DNF because I don't want to waste my precious reading time 
 It's not you, Sanderson, it's me... 
 Actually, you know what? It's you. You and the hundreds of readers who are head over heels in love with Mistborn and with Brandon Sanderson's books in general. I came here expecting so much! It's a heist story, after all! 
 Everyone's been telling me "Ioana, you've never read a Sanderson novel? Like, never? And you call yourself a fantasy lover? OMG, Ioana, you need to read Mistborn!". I tried, okay? I have no problem with books that start out slow-paced, but I read a quarter of this book and nothing happened at all. Around page 50, they discuss this heist of theirs. The following pages are nothing but the crew doing exactly what they said they'd be doing! Hardly anything goes wrong! 
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 Don't even get me started about the characters. All of them (including your dear, sweet Kelsier) are cardboard cutouts. Breeze, Clubs, Ham and Dockson get no backstory, no nothing. I know the writer wanted Vin to have trust issues, but seriously, the whole thing seems so damn fake! In the beginning, she doesn't even drink what somebody else offers her, and the next second she completely forgets about that and she's extremely reckless. I couldn't get myself to like her, not even to understand her. I didn't even like Kelsier, whose character was probably purposefully written to be loved by anyone. Kelsier is just so... bland. I can't even think about two words to describe him. 
 The writing was terrible and I couldn't stand it. It was repetitive (I was so done with people "frowning" or "raising an eyebrow" and with Kelsier "chuckling" before he speaks). Anyone else remarked how often "a kind of"/"some kind of" was used? That kept bothering me. 
 Now finally, the magic system that everyone adores and praises... It didn't work for me. Everytime these people used their powers, I felt like was in the middle of some RPG video game: Press X to burn copper!. I thought it made no sense. Okay, you can have your specials, the Mistings, who have one power, but there's also the special specials, the Mistborns, who are so awesome that everyone ignores them in the sreets. These guys can do anything. No limits. How cool. 
 This may sound as a blasphemy, but Six of Crows is ten times better. Also, if you want to read a book with a really clever and beautifully written magic system, try A Wizard of Earthsea . Again, ten times better than this one. I'm sorry we didn't work out. I really am. Maybe one day I'll give Sanderson another try.