Mistborn: The Final Empire

After all these years of reading fantasy, I have finally given Brandon Sanderson a proper try. I had checked out a few of his standalone stories and his YA entry, none of which left a super good impression, so I figured his more popular entries like Mistborn wouldn't be that much different. Everything I read afterwards from naysayers about this book only confirmed that belief, but I thought now was a good time to finally give it a try for myself.

And well, I liked it! Do I recognize the complaints? Sure. Sometimes you got beaten over the head with character traits that are fairly obvious (yes, yes, Vin has trust issues. I GET IT) and it's not like I would be particularly heartbroken if any of them died (except for Sazed probably), but none of that got in the way of the cool plotting and story structure, the world and its villains, the way the action came together, and just general entertainment value. All of it is just pretty cool and exciting! But not in a way that it's just mindless entertainment.

Overall, super glad to finally be able to cross this off my list and not having “mist” out on this! Gives me hope to one day be able to tackle The Stormlight Archive when I ever get around to it!