Mistborn: The Final Empire

I grabbed this based on many positive reviews from the people that I follow on Goodreads and previous experience of Sanderson's writing with the Stormlight Archive. And I was not disappointed.

Ok, I was, a little. Kelsier feels a little like the first release candidate of Kaladin. There is only really one chick, who admittedly kicks all the arse and takes all the names, but still. The part where I was most disappointed was the lore. Maybe I expect too much, having read the Stormlight Archive books first, but the only real sense I got of the history of the world was with Sazid's religions. Which I loved. It's been mentioned to me that more lore happens in the next two books, so I'm looking forward to that.

Other parts that I liked: the gathering of 'philospoher' nobles were just all talk and not impotently planning a revolution. I kept waiting for Vin's brother to show up and wreck all the plans, and was pleasantly surprised how that turned out. I was pleased it didn't end up being a heist movie plot in the end, because it was looking that way for a good chunk of the book (I didn't actually expect it to continue being a heist movie, I was just curious to see how Sanderson would steer away from it once he'd set it up). The identity of the Lord Ruler. And of course the way in which Kelsier finally gets the skaa rebellion happening.

And, of course, there are more questions raised than answered by the end - the best part of that being that the next two books are already written and I don't have to wait around for years to find out the answers.