Mike

I chose Mistborn as my starting point for reading the Cosmere, and I'd never read any Sanderson before so I wasn't sure what to expect. The first third is a little slow with heavy world building, but after that it really starts to move. Overall I really enjoyed it. The world is interesting and the story being told in it is equally compelling. The ending is satisfying if you only want to read the first book but leaves things open enough to set up the rest of the trilogy.

My only real complaint is that it's one of the most dense books I've read from a sheer words per page standpoint. The formatting in my edition (box set paperbacks) made me feel like I was reading very slowly. I'm not sure if it's purely the formatting or something about Sanderson's writing style, but progress felt slow. That's not necessarily a negative, just something to keep in mind if you're expecting to breeze through it.