know more about him and how he thought he was insane and it was revealed that he wasn't in the end. Now that I know he was being controlled through the whole thing I understand why he did what he did and it makes me love him so much more and then I get sad that he died. So vicious.

When  it was revealed in the Final Empire that Reen had died trying to protect Vin, I never believed that he was dead and I just hoped that he would always show up and save the day because I thought he was so kind for protecting Vin all those years even though she thought he hated her. When Ruin showed up as Reen I got so excited that he was back. Until I realised it wasn't him. This was the same reaction I had when Kelsier showed up to Spook. I should know by now not to trust books.

Throughout this whole series, I have loved Sazed. I always thought that he would have a larger part to play in this than just being a keeper and thank god he turned out to be The Hero of Ages. He will be a great god.

Marsh. I loved Marsh in the first book, and then in the second book I hated him for betraying them and helping Ruin. And now I love him again. I know he still tried to kill them all but that was down to him being controlled by Ruin so I think that I can forgive him for that. At the times which he was of his own mind he did want to kill himself though to protect the world so Ruin wouldn't take control.

I will never forgive Sanderson for killing Elend. Vin I can live with. But not Elend.

Anyone else getting a Game of Thrones vibe with the amount of deaths?

Lord Ruler! This was a great series! Definitely will be investing in finding some more!

The Well of Ascension- Brandon Sanderson

Book 9 of My Summer Reading Challenge

My rating: 5/5 stars

Normally in a trilogy, I am faced with a boring second book which is added to fill up the story which can be kept going so that it sets up the third book for a wild ride. I did not get that with this book. I absolutely loved the story of the first book and I was not disappointed at all with how this book played out. My emotions went through a up and down ride as I read this story and there were so many events which I didn't see coming and were a complete shock.

This is a brilliant example of a book which you pick up and you never want to put it down. Every spare moment I had was taken up by the adventures of Vin and the gang and when I was not captivated in this world, I was wishing that I was.

I still miss Kelsier, this book just felt weird without his presence. All the time, I was just wishing that he would pop up and save the day to tell them all where they were going wrong and how to put it straight again.

Throughout this book, I just kept wondering "Where the hell is Marsh?" he just vanished near the beginning and he never showed up until the end. he better have a good reason for doing what he did. Poor Sazed.

I feel so sorry for Sazed. He has got to be one of my favourite characters in these books, he is just so sweet. How could Sanderson do that to him?! He finally manages to get someone whom he loves and they are happy and they he rips her away from him! It made me so angry and sad at the same time.

I was really starting to like OreSeur as well, him and Vin were just getting a connection, and it turned out to be TenSoon! I suppose TenSoon also had a connection with Vin since it was him all along and in the end he helped her against Zane.

Zane, lets talk about Zane.

I don't know where to begin. I was starting to like Zane as a character! and then he dies. The thing that got to me the most was he thought that he was insane and the last thing that he hears from the 'God' in his head was that he wasn't insane at all and it left me with so many questions that were not answered BECAUSE HE IS DEAD! That really played with my emotions.

Now that I have finished this book, The Hero of Ages is calling me from my bedside desk, and I shall not delay before being sucked into the Mistborn world once more.

The Final Empire- Brandon Sanderson

Book 8 of My Summer Reading Challenge

My rating:  5/5 Stars

Honestly, this book took me a while to read, not due to the large size of the book but because I had other things to do and I originally had this book on the kindle which I find harder to read.

Anyhow, this book was even better than I was expecting! As soon as I got into this book towards the end, I ended up reading a large section of the book in one sitting as it kept me intrigued and I just couldn't put the book down.

Everything about this book was great, the storyline was so original and I have never read anything like this before. Even all of the character developments were well written through out of the book (Especially Ham, Breeze and Marsh who were probably my favourite characters). I really enjoyed learning about all of the different metals which the Mistborn were able to use and the abilities which they got from the metals.

Throughout the book, there were so many twists which I really wasn't expecting to happen which made me love this book even more as it left me with so many questions. Normally the endings of books can be predicted but I honestly was not expecting that.

I must admit that when Vin met Elend (Even thought I loved the characteristics of Elend with him being one of the nobles but not wanting to live like he was while all of the Skaa were suffering and the fact that he spent all of his time reading really appealed to me) I groaned. As soon as this happened I assumed that the whole book would be consumed by the fact that they would be in love and everything would go wrong because of their love for each other and that there would be a typical love triangle with Spook. I was really surprised that this book hardly revolved around the love between them and it was in the background.

I really was not expecting the death of Kelsier and when it happened I was expecting him to not be dead somehow and him to come back into the story to help with the killing of the Lord Ruler. However, I was pretty upset about finding that Marsh was dead and that was the death I thought would be final which obviously wasn't and was really surprised when he returned.

This is the first Brandon Sanderson book which I read, and I shall certainly be reading more, especially of this series. I have already borrowed the rest of these books and I really would recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of the fantasy books as this is one of the best fantasy books which I have read.