*CAUTION – SMALL SPOILER ALERT*
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program of Mistborn book reviews.
Alright, so since the trilogy is so intertwined, this review won’t be in depth. I can’t talk about the plot much without spoiling the first book, but I may have to spoil some things. The Well Of Ascension begins 1 year after the ending of the first book. Vin is now an extremely experienced allomancer with over 2 years of training. She is dating the new ruler of Luthadel, Elend Venture. He was heir to one of the mode powerful houses in Luthadel and Vin liked him since she first attended the balls that the nobility hosted when she was part of Kelsier’s group. Elend is a philosopher who was convinced in a government with a voting system at the start of his rule. But, as it turned out, the people of that time weren’t ready for a system like that.

After overthrowing the lord ruler (sorry for the spoiler) Elend and Vin desperately try to find the Lord Ruler’s hidden stash of Atium – the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal ever. They want to either sell it or let Vin use it to protect Elend from assassins. With no luck finding the stash, they stop searching for it.

Soon after, Elend’s father camps on the outskirts of Luthadel with a massive army. Elend’s father is convinced that Elend is hiding the Atium and wants it for himself, he is prepared to kill his own son if he has to. A second army arrives a few days later with the same goals as Elend’s father. The two present armies are of equal size. A siege arises from the new situation. A siege is a sort of tie between the three parties. If Elend’s father attacks the city, he will take it but after the battle has finished, the other army would attack Elend’s father’s weakened army and Luthadel’s walls would have been destroyed at that point. With neither armies attacking first, they wait out Luthadel and hope to starve them or make them agree to hand the city over.

After several months of the siege, an army of mutant men called Koloss attack the city. All hope seemed lost until Vin used an allomantic metal near a Koloss and took it under her control. With this new found knowledge, they subdue the Koloss and discover the Well Of Ascension. The Well Of Ascension is a pool of water which gives a chosen hero unfathomable powers. Vin takes the power and releases it, which is what the old prophecies say to do but when she does a voice yells “I’M FREE!!!”. She had just released a God of destruction called Ruin. Ruin was able to change the words on the prophecy to make it fit his needs. Elend is stabbed by a mist figure, a desperate Vin feeds him a magical metal found at the Well. I won’t say anything else otherwise I’ll spoil a plot twist and no one would want that.

Well, with that out of the way, I’ll see you next week a review of the last book in the trilogy.