Just Finished Reading The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

I just finished reading installment number two in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn fantasy series, titled The Well of Ascension.  The story continues in what had been known as "the Final Empire" as Vin and Elend, along with the "crew", try to fend off challenging armies bent on taking over the capital city of Luthadel from the rebels who had liberated it and re-enslaving the "skaa" population (corresponding to what we would term as "peasants" or "commoners").  Vin is a mistborn; i.e. she has the ability to ingest and burn certain metals (within her stomach) that accord superhuman abilities.  She is by far the greatest mistborn in generations, and her people reverently depend on her as "the one" who will save them.  By contrast, Elend, her love interest and a principled, compassionate noble who sided with the just struggle against the oppressive "Lord Ruler" in the first book, has neither the charisma nor the forcefulness to hold on to the throne of King as others plot around him to usurp his authority and eventually overthrow him.  In the background of the story is the subplot...which rises to the forefront of the story at the end...of an insidious malevolence within the mist that pervades the lands at night and is now beginning to encroach upon the daytime.  Is Vin the prophesied "Hero of Ages" who will go to the Well of Ascension and release the power to restore the lands and eliminate the mists and ashes afflicting them?  It all comes to a head at the end and raises all kinds of questions for the upcoming third and final book in this trilogy.

Oh, did I say "third and final"?  Excuse me, for Sanderson has decided to write two more trilogies about the mistborn, making nine total books.  I suppose I'll be checking up from time to time on the Internet to see when he'll be coming out with the next book, until it's all over...unless he decides to make a trilogy of trilogies of trilogies, that is...