Reviews tagging 'Classism'

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

64 reviews

caskraft's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Grief, Body horror, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Infidelity, Death of parent, Child death, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

alba_marie's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Classism, and Death

Moderate: War and Sexual assault

rkeith94's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

risaleel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Slavery, War, Violence, Classism, Physical abuse, Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Torture, and Trafficking

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Abandonment, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

louisallama's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

While I did enjoy this book, and I feel like the ending elevated it from three stars to three and a half stars, I think that it really would have benefited from losing about a hundred pages. 640 pages was just too long and while there was stuff happening the whole time, the book still felt slow paced. Not a specific hundred pages, I just don't think that we needed to see everything in such detail.
I did enjoy the ending, I thought it was a rather satisfying conclusion. I'm not sure Brandon Sanderson is the author for me though, because I personally find his writing very 'telling rather than showing' and while I don't always need a lot of flowery descriptions and deep character introspection, again, 640 pages is a lot to just be told what is happening. If you like books where you just turn your brain off and have the story happen at you, then you'll like this book.
And while I definitely didn't predict all of the plot twists, the one about

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the Lord Ruler not being the one who wrote the logbook

was kind of obvious by the time it was revealed.
Also the extreme amount of parallels between

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this book and Brandon Sanderson's own Steelheart

just made me kind of mad.

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At the end it felt like I'd just read the same book in a different font.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Hate crime, Abandonment, Classism, Genocide, and Slavery

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Rape, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Murder, War, and Death of parent

The 16 year old main character gets into a relationship with

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a man who is 4-5 years older than her and is a member of the class that oppresses her

imskylow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Brandon Sanderson cannot go wrong. I can see how he gained his fame from this book what a wild ride with such an interesting magic system. I was not at all expecting the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Classism, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Child abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Racism

Minor: Kidnapping, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Rape

a_libraryghost's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I’m not usually a fan of the heist genre but this gripped me pretty quickly. Despite having a fair amount of characters each of them were unique and has their own personalities making them easy to tell apart and all of them were likeable. This would probably be a five star if it wasn’t for the ending. It wasn’t all bad but

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Vin having the ability to take out the lord ruler by herself felt a bit unearned and unbelievable

and in general the ending just felt a little out of place with the rest of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Slavery

Minor: Rape and Death of parent

hgshaw96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Classism, Murder, and Slavery

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, and War

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

brooketreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The magic system in Mistborn is very unique and interesting. At first though, I wasn’t to sure about it. I found it a little weird, but as Vin began to learn to use it I came around. The characters… well. Our two main characters Vin and Kelsier were fine. They had some great moments sprinkled throughout. I needed Vin to be stronger though. I mean I know she’s technically still a kid (17?), but dang, the harsh world she lives in and her boss… I needed more than just spending the majority of her time going to balls and spinning some political drama toward the end. My favorite character was Sazad. I hated how he seemed pushed to the background even though he was probably the strongest person (magically speaking). I felt he had an unfair shake of things from his religious(?)/ethnic(?) background to basically acting as the creed servant down to calling Vin “Mistress.” I also didn’t like that listening to the audiobook, I felt that the narrator was delivering a slight Asian accent. I may be completely wrong on this, but it felt insensitive. The rest of Kelsier’s crew fell flat for me. They just had no personalities, and I found myself confusing a couple of them a few times. I wanted to love Lord Ellend with that meet cute. But, then he fell just as flat as the crew. The Lord Rule was giving generic bad guy, because we basically didn’t even see him. He was just this looming power that needs to be ended. But, I needed to see it, not just hear about it. Finally, we arrive at the pacing. I found this so terribly long and slow I nearly DNFed. I feel like it didn’t really start to pick up until maybe 60ish percent. This may be a me problem, because someone said it’s high fantasy and building a complex world and magic system takes time. Maybe high fantasy just isn’t my thing. Since finishing the book, I have found myself wondering if it was the audiobook version that caused all my issues. Maybe I would have had a different outcome if I had read a physical copy for myself. At this point, I’m unsure that I will continue the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Classism

Minor: Rape

I listed rape under minor as there is only mention of rape. No scenes on page.