Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Eight Part 2 Spook in Ruin’s Power In this chapter, we show Spook almost completely under Ruin’s power. This is the ultimate culmination of everything that the force has been working toward with Spook. Ruin knows how to play off the lusts of mankind. Lust makes sense to Ruin, as he…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Eight Spacing Out the Climaxes I tried something new in this book. I’ve been criticized—rightly—in the past for cramming too much into my endings. A good, fast-paced ending is great, but when you layer climax on top of climax, a little of it gets lost. I’ve been trying, therefore, to plot…
Annotation Elantris – The Hope of Elantris Matisse This short story actually has a very interesting backstory. If we flash back to January 2006, we find me having been dating Pemberly (her real name is Emily, but she goes by Pemberly online) for about two months. Our relationship was still quite new, and we weren’t…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Seven Vin Wonders If She’s Mad I love Vin’s paragraph on deciding if she’s mad or not. Zane spent his entire adult life debating this issue, trying to determine whether he was really insane or not and trying to figure out how much of the world around him was a fabrication…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Six Spook and Sazed Talk about Faith I say that I don’t try to put messages or morals into my writing, but that doesn’t mean they don’t appear there. It just means that I try to avoid sitting down and writing stories for the express purpose of getting across an agenda.…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Five Elend Sees the Mist Spirit Elend really does have a lot of faith in Vin, even if he doesn’t worship her. He ascribes an almost supernatural power to her. And, I can kind of see why he would. In these books, Vin’s almost less of a character and more a…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Three Beldre is a Normal Person The point Spook makes about Beldre being normal is an important one in this book. I think that readers might be overly harsh on her for her innocence and the way she ended up getting captured. (Though there is more going on there than the…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Two This Book’s Epigraphs The epigraphs from this book are quite a bit different from the ones in the previous two volumes. These are a much more scientific, and—unlike the first two sets—are not from the past, but from the future. (Though, like the other two, they’re from a written record…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-One Elend Fights the Koloss in the Village This chapter gets my next award for favorite chapters in this book. (I think this is number four.) The next few Elend chapters run him through the ringer—and yet at the same time let him shine. He’s alone, forced to work through his…
