Okay, I'm not quite done with the book yet, (Stupid freaking real life and such) but one thing definitely made me laugh in a rather twisted sort of way. I have to post about it now, as it'll get lost in whatever post I make when I do finish.
Sanderson finally killed Brill. He wanted to kill the guy in the armies caverns in book one, alpha readers thought it was to cruel for Kelsier to do, so he changed it. But he finally did it here. Man, did Sanderson grow up with a bully named Brill or something? Oddly enough, I did, so I got some twisted amusement out of the whole situation.
Whoops, an edit because I don't want to double post, yet I want to make a separate post about my feelings on the ending of the book. Okay, Preservation/Laras was using the Mists to cause Snappings in order to give humans an edge. It snapped exactly sixteen percent of people, ostensibly 1% per each metal. But uh.... Atium didn't fit in with the overall table of metals. It's not one of the sixteen, it's an alloyable god metal outside of the normal rules. (I was always suspicious of this metal, since it didn't fit in with the periodic table. Cool to see that nagging annoyance bear some nutty fruit.) Anyway, what's going on here with this numbers game?