Brandon Sanderson is trying to kill me

[indiana_j]

I'm not sure why The Hero of the Ages (book 3 in the Mistborn trilogy) took so long to get through even though I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I mean, it's not like the other two were that much different in length.  There was just something heavy about this one in a way that I didn't get with the other two.  The 'problem' with these books is that while there's hope - there's always hope - 98% of the time you're reading people who are really not certain they're going to be living much longer.  And that's really, really noticeable here.

But I kept reading because of that tiny thread of hope, knowing (praying) that this was going to turn out well somehow.  For someone.  At least one of them?  Sanderson really doesn't believe much in the sanctity of his main characters and anyone, at any time, is fair game.  We learned that very clearly in Mistborn, the first book.

I might talk more about this series in length when I'm not so saturated in it (I had to finish tonight.  If I didn't, I would have screamed).  This last book made me want to throw it against the wall, it made me laugh, cry and make high pitched noises that would have only been heard by dogs.  The entire series spans 2,130 pages and there's not a page in there that I didn't think was worth the slog through.

God, I hope they never put this into one book.  It was hard enough carrying around just one of them.

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[daroos.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of Robin Hobb's trilogy of trilogies, which was at parts wonderful, but at the end left me thinking, "Holy shitnuggets, I'm not going to be doing that again."

I then wanted to curl up under a blanket for a while and cave to huge amounts of depression. Very well written, interesting and epic, but man, exhausting.