With this book, Sanderson's considerable promise in Elantris is more than fulfilled. He takes his time with Mistborn, allowing his characters and the almost stifling atmosphere in which he dresses his story to envelop you. He is much more assured as a storyteller this time as well. Here we see Sanderson warming to the tropes he likes best - a special class of people who possess carefully defined magic abilities plucky heroines and roguish, devil-may-care heroes the role of religion in how civilizations develop - porting them over from Elantris and allowing their thematic possibilities to flower.
Brandon Sanderson matures remarkably in his second novel, a trilogy opener set in a land plagued by incessant volcanic ashfall and burdened by the millennia-long tyranny of its Lord Ruler, believed to be an embodiment of God himself.
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