Hello! My name is Kat and today I want to talk about The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
So The Well of Ascension is the second book in the Mistborn trilogy, and I can't really get into the plot
of this installment without spoiling the previous one. So if you're completely new to this trilogy and you don't know
what's going on here, then I did just do a booktalk for the first book in this series, so I'll link that below
Go watch that. I talk about the synopsis without spoilers. It'll fill you in.
For now, I'm just gonna say that I am loving this series so much more than, like, I ever thought possible
If the final book is anything like these first two books, then this is definitely going to be one of my favorite
series of all time. The characters are fantastic, and the world building is amazing, and then on top of
these fantastic characters and this amazing world, you have this mind-blowingly awesome story
that is just woven between everything and it's just--it's so good. It's so good. IT'S SO GOOD.
If you have not yet started this series, please. DO IT.
If you enjoy fantasy or really just great stories in general, and you have not yet picked up this series
then I really encourage you to do so, because it's fantastic.
And that is going to be it for the spoiler-free section of this video, so if you have not yet read this book,
then I really, again, encourage you to go do so, and then you can come back and watch the rest of this video
and witness me just dying over this book. 'Cause that's what's about to happen.
Okay. Go away non-spoilery people BYEEEEEE
Now going into this book, I was kind of under the impression that Brandon Sanderson had
used up his biggest, most shocking plot twists at the end of the first book
And it turns out... I could not have been more wrong.
This book blew my mind. On top of having my mind already blown by the first book, so like
as excited as I am to read the third book, which I will be doing, like, tonight. I'm also kind of terrified.
Because like, what else can he throw at us? I don't feel like I'm prepared. I don't feel like I can ever be prepared
but I'm gonna jump in and read that book anyways, because *incoherent noises of shock and awe*
Not only do we have these big shocking moments, but even on a smaller scale
there are so many amazing scenes. Like the action scenes, okay. Brandon Sanderson knows how to
write a great fight scene. Like that scene right at the beginning with Vin fighting all of the assassins
That was just cool! I also loved all of her sparring scenes with Zane. And her actual fight with Zane!
Even though that was, like, terrifying. It was still really cool.
And Vin saving Breeze when he was coming into the city--really just any scene where Vin gets to, like,
really use her Mistborn abilities, that is an awesome scene.
Now I read a lot, and I watch a lot of TV shows, and I study story structure, so I'm usually pretty good at
predicting where a story is gonna go.
In general! Not in specifically the case of these books. Like, they consistently shock me
and I love it so much. Even when I do accurately predict something, it never is very far in advance
Like in that scene where Zane was meeting with Vin and Elend as, like, Straff's messenger
Zane has this line, when he's talking to Elend, about how "you're his only son"
and I latched onto that, like, wait a minute. What if... WHAT IF... he's not!
What if... Zane is Elend's brother!?!?!
And I think I am so freakin clever, and I'm like oooh, this is gonna be great, there's gonna be a huge big reveal
later on. And then I, like, read 2 more pages and there it is. Confirmation. 
Not nearly as dramatic as I thought it was gonna be.
Okay, let's talk about Zane for a minute.
He was such an interesting character
I will admit that I did kind of ship him and Vin together for like a minute
Before we find out how crazy and manipulative he is
It was just the struggle that Vin was going through, like, she loves Elend, and I love her and Elend together
and I'll talk more about them being adorable and getting married in a second
But there was something so captivating about Zane, and you know, he understood the Mistborn side of her
Like, he got her on a level that Elend never would
UNTIL HE DID! Okay. Let's talk about that for a second.
Elend being a Mistborn now. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Like, that's what I wanted in the first book
I wanted Elend to also be a Mistborn, but throughout the course of this book, I kind of liked how they
were different and how they had different struggles. But they were still so similar!
Like that scene where Vin and Elend separately both come to see Sazed to talk about relationship advice
and they visit him back-to-back and Sazed's just like, "you're more similar than you think"
I loved Vin and Elend getting to know each other and getting past their differences and still being together
and, like, their relationship was even stronger because they were different, but I don't know where this
is gonna go now. I'm just... *more incoherence* 
I don't know how it's gonna play out. I do trust Brandon Sanderson to handle it in a fantastic way
so we'll see.
