Like most of Sanderson’s writing the Mistborn series does a lot of very midbrow storytelling and philosophizing, a lot of “compassion beats cruelty and don’t forget it”, but the thing he does so well is tell a great story with great characters in a great setting that never ceases to entertain.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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