Mistborn: The Final Empire

I couldn't put this book down. It had me from the first few pages and throughout.
You really get invested in the characters, their opinions, thoughts and relations to one another.
I love Sanderson's take on “magic” in the book, and how the reader is presented these rules and limitation, only to be left questioning and a bit confused in the end - just as the main characters are.

Some twists and turns I did see coming, while others I speculated about and expected from hints left by the author, sometimes quite obvious ones that the characters missed. This kind of writing can often get frustrating because you feel like the characters are dumber than they should be, but that's not the case here, somehow Sanderson makes it feel like you're JUST ahead of the characters. It made me read the book much more closely, often going back and looking for clues again.

The word building, while exciting, feels a bit lacking. You only really see a small part of the empire, and different groups feels a bit simplified and too uniform to be believable. This I hope is fleshed out in the following books of the series, because the world and story really has potential to be as enticing as the characters and their abilities.