Book diaries, retrospectives, and the things I care about outside work. More technical notes will land here as I publish them.
I went into Mistborn on a completely clean slate. During The Final Empire, I could imagine many plausible endings. During The Well of Ascension, I thought I had begun to understand Sanderson's way of thinking. By The Hero of Ages, I had given up guessing altogether.
Part 3 of my Mistborn WhatsApp diary. I began Book Three bored and unable to keep reading. Halfway through, I had stopped guessing entirely. And then everything came together.
Part 2 of my Mistborn WhatsApp diary. History was obviously repeating itself, I was sure of it. I was also sure Zane was Vin's brother Reen. That theory survived approximately 41 minutes.
I had never heard of Mistborn. Then a friend recommended it and it took over my days. What follows is my WhatsApp diary, what I messaged her with timestamps, wrong theories, and my excited mumblings as I was reading The Final Empire.