[Auracle]

I find the original Mistborn trilogy to be YA-adjacent. You’re never going to get prose like Lord of the Rings out of Sanderson, but if you ever feel like reading more of his work try The Stormlight Archive. It’s his most serious work, for lack of a better word.

Part of the fun is that all of his books interconnect, even though they take place on different worlds with different-but-same magic systems.

If you’re not sure if you want to commit to more, I’d his novella The Emperor’s Soul.