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 OH WOW! I don't even know what to say. Well obviously I have more plenty to say but after just finishing this book it feels like my brain has gone to mush. This is definitely my favorite book in the series, what an ending! I'm amazed really I didn't expect any of that to happen, what was I doing before I read the mistborn trilogy, HOW WAS I LIVING! Seriously if you haven't read these books yet, you need to get to it, one of the best fantasy there is. 
 Now how do I start The Hero of Ages still switches POVs between the main characters and there's more than one storyline rolled into one. The main problem the world is ending. Elend now emperor, and Vin empress of the New Empire after securing their positions and Luthadel, now have an even greater problem. What was once called the deepness has returned. The mists are now coming out in the daylight destroying crops and anyone who ventures out in the mists now puts them selves in danger, for the mists now kill. With this threat Elend and Vin must now take action. 2 years ago, Vin harvested the power from the Well of Ascension and in the greater good gave it up, the Well was in a storage cache where the Lord Ruler stocked it with supplies if a situation like this were to occur. In the cache he also leaves a series of locations were other caches alike are. Elend and Vin so far have 3 leaving the remaining-one in Urteau and the other in Fadrex- still have all their goods for the crew to collect. 
 That is just what the story starts off with but then the plot turns into something new and amazing! This book took so many unexpected turns which made the ride amazing, in this book you go more into depth with the legends regarding the Hero of Ages and the deepness and other forces in this book. I have to say this book was always a guessing game for me , I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen which made the excitement for me so much greater. This book had sooo many plot twists they are had to keep track of and I loved this book so much it's hard to describe. 
 Brandon Sanderson is such a good story teller, his books just kept on getting better and better. It's hard to believe what we even started with looking back to the first book. How much the characters have changed, the plot, how much we've learned and what has become of this trilogy. The author has a way of engaging you in the very beginning, they started you off with an amazing idea through you into a wonderful world and kept on improving the story and plot to keep you reading. As always I loved the action in this book it was so exciting, and gripping it was all so well described throughout the book. 
 I really appreciate that everything in this book mattered and fit one way or another into the overall plot. With books especially at this size tend to have a lot of worthless information and pointless scenes which make no difference to the story if they were there or not and are just plain boring. This book definitely had none of those scenes everything had a purpose. 
 This book was so fast paced and intense it felt as if I'd only been reading for half an hour when in reality hours had passed. I liked how this book was realistic and not everybody survived in the end, people died. Main characters and side characters, the author wasn't afraid to kill people off in the story and knew when killing was necessary, there was no sugar coating it, they were brutal but never for nothing, for that I want to applaud the author for. I'm usually not ok when characters die in books, even though I grew attachments to the characters and didn't wish for them to die, I also loved the fact that they did because it improved the book so much. 
 The ending was amazing I was not expecting that, you expect everyone to live happily ever after. Which they did in a way everything was restored but the battle to make that happen. The hopelessness you felt when you knew that things weren't going to go as you hoped, that you really have no idea how things are going to turn out, and anything can happen as long as the author wishes it. So many things happened in the last chuck of the book that you wouldn't believe. 
 This book has something else that I greatly appreciated the lesson that it held. Balance, there are consequence, there cannot be good without bad. It talked about religion, believing, faith. And I loved it it was entertaining yes but also makes you think of important stuff too, as the characters grew it felt as if you did too. 
 This brings me to character development and oh my! There was so much of it. Vin has learned from the previous book she now knows how to trust something that before Kelsier has been trying to teach her. She no longer feels like the knife she once was. She still is a knife but she has a great reason to be one to protect her people and those she loves. It's so hard to imagine the old Vin now. The child that kept to the shadows trying not to be seen now that we know who she has become. 
 And Elend. I am so happy with his character now, in the last book Elend became a leader and changed so much from the child he used to be, the simple idealist, and he continues to amaze me. Elend has now become mistborn and no longer depends on Vin to protect him. He has become independent and so sure of himself. He is so compassionate and the way he cares about his friends, soldiers and people is admirable. Elend is still left to make tough decisions and I like how the author isn't scared to play with his characters make them make mistakes and fall on the wrong path for a time. 
 I really didn't expect anything with spook he wasn't that big of a character but I'm happy with how he turned out. Spook is now so desperately trying to help, anything he can do to help Elend and Vin. This turns him into a leader, shy Spook now gaining the trust of the people of Urteau when he try's to take over the city to get the cache inside. The people start viewing him as they did Kelsier and now call him the the surviver of the Flames. I was so happy to see something being done with his character now he isn't just in the background and has a role that I enjoyed reading about. 
 Sazed I was sort of iffy with him during this book, actually I was iffy with him during the whole series. To be honest I still don't know how I feel about his character. In the book he trying to figure out himself. Religion, that's his specialty but he doesn't know which one he believes in. How can he preach religion if he doesn't believe in any of them. And then there Tindwyl who is now dead, and Sazed has to get over that as well. Sazed has a far more important role in this book and I was really surprised with what happened with his character but happy of course as well. 
 In this book you learn a lot, one of the biggest things is the creatures that the Lord Ruler created The Kendra, the koloss and the inquisitor. In The Hero of Ages you get dumped with all this information. You get a better sense of the Lord Ruler and this legend and what really happened on that night when Rashek took the power from the Well of Assension. 
 You also learn about Ruin the force that Vin let out when she released the power from the Well. Ruin a force, a God really. They have always been just pawns in a part of ruins plans. Ruin will destroy the New Empire. If someone doesn't stop it. But can someone stop it is the question. 
 I really recommend this book, if you haven't started it yet, I don't know what you've been doing with your life. READ IT!!!!!!!!! 
 "It is too easy for people to characterize Ruin as simply a force of destruction. Think rather of Ruin as intelligent decay. Not simply chaos, but a force that sought in a rational--and dangerous--way to break everything down to its most basic forms. 
 Ruin could plan and carefully plot, knowing if he built one thing up, he could use it to knock down two others. The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process."