** spoiler alert ** 
 22/03/16: 
 I................I can't find words for what I have read................I was at a lost for words with the first book as well so I never made a proper review for it, but this time I'm going to try! Shall sleep on it first though because I am speechless after completing this. 
 23/03/16: 
 So I'm going to start this by just getting all my gushing and fangirling out of the way. Skip the next few lines if you want to get to the actual review: 
 #1 - Elend is a beautiful man and my new fictional crush and I freaking love him so much. 
 #2 - Vin and Elend are probably the most beautiful couple I have ever read in a fantasy series thus far. They are now my new beloved OTP. 
 #3 - Vin is one of the best female protagonists ever. 
 #4 - The entire crew in this story. LOVE. THEM. 
 #5 - SAZED AND TINDWYL THO. T_T. 
 #6 - THAT ENDING THO MADE ME FEEL ALL THE FEELS. By part five it got sooooo hard to read because of how I was reacting to what was happening and I had to put it down so many times to take a few breaths and calm myself down.. 
 AND NOW FOR THE ACTUAL REVIEW: 
 So this book took me about a whole month to get through, and usually it would bother me if I took that long to read a book (I'm a bit competitive with myself sometimes with reading, so it could get a bit bothersome if I seem to be reading something so slowly). However, I was in love with every single part of this sequel. Just like the first book, I really wish there was a way to give this 100/5 stars on this site in order to fully express my entire feelings about this book. 
 Compared to the first book, the pacing was definitely a lot slower. It was understandable though considering that the main plot in this one focused on the rebuilding of a kingdom after being taken over by a corrupt ruler for so long. The pacing also left a lot of room for character development, which was an area that I could honestly say that this book excelled in. I was especially impressed with the development of Elend Venture. Elend Venture went from this young boy who had so many fantastic ideas on how to rebuild a stable government for Luthadel but not having the right presence or control to lead an entire city, and he slowly grew into this well-respected man who was able to do what needed to be done. I was already in love with his character in the previous book, but because he was more of a side character back then we did not get to see much of him outside of how Vin and a few other characters viewed him as. Now that he is one of the main characters in this trilogy, we got the opportunity to see so much growth in his character in Well of Ascension, and my love for his character just kept blooming as I flipped from one page to another. And, of course, our main lady Vin got just as much development as Elend did in this one, and my love for her character continued to grow in a very similar way. Vin has finally started to realize that not all humans in the world are completely bad, and throughout this book she continuously tries to build her trust for the people that are closest to her. She has now become this very strong woman who is able to defend herself and (now possibly) an entire nation. The things that I love the most about Vin's character are very similar as the reasons I have about loving Eona from the Eon duology. She is a strong lady, but at the same time she shows and acknowledges the weaknesses/faults that she has and continuously works on trying to improve herself in those areas and accept herself for who she is. 
 The rest of the crew were amazing of course. I was really satisfied by the fact that Breeze got to have some POV scenes in this book, and it made me grow to respect his character a lot more. I also really loved that Clubs was in this book more as well (super sad that him and Dox died though...I almost couldn't finish when that happened....). I was even satisfied with the amount of time given to Spook, and it seems like from the last few parts of the book that he might have even more parts in Hero of Ages! Then there was Sazed, who was a very interesting character to read even more about and I loved the direction that Sanderson took with his character throughout the story. Like all the other characters, I grew to love Sazed even more in this book. Even the minor characters were really great, like TenSoon, Allrianne and Tindwyl. I loved them all! (Well....except Straff because Straff is.....no XD). 
 Unlike the first book, Well of Ascension definitely had a larger focus on the romance between Elend and Vin, which I was very happy with. The romance, although more prevalent, never took over the story too much that it pushed the main plot to the side lines. It was simply there as a support for even more character development for these two characters. Like I mentioned above in my gushing, I think Elend and Vin are the most beautiful couple I have ever read in a fantasy series. They had many bumps on the road that a typical fictional couple would have and it almost went borderline love triangle when Zane was introduced into the picture, but I was immensely impressed and overjoyed with how it all turned out. (One of my favourite scenes in the book was when Vin went to Sazed for relationship advice, and then when she left Elend came in for the same thing xD Genius scene. It made me laugh so much. xD) In addition, their little conversations with each other were some of the things that really helped balance out the seriousness of the story a lot and they never failed to make me smile. 
 All this time I am just talking about the characters and their development, but of course I cannot leave out my comments about the plot and storyline. Once again, everything was well organized and I just loved how the slow pacing eventually led us to.......well that freaking ending that blew my mine. It always made me think about the possible routes that this story could go while still leaving me speechless once I got to the end. All I can say now is that I CANNOT WAIT to start Hero of Ages!