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 Review: This book is too much of an overkill, to be honest. 
 Some time ago, I watched a bunch of youtubers raving about this series and I thought I could pick it up. I did. I loved The Final Empire and obviously could have given it 5 stars, but it stayed at 4. Why? Because of the writing. This book is just the same, but longer. 
 Coming after The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension tells a story of Luthadel after Lord Ruler. Two armies outside the Luthadel's gate in order to rule it against Elend Venture. 
 "Vin shrugged. "That's not only how they treat kandra, OreSeur. That's the same way crewleaders treat a young girl - an anomaly in a thieving underground filled with men. A child who had strange ability to make things happen - to influence people, to hear what she shouldn't, to move more quietly and quickly than others. A tool, yet a threat at the same time." 
 Truthfully, I loved Brandon Sanderson's choice of words. It was excellent and extraordinary. The writing included formality, descriptions, but... Like I said, it was too much of an overkill. It was too long and repetitive about characters' feelings that I no longer cared about. It felt like the author just expanded the writing so that the book would look thick and plotful, but with the plot, this book needn't 780 pages of writing to fulfill it. It merely turned out to be very fatigue. 
 About the plot, I definitely loved book 1 better. Because the first 600 pages remained to be about politics, invasions, armies, and negotiations. I found my disinterest in this book real quick. There were really few fighting scenes, less than I expected. I originally wanted to give this book 2 stars, but the ending was bomb. The last 170 pages was intriguing and intense. The ending was pain that improved into hope and happiness. Earned the star. 
 The character development in Vin from the last book, oh my god. Love. She was now strong, ferocious, assertive, and perhaps also infuriating. She was protective towards Elend, yet she was so close to making lose my shit. Elend was the baby of this entire book. He's the subtle baby. I loved him. He was very supportive and trusting. I also kind of missed them Vin and Elend flirting at balls in the first book, too. 
 Overall: I can't decide if this book was worth it or not, but I did like parts and parts of it. I sort of feel that I wasted one week on this book while I could be reading something else. I would continue reading the third book, but that would take time.