Hello, I just finished the first trilogy for the first time and wanted to give some of my toughts (or complaints) to it. And would like to here some thoughts of you too.

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TLDR: I come of as pretty negative I think here but it is more so because I very much enjoyed the story, that's why I feel it low points do hurt it. I liked Vin growing confident in the first book, her embrace with Elend at the end felt so special, more than anything else in all 3 books. I loved Breeze, of all the crew he actualy did follow Kelsiers advice to always smile in his own way. I enjoyed Spooks journey in Utreau, having to come to terms that he is his own person and his ideal from who he wants to be. Sazed conflict with himself and with his place in the world. TenSoon having to learn to trust like Vin. It just needed to be that bit better in a few extra places.

First of I would say I'd rate the enjoyment as 1st The Final Empire, 2nd The Hero of Ages and 3rd The Well of Ascension. People say book 2 is good because it focuses on character development but I just don't see it (more on that later). I would've said book 3 is as good as 1 but it suffers from "First couple of chapters something happens and the plot moves forward, then we get stuck in two places for 80% of the book until the arbitrary time has been filled for it to continue. Book 2 sufferes from this too only you are stuck in one place running in circles which makes it so much worse. If something took time in book one there was a time skip to see the changes and we actually saw a progression throughout the entire book.

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Characters acting a certain way Or the worst Moment in book 2

Sometimes characters won't act like they should just because the plot has to be a certain way. Vin had an idea where her place in society was in the end of book 1. At the start of book 2 she is conflicted again for no real reason just so she can find it later. The worst case I can think of is in book 2 When Elend talks with Jastes the first time. In this book he still is an absolute idealist, to the very core. It gets even shown later when he would have won the assembly vote if he hadn't corrected two of the votes (which was wrong by the way, just because their candidate didn't win didn't mean that their vote was worthless something super duper smart king Mr. Misery should know, but that is besides the point, in general the whole rule about being allowed to change your vote based on others votes completly goes against any form unbiased choice, but hey it needed to be there to show Elend is a good boy). So what are Elends ideals? He believes in the good of the people, trusting most will make the right choice, are understandable, reasonable and everyone has their own viewpoint on things which combined with other viewpoints and compromise gives the best possible reason to action.

Yes he talked to his dad and shared a meal, the guy who came to Luthadel to enslave everything back into how it was and kill Elend. He talked politely to him first. What did he do with Cett, the guy that wanted to undermine his entire rule through the vote (and conquer and enslave everything back into how it was if it didn't work). He talked politely to him first.

Then he goes to Jastes Lekal. You know the guy he knew most of his life and felt he had similar ideals back then? The guy that from the initial offer seemed to keep Luthadel to fall to Tyranny? Yes he had the brilliant diplomatic thought of immediatly getting aggressive to him and stabbing him in the freaking shoulder for bringing a koloss army. Losing most of his family from failing his kingdom? Feeling he is deperate and has nowhere to go? Irrelivant Jastes is just a big baby and super evil. Not unlike the other two fine gentlemen that were besieging him, no they just brought a regular army that is very reasonable. I'm glad that talk was so effective since we saw how Jastes army retreated afterwards. Also showed really well his current strategy of trying to align to every army to play everyone out. This could have been handled in so many different number of ways with the same outcome but not in a way Elend was cosplaying as Zane. If Jastes was supposed to be a reflection on how Elend would act/turn out if he failed as a king he hasn't wasted a single thought about it, THAT could have been his moment of character development.

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How the ending of book 2 is dumb

I really don't like that the siege conflict for book 2 was Vin having to decide between Elend and stabbing everyone won't solve everything with Zane that stabbing everyone would solve everything. Then she rejects Zane and trusts Elend proceeding to stabbing everyone to solve everything and Elend going "lol that was okay I was wrong" which really begs to question what the entire point off everything everyone did in the book mattered at all. All Vin would have had to do is go into a rampage mode and fight all 3 armies at the same time, then she would have "accidentialy" discover she can brain wash the koloss and problem solved.

