I have to say that I like his work on the Writing Excuses podcast far, far more than I like the rest of his work. I've bounced off of the Mistborn trilogy, and read Warbreaker all the way through because he was doing a couple of things that I almost never see done, i.e. having the girl in the arranged marriage not be all "OMG MUST RUN AWAY" and having her sister who was *supposed* to be in the arranged marriage and was raised to be so run away *towards* the marriage so as to save her sister by replacing her.

Was not impressed by the magic system, but OTOH I don't particularly like non-numinous magic in books, so YMMV.