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This review is full of spoilers for the entire trilogy; you could say it will… ruin most twists and turns. The Hero of Ages marks the conclusion of the first Mistborn trilogy. It’s an uneven novel that struggles under the weight of its many plotlines and themes, with redundant character development and some disappointing pay-offs. The story begins a few years after the …

The review will leave you as spoiled as a rich, white, aristocratic kid. The second book in the Mistborn trilogy, The Well of Ascension, is much more flawed than its predecessor. Still repetitive and occasionally inconsistent, the novel is now also rife with problematic characterization and badly used genre tropes, with even the titular MacGuffin not being used… well, feeling …