The Hero of Ages

A weak and unconvincing conclusion to what started as a very promising trilogy. I liked the characters and the setting as well as the story in the first entry (The Final Empire), followed Vin's character development avidly in the second (Well Of Ascension), but found little to enjoy in the senseless re-animation of Elend and the thoroughly unimaginative battle against “Ruin”, who came across as a cartoon villain from a children's story. The narrative ran out of steam, the characters became flat and did not develop, and the good work of the first two volumes was undone by this very disappointing third volume.