I don’t understand how people like mistborn

Let me start by saying that I love brandon sanderson work. His storm archive series was the best thing I ever read. But man did I strugle to read mistborn everyone says that it’s one of the the best trilogy in fiction and I understand that the magic system is very innovative and interesting. But regardless the story is ass. I read up to book 2 and it felt like an absolute drag.

My main gripe is Elend , the most bland and boring character that I ever seen. I still can’t get over the fact that they made him king in the first book that was so outrageous to me. Years of subjugation thousands of deaths and torture to achieve the impossible and then we put a noble as our king . Stellar. And I understand that the commoners weren’t ready for a leader position or whatever but I feel like there was so many candidates that could beat elend’s philosophy club

but regardless into the next point. Romance in a book if done right can elevate it but if done poorly you get elend and vin. No chemistry I still can’t remember a conversation that wasn’t cringe worthy or awkward. But I can actually excuse that there are bigger things to focus on the story; if the author didn’t make it a point to remind you every 2-3 pages that they love each other. Some of these moments were so random that I literally laughed. Vin would be jumping from roof to roof when she suddenly remembered how much she loves elend and how much he deserves someone better blah blah blah 2 page of how great elend is.

And That also would’ve been fine if he was actually great. But let me ask you this tell me something that elend did that was amazing or helpful other than writing the law (sazed helped for most of it) . I’ll name you two instances that I can’t sleep at night thinking of. Elend way underestimated his father to an infuriating level. He basically went there no plan,no strategy for fighting if shit hit the fan (other than vin will handle it),nothing. He was so arrogant and adamant that he can handle his father I face palmed many time. And when I obviously didn’t work out he used vin as a threat. This is the only person that is qualified to be a king?

Oh and I hate that when ever they talk about him they always use the same compliment he’s a kind /nice person. Because that’s the most you can give his character.It’s such a low bar that it’s laughable yet people keep using it over and over again like we’re supposed to be impressed.

Let’s not even talk about how he messed up every thing else inside the walls. I was actually happy when they kicked his incompetent ass out of the office because he didn’t do anything. His plan was “I’m not gonna surrender but don’t count on me to come up with something else”.

The second instance is how after he lost his seat as a king and said that if that’s what the people wanted (even the commoners didn’t like btw) that he wasn’t king anymore. But the books end with him leaving the city with 3 armies surrounding it and then coming back a day or two later to find himself king of all of them including every other city in the continent and the koloss under him.

He was so irrelevant to the final battle that he was hiding when he came to the city because he didn’t know he was king. the fucking irony. He got everything handed to him while being the most useless and incompetent person ever. And he ACCEPTED it. What happened to his morals of “I cAn’t tAke pOwer FoRceFullY” or “ThE PeOpLe DeCide”.

And just to piss everyone with a brain at the end elend becomes a mistborn. Great. because there wasn’t anything that he couldn’t have. The least deserving person of this power. I would’ve been happier if spook got it.

I’ll probably still read the last book cause why not. But hopefully elend isn’t so relevant in it (jk I know he probably the hidden main character or something I can see it from a mile away. And elend gets a bj from every lady of the continent because he’s a nice person the end)

by HxH11