Once I accepted that the book was not going to be that great, I had a fun time with it. It feels very much like discount Sanderson - lots of action, lots of magic, utilitarian prose. I don't remember too well how Mistborn read, but I would say overall that the writing is a bit lower level than that. There's not too much character development, but there are giant magic swords.

The setting doesn't get a change to grow much by itself - there's a forest, there's a city, but there's no real sense of geography. The territories are interesting, but they're also all over the place. It feels like Wight is throwing everything against the wall to see what will stick, but not delving too deeply into any particular element. There are too many monsters that appear once, too many characters with derivative names and no development.

All of that said, after the slow first 25% of the book, I had a good time. I'll read the rest of the series (especially at the price!), but fully acknowledging the appeal is essentially a novel-form JRPG.