My sister recommended Mistborn when I was like 11. I laughed and declined because it looked "Asian" or something dumb like that. A few years later I found Way of Kings at my school library and was intrigued by its length as much as the back cover blurb. I read it in like two days and when I talked to my sister about it, she laughed and told me that the author was the same person who wrote Mistborn! I reluctantly read it, loved it, and have been hooked ever since.