So second book of the series and I think in certain respect it is better than the first one. However it is not a book I would go back and read again. It is a nice read when you read it for the first time and then you forget about it. Just like the first book of the series there is hardly a paragraph you will ever look back to. The language is so plain it that kills the fun. At times I felt like putting the book down and start reading a new one. That was okay though, the biggest problem for me is that I am done with two books and still there is not a single character in the book I remotely care about. Vin is the main protagonist and whenever she is fighting I want her to win and I want her to kill everyone else. But when she is hurt there is no concern for her. That is with the most important character, how do you think things are with the other people? Sanderson doesn't make you care for the character. About 1400 pages in the story and the only character I remotely care about is Kelsier, and he died in the first book.
The second book has another feature which I found to be extremely irritating. I understand that he wants his reader to know what happened in the first book but dedicating one paragraph for every incidence that happened in the first book is way too much. Then there was this description of powers. He described all of them in his second book and yet in the second book every time Sazed uses Feruchemy he starts explaining how Feruchemy works. We get it Brandon, we got it the first time you explained it to us in the first book. And it was nice reading it in the first few chapters of second book but it was plainly irritating to read it every time someone uses it.
To be fair though, the book had some decent twists. A few instances which took by surprising. Nothing of the sort though where you go "Whoa, WTF happened there."
And despite what some say definitely not as good as A Song of Ice and Fire. In fact it compares no where to ASOIF in terms of complexity and intricacies.

So this was the first Sanderson book that I read and it came highly recommended by more than one friends. The book is okay. I liked it but there are certain things missing from the story (more on this later). The story in itself is great, the idea is fantastic. Burning metal and gaining power from them. I loved the idea. It is amazing in that sense, the whole world made up of Allomancers and Mistborns.
Now every great story needs a great story teller. Sadly I don't think Brandon Sanderson is that person. His writing lacks the grace and poises required in the language to write a epic. In the entire book there was not one single exchange between the characters which is worth remembering. Not one paragraph to which you would look back and think, 'wow that was some amazing writing'. My friends who have read both A Song of Ice and Fire and the Mistborn series are of the opinion that Mistborn is even better than the epic written by RR Martin. I cannot see how they say that. To me it makes no sense. Though Martin is slow he is awesome in his writing. Sanderson is fast and plain. Martin forces you to care for the character, so far I barely had any feelings for the protagonist of the novel.
In short I will say this, it is a good book, the idea behind it is brilliant, story is pretty good too. Just that it needed someone other than Sanderson to tell its story.

Aaaand that marks the end of all the books in Cosmere!
Have been dying to update that. Now we wait for Oathbringer!

The book had all the characteristic touches of Sanderson. A few were mesmerizing, some seemed a bit forced, quite a few had characters you want to fall in love with and yes each and every one of them had a new kind of magic.
When you think about it, it is insane that one person can come up with so many different kind of magic.

Ought to read this collection of stories if you are reading Cosmere!

Yeah I am kind of late for this one. But have never been huge fan of sci-fi. I work in science, so yes the irony is not lost on me. In any case, the book was interesting enough. Liked narration in some parts, not so much in other parts. Liked the beginning more than any other part of the book. And the way he invented how to become invisible. The ending was kind of sad, after all he died and death is rarely a pleasant business. (oh yeah this review has spoilers).

Was so so. Expected a bit more, specially from Lan's perspective. A few plot points were just left hanging, which was kinda sad. The whole thing in Tar Valon seemed a bit stretched. Could have concluded the whole thing in like 2-3 chapters.

Final verdict: You aren't missing anything from the series if you don't read this book. But given that you slogged through the SLOG, is it really all that much to read one small novella?