I finished up this book about a week ago but it's safe to say that it's a good sequel that does what a sequel is supposed to do. It deepens the world Sanderson created in the first book and answers a lot of questions along the way. I get so tired of books and other media outlets that seems to always revel in leaving more questions than giving answers, so it's refreshing to see a series that actually answers questions - that's one of the best things about this book and these series thus far.
The other thing I liked about this book was how Sanderson continued to deepen the characters in the book. They become changed from the events of the first book, that deepening of them just makes reading this book a joy and gave me a total connection with them. This book went into the past of the one main female character, Shallan, just like the first book did with Kaladin. Sanderson uses this device with great effect as it really helps to sharpen Shallan up as a character, giving her a lot more depth and complexity. Her character really grew on me in this book. Looking forward to seeing who Sanderson might choose to do this with in the third book, if he's going to do it all because of the events at the end of this book might not permit it, but who knows what will happen later.
Sanderson is also a good writer as he likes to put in a bunch of nerd moments that makes reading certain scenes a cant-put-it-don-have-to-see-how-this-scene-ends kind of way. Adolin's big dual being one of those scenes along with Kaladin's big fight scene near the end of the book. Well actually the whole last part of this book was really a big couldn't put it done kind of read. One of my favorite scenes was between Shallan and Adolin as they talked about things people don't normally talk about when wearing Shardplate - that scene had me in stitches as it was quite funny and furthered the two lovers relationship at the same time.
Sanderson also took a big gamble with this book as the character of Kaladin was kind of asshole through most of this book and Sanderson stuck to his guns on this, which was bold of him. But the events of him leading up the choices and decisions he made, made complete sense and to betray this would have betrayed his character. Also, Sanderson's writing has a very flowing and passion to it that I thought was lacking from the first Mistborn book, which is I think one of the reason why I didn't finish it. To end this, I can say I'm really looking forward to next book(s) in this series and hope their as long as the first two books were.
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