Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

116 reviews

spillwoman's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This series excels at dissecting the complex relationship between evidence and faith. Faced with the end of the world, we see how every character questions their roles, and works through what being a hero means to them. It has a lot of dark themes, and is definitely deep thought stirring, but it did get a bit repetitive by the end. With many of the characters having gone through a lot of character development in the earlier books, there wasn't much further for them to go. This made the focus of the few remaining characters' growth a little too in your face and kind of stale by the end. The characters are very lovable, but I kept hoping to have everyone in the same place again (I wanted my crew back together!). Definitely a good series, but I'm excited to see how Sanderson grows as an author in his later series of the Cosmere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Religious bigotry

lyssahannah_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, and Violence

emma_rose_skapetis's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

alphabetseeds's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

An incredibly bittersweet conclusion, but this is one of my favorites and will retain a fond spot on my internal Cosmere works tier list. 

This is Sazed's and Spook's book, their opportunities to go through character arcs that were only teased in The Final Empire and are well concluded and well earned in this final novel in Mistborn era 1. You learn so much more about the world and magic system at large, more about the Shards that built everything, without it getting bogged down with exposition or more details than you need.

Stormlight might be (is) Sanderson's magnum opus, but that series owes a lot to how well Mistborn era 1 is plotted, structured, and executed. And these foundations set in this first grouping of Mistborn novels can help inform how some situations could/do play out in other works (looking at you, Dalinar).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

gabselles's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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: Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

finnifinn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Torture, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

mice_are_nice's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Child death and Domestic abuse

jayrawd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gore, Violence, and War

lucyreads7's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

I enjoyed the different perspectives we got in this book to see each characters arc be completed. The reveal of breadcrumbs planted from book 1 was exciting. The ending left me weeping, but filled with hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Genocide

jawclencher's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Suicide, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death