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elzbethmrgn's Reviews (667)
I grabbed this based on many positive reviews from the people that I follow on Goodreads and previous experience of Sanderson's writing with the Stormlight Archive. And I was not disappointed.
Ok, I was, a little. Kelsier feels a little like the first release candidate of Kaladin. There is only really one chick, who admittedly kicks all the arse and takes all the names, but still. The part where I was most disappointed was the lore. Maybe I expect too much, having read the Stormlight Archive books first, but the only real sense I got of the history of the world was with Sazid's religions. Which I loved. It's been mentioned to me that more lore happens in the next two books, so I'm looking forward to that.
Other parts that I liked:the gathering of 'philospoher' nobles were just all talk and not impotently planning a revolution. I kept waiting for Vin's brother to show up and wreck all the plans, and was pleasantly surprised how that turned out. I was pleased it didn't end up being a heist movie plot in the end, because it was looking that way for a good chunk of the book (I didn't actually expect it to continue being a heist movie, I was just curious to see how Sanderson would steer away from it once he'd set it up). The identity of the Lord Ruler. And of course the way in which Kelsier finally gets the skaa rebellion happening.
And, of course, there are more questions raised than answered by the end - the best part of that being that the next two books are already written and I don't have to wait around for years to find out the answers.
Ok, I was, a little. Kelsier feels a little like the first release candidate of Kaladin. There is only really one chick, who admittedly kicks all the arse and takes all the names, but still. The part where I was most disappointed was the lore. Maybe I expect too much, having read the Stormlight Archive books first, but the only real sense I got of the history of the world was with Sazid's religions. Which I loved. It's been mentioned to me that more lore happens in the next two books, so I'm looking forward to that.
Other parts that I liked:
And, of course, there are more questions raised than answered by the end - the best part of that being that the next two books are already written and I don't have to wait around for years to find out the answers.
A comprehensive and thoroughly readable account of the attack on the Templars by Philip IV of France, the possible and probably underlying motivations, examination and analysis of the trials in France, England, Aragon, Castile and Cyprus, and concluding with a discussion of the historiography surrounding the subject.
Earns its reputation as the most thorough account of the Templar trials.
Earns its reputation as the most thorough account of the Templar trials.
Noo I lost my whole review. Fuck it.
Welp, the last quarter of this book fucking rocked, but I don't know if that makes up for the boring rest of it (and I actually enjoyed [b:The Well of Ascension|12968706|The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)|Brandon Sanderson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1335809883s/12968706.jpg|2120474]). I didn't care about Vin, or Eland, or anyone much apart from Sazed and TenSoon.And all TenSoon really gets to do is take Sazed to the Kandra and then get himself killed?! The stuff with Ruin felt all a bit Buffy season 7 with the First Evil appearing to everyone as dead people.
Was this crappyness intentional to make the parts of the end less dramatic?Because I really gave no shits about Vin/Preservation and Elend's death .
But, some parts were awesome. The parts where none of the amazing worldbuilding and plot stuff were really obvious until the last(the mist, 16, Vin's earring) was fantastic.
And, obviously, Fuck Yes Sazed. He pwned the whole trilogy. I literally fistpumped. And then cried.
Welp, the last quarter of this book fucking rocked, but I don't know if that makes up for the boring rest of it (and I actually enjoyed [b:The Well of Ascension|12968706|The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)|Brandon Sanderson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1335809883s/12968706.jpg|2120474]). I didn't care about Vin, or Eland, or anyone much apart from Sazed and TenSoon.
Was this crappyness intentional to make the parts of the end less dramatic?
But, some parts were awesome. The parts where none of the amazing worldbuilding and plot stuff were really obvious until the last
And, obviously, Fuck Yes Sazed. He pwned the whole trilogy. I literally fistpumped. And then cried.
Well I can see why some of the reviews on this book were not as effusive as for [b:Mistborn: The Final Empire|12968705|Mistborn The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)|Brandon Sanderson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1400264919s/12968705.jpg|66322]. Despite some siege warfare and a little bit of politicking, nothing really happened. A desperate attempt at a YA love-triangle was quickly dealt with, thank goodness.
But the parts that happened in between that, the history and lore and religion and scholars doing their scholarly thing and the what-happens-after-the-happily-ever-after was, for me, fantastic. My kind of story.
And the end, spoiler-free, frankly scared the crap out me as a historian relying entirely on written material. LOVE.
But the parts that happened in between that, the history and lore and religion and scholars doing their scholarly thing and the what-happens-after-the-happily-ever-after was, for me, fantastic. My kind of story.
And the end, spoiler-free, frankly scared the crap out me as a historian relying entirely on written material. LOVE.
I liked this book in much the same way that I liked [b:Daughter of Smoke and Bone|13600168|Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)|Laini Taylor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1334320707s/13600168.jpg|13355552]: pretty places and pretty words held together with some enjoyable characters and (of course) solid YA Feels.
