Warbreaker

Sanderson has written a few books that are in the top of fantasy charts and they are truly outstanding, deserving the praise and hype. But...

How the hell is this book more popular than Elantris?! Elantris is great! If this wasn't Sanderson I would've dropped it long time ago. Except for Lightsong's humor and that black sword there's nothing interesting here. The plot crawls for the first 300 pages and the rest isn't much better.

Main characters are boring and dumb. Vivenna is Mary Sue with zero character development until 400th page. Four hundredth!!! The only interesting thing about Siri's chapters were the late night talks.
Magic is barely used and it's not even that interesting. Original, sure. But underutilized. I know this is his second published book but in reality it was like 6th or 8th he had written and yet he's explaining how magic works on 500th page out of 650!