Kelsier has just escaped from the harshest prison in the Empire, and he's determined to get revenge--and for him, revenge means killing the Lord Ruler, and destroying the Final Empire. Kelsier is a Mistborn--one who can draw power from different metals--and his rare abilities mean that he might be able to pull off his plan. Then he meets Vin, a common thief who shows Mistborn abilities of her own, and suddenly their crew has a real chance at success.
I've had half a dozen people tell me to read this series, and after Warbreaker, I was only too happy to dive back into Sanderson's writing. This story starts out as a crime novel--you have the different players in the crew, and each one has a role to play in what may be the biggest scam in history. But as the book moves along, and twist after twist interferes with the plan, it becomes a really complex story about loyalty and class issues. The world-building is amazing: a thousand years after a legendary battle between the immortal Lord Ruler and the mysterious Deepness, the sky is red, ashes fall like rain, and no one can see the stars. But there is allomancy--the ability to consume a few specific types of metal, and "burn" them for their magical properties (manipulating emotions, moving objects towards, and seeing the future, to name a few). Reading Vin's education in allomancy was half the fun of this book.
The characters are wonderfully drawn, the funny parts are funny, and the scary parts are really, really scary (I had nightmares about the Steel Inquisitors towards the end of this book). As he did in Warbreaker, Sanderson plays with the idea of divinity: what does it take for a man to be worshipped as a god? What would that do to a person? Of course, there's more to it than that, and there are plenty of loose ends to lead into the next novel (already on request).
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