Yesterday I finished reading The Hero of Ages, and what a Sanderlanche it was! I loved it! If Sazed was my favorite character before, he's even more so now!
My wife was one of the people who most strongly recommended the series to me (she's read Era 1 and The Rithmatist so far). While I was reading the last three chapters from THoA out loud, she was reacting along the way. It was so much fun!
We plan to read The Eleventh Metal before diving deeper into the Cosmere, but our main question is whether we should read Mistborn: Secret History now or wait until Era 2. A friend of ours mentioned that we could read it partially to avoid Era 2 spoilers and read the rest later. I was originally planning to wait until halfway through Era 2, but we were told that certain elements hit much better while Era 1 is still fresh in mind, so I'm not sure what to do.
After deciding on that (and reading it or not), up next would be The Rithmatist and Elantris (along with its short stories, The Hope of Elantris and The Emperor's Soul) as a "palate cleanser" before heading into Mistborn Era 2.
Does this sound like a good plan? What do you think about reading Secret History? Should we read it partially now or in full later?