I don't get why Cett's army moved off only for plot to happen. Like yeah, he lost the vote but that wasn't his plan to get Luthadel anyway in the beginning. He still had his army and Vin didn't kill him and he still was a gambling man. He might be scared that she would kill him eventually and he was powerless to fight back? But he would have had to deal with that throughout his entire life.

Straff getting himself posioned was a very nice twist. You know it would have been a form of poetic justice that he felt he was superior to everyone only to die of his own hubris. But no he survived that (just finding the right ingredients somehow, I to can make meth just by throwing things together despite not knowing how to do it), standing outside his tent for an hour twirling his moustache evily until Vin turns him into Str aff. His army didn't matter that much in the end and I felt it would have been much more fitting.

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Random things:

When Vin was captured by Yomen, it sure was convenient for Marsh to barge into the room with a bag filled with vials Vin could steal from to regain her power, even more convenient he had duralumin in there, boy was she lucky for that...

Vin could fight Zane without atium but Yomen, a regular priest with no special training was too much for her poor instincts to predict his movements compared to that of a full mistborn. In general Vin gets a lot of Deus Ex Machina moments that just help her with whatever she has to do that moment. She often makes guesses at something. In book 1 those where reasonable thoughts, some turn out right, some wrong. Afterwards whatever she guesses is often the correct thing.

I really, reallyy dislike Zane and Vin in the tower when they go off killing Cett. Mainly because it ruins any semblance of scale we had thus far. Mistborn are supposedly very strong people. We are shown in book 1 this with Kelsier who has been a full Mistborn for some time and is also a very skilled one. But it is also often shown (and implied) that Mistborn aren't invincible. They can't just run into the middle of an army and stop everyone (right Vin?). And we are shown Mistborn can be countered, even with regular people. Kelsier fights 6-8 Hazekillers gets wounded and struggles with them and has to flee as soon as more allomancers arrive so he doesn't get overwhelmed and those Hazekillers mind you fight quite effectively. So naturaly Vin beats 50 of those guys with no scratch at all.

Of all the cast, I feel most sorry about Dockson. Poor poor Dockson. I feel like he was set out to be suspicous so you think he is the kandra. In hindsight I feel more like Sanderson didn't know what to do with him anymore after Kelsiers death. He was the guy to bounce back from with Kelsier more than anything. So he was just there barely mentioned only to die unspectacularly so Sanderson didn't have to keep him in the story.

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Thoughts on the ending:

I find it so bizzare that the solution to getting rid of Ruins body was burning it. Elend came up with that in like an hour. The Lord Ruler who had 1000 years to ponder this question never thought about this. Like I know he was influenced by Ruin in the end but if this solution was the solution, why on earth had he been collecting up ruins body for the entirety of the millenia? You'd think he'd scatter it instead at the very least. Or you know burn it too. Before that I thought burning attium would return that strength back to Ruin THAT's why he was collecting it instead.

I don't know why but Elends death affected me the most, despite him feeling like a minor character in his own story. Whatever Elend did it didn't matter compared to whatever Vin did. He always felt a bit like a fish out of water, in book 1 too with not really getting what was happening around him. It's just sad he was dead despite always trying his best to make it right to everyone (except Jastes fuck him).

I don't get why Super Sazed, of all people came to the conclusion the Lord Ruler had honorable intentions, but failed at it/was corrupted. Rashek was flawed from the very beginning, feeling he could do a better job then Alendi, that's why Kwan sent him. He styled himself as a god, never admitted any fault and you know conquered and enslaved the majority of the world. He treated everyone beneath him, the nobility, the ska, the kandra. Like turning your former friends into goo pits so they can't challenge you isn't the epitome of virtue Sazed.

In lieu of the above thought Vin really wasn't the best concioussnes to wield Preservation like Super Sazed thinks. I get that she is the main character but come on Super Sazed you know her faults (such as being a bit of a mary sue). Preservation is stability and no change, exactly how was Vin this? If anything the Lord Ruler embodied that more.