Louise's Reviews > The Well of Ascension

I've come to the conclusion that Sanderson is a great story teller, but not a great writer. There were parts of the book that could have been more eloquent and therefore more powerful, but just wasn't. Particularly, the ending.

But wait, let's start at the beginning.

The Well of Ascension picks up 2 years after the previous book, but it feels like it was immediately after the events of the first book. Nothing really happened. And nothing will really happen for the first 3/4 of the book. There's a siege in Luthadel and it feels lik ea siege because not only does nothing get in or out of the city, but all progress in the story stops. Imagine this for hundreds of pages.

Then there's a twist. Then the story really gets going. Then it gets going really fast, and the it ends.

The abrupt turn of events at the end had me scratching my head. I guess my mind should have been blown more, but it was all so rushed that I kind of just took it in stride. Like an episode of Lost, a lot of things went unanswered, so I'll probably read the next book to really get some answers.