Back to Zane for a minute here. I kind of don't think that Zane is dead.
Like, he has that spike in his chest and that is some Inquisitor shit right there.
So I'm really concerned that Zane is still alive and he's gonna be back. I also think that the voice that Zane
was hearing is the voice of that thing that Vin released from the Well. Like, whatever that 
creature/being/entity--whatever that thing is that Vin released, I think that is what was whispering
to Zane, and I think it's the same thing that is controlling the Inquisitors, like Marsh at the end
I feel like shit's about to get real.
Like, realer than it was before, and it was already pretty real.
Let's talk about the kandra. That's another thing that I really did not see coming.
The whole mystery of the kandra infiltrating the group had me so suspicious of EVERYONE
Like, I suspected everyone in the group except for the actual kandra, that never even crossed my mind!
And the funny thing is that I was so suspicious of the kandra in the beginning, when it was actually OreSeur
I was so suspicious, I was like "you are just waiting for a moment to betray Vin"
and I just did not trust him at all. But then, once he becomes the wolfhound, Vin starts bonding with him
and like, they're actually becoming friends, and I started to trust him, and then the betrayal--it hurt so much
because I was like, that's Vin's puppy. Puppy, what are you doing??
But then TenSoon ended up helping her in the end, and like, actually was on her side
and it was just--it was so good.
That whole scene, I like, I almost had to put down the book and like go get some fresh air
because we find out about TenSoon and Zane and then the fight--the book was killing me at that point in time
but I couldn't stop reading. Like, I had to keep going. I am addicted to this series.
Now the third book is called The Hero of Ages, and I have a little bit of a theory and
I almost don't want to share it because so many people have already read the book and I'm probably wrong
but... I don't think there is a hero of ages.
That thing that Vin released from the Well is obviously our big bad and we're gonna have to defeat it
but I don't think that prophecy is really playing into that. Like the way the prophecy was changing
to kind of fit what people were thinking. I feel like there is no real hero of ages
I don't believe in the prophecy anymore, because that thing just wrote them all himself so he could get out
But at the same time I'm not entirely sure, because again, Vin is like unusually powerful
I do think that we're gonna get some kind of revelation about Vin's mother, because from what we know
about her, like these little bits of story about how she killed Vin's younger sister, and gave the earring
to Vin, like, "you're the chosen one" something is up with that.
I feel like the deaths of this book were kind of overshadowed by the big shocking plot moments
Like, with Dockson and Clubs, I spent so much time suspecting that they were the kandra that when
they did actually die, I wasn't as sad because I kinda thought they had already been killed by the kandra
I was kind of sad about Tindwyl, but only because Sazed was so sad. I did like her, and I liked how
she trained Elend to be a better leader, but I wasn't super attached to her. I only really liked her
because Sazed liked her.
I am very happy that Breeze and Ham survived, because they're, like, my favorites of the crew
Finding out that Breeze was a full-blooded noble was shocking! And the funniest part is that didn't
even really come into play in this book. Like maybe in the next book, we'll get to see some of Breeze's family
and like what's going on there. But yeah, I really liked that we got to see a little bit from Breeze's POV
and more of, like, what he does.
My favorite characters are still Vin and Elend, and I just love them together. I'm so happy that they got
married, that was adorable. And I just love how everything is set up at the end
I can't wait to see what happens, oh my goodness.
Like, we have Vin who is kind of becoming a legend, like she is so powerful and so badass
that she can take out entire armies, especially because she controls entire armies of koloss--jesus.
And then Elend who went through all of this character development to become this awesome leader
and now he's also a Mistborn, and he's also emperor of this nation they're rebuilding
and by the way, Vin happened to release this terrible monster thing from the Well of Ascension
I just--this series is so good. I need to go read it now.
Alright! I think that is everything I have to talk about for this video. Though obviously I could go on and on
because so much happens, these books are big and there are just lots of things I could discuss
but I've been talking for quite a while, so I should probably wrap this up.
Thank you so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed it, I hope you have a great night,
and I will have another video up soon, so I will see you then. GOOD-BYEEEEEEEEEE!
