What a relief this book was. I read Brandon Sanderson's first book, Elantris, back in Alaska and I thought it was pretty amateurish. When I heard he was the author that would be finishing Robert Jordan's last Wheel of Time novel, I got worried. Luckily, with Mistborn: The Final Empire, he has laid my fears to rest.

Here is an example of his ability to write a complex world with an intricate magical system, more than a handful of characters working on several plot lines at once, and not drop the ball with a deus ex machina. I've already picked up book two and will most likely finish it soon.