The Hero of Ages

I didn't like this concluding part of the Mistborn trilogy quite as much as I liked the first two. It's still enjoyable, but some of the directions it chose to go didn't work for me. The antagonist seemed to be the embodiment of a vague abstract force, and that just seemed a bit too much to take. And the long angsting about the nature and value of religious faith didn't really sit that well with me, although the same character's depression, which drove his disaffection, seemed quite realistically described.

Maybe the truth of the matter is simply that the book was a bit too gloomy to be much fun. The world is being destroyed for most of the book, after all.

There were some nice touches that cast new light on the earlier books, and there was still enough there to keep me reading. I've given it 3.5/5.