People may read my list of cons and think "if you take away prose, dialogue, and characters, what's left?", and my response would be "not much." This is one of those points that I'm a self-admitted curmudgeon on, but I think Sanderson is one of the most overrated fantasy authors out there. That said, I did enjoy those Mistborn books (particularly the latter three), and I haven't yet dipped my toe into the Stormlight Archives, so it's probably just me being curmudgeonly. (But why read Sanderson when you (not you, Rascally Badger, you the general reader) could be reading the first two books of The Locked Tomb Trilogy or Piraensi, three books I recently read and loved!)