The Final Empire

Started strong, slow in parts, end was an exciting rush.

For a book about a female protagonist, it doesn't pass the Bechdel test- which kind of tells you Sanderson doesn't know how to write women. Vin is more well written than the protagonist woman in Elantris (who is TALL and NOT LIKE THE OTHER WOMEN), but if that's the only woman he can write in a book that is hundreds of pages long, he doesn't know how to write women. He's not the only fantasy writer who struggles with this, but it is the 21st century.

But the magic is interesting. I'll give the next book a try.