The Final Empire vs The Well of Ascension: Which Should You Read?

The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson · 2001 ★★★★☆ 4.5 670 pages · ≈ 12 h 24 m · Moderate

“Sometimes I worry that I’m not the hero everyone thinks I am. The philosophers assure me that this is the time, that the signs have been met. But I still wonder if they have the wrong man. So many people depend on me. They say I will hold the future of the entire world on my arms. What would they think if they knew that their champion—the Hero of Ages, their savior—doubted himself? Perhaps t”

For a thousand years ashes have fallen from the sky. For a thousand years nothing has flourished. For a thousand years the skaa have been enslaved and live in misery, mired in inevitable fear. For a thousand years the…

The Well of Ascension Brandon Sanderson · 2007 ★★★★☆ 4.4 792 pages · ≈ 14 h 40 m · Moderate

The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler -- the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years -- has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that…