Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

112 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

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

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

isitcertain's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, War, Blood, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

 

The Mistborn trilogy has dystopian world building, magic, interesting characters that you either love or love to hate, and a fast-paced plot. There are no dragons, fae, or shapeshifters. But there are Allomancers aka people who can burn metals to gain superhuman abilities. 

 

The story can be summed up as one giant heist to destroy the evil, immortal Lord Ruler and free the Skaa from the abusive nobles once and for all. Of course there are obstacles to overcome, magical duels to fight, court politics to play, and ultimately, the small feat of figuring out how to actually kill the Lord Ruler. 

 

My small grievance is the almost laughable “romantic” relationship and the absolute lack of spice. Don’t get me wrong, I very much appreciated that the heroine was a badass, strong, and resourceful woman who don’t need no man. But damn, it was more vanilla than vanilla. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Grief and Slavery

meowster18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? No

5.0

This took me so long to finish because I wanted to savor this story. I can’t wait to continue the series. Vin, street skaa, thief, and a loner, found herself in the presence of a man that aspired to rattle the very foundation of the kingdom. Kelsier, crew leader, idealist, and survivor, vowed to free the oppressed skaa from The Lord Ruler. In Mistborn you follow Vin, Kelsier, and the crew in their elaborate plan to overthrow the ruler of the land. 

The plot and character development is well crafted and beautifully blended. A beautiful found family story. The magic system is fantastic and simple. I strongly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death of parent, War, Death, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

fin_pilot's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Death, Slavery, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Blood, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault