Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

84 reviews

cosmere_considered's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

My Fair Lady meets Oceans 11 during the French Reign of Terror. Also the power and abuses of religion is discussed in not so subtly ways - so unsubtle in fact you don’t even think about it as a message, just as part of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Sexual assault

ctara2123's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture

dollarsignimp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Classism

loudmouthbooklover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

There was a lot of world building, but I did love the characters in this book and it made me hate characters too. But all in all it was a fun time. Be prepared to get a lot of information to digest but by the end love every second of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Genocide, Torture, and War

nikkihill22's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.75

i really liked the plot and characters of this book. i hated the pacing of it. i cant decide if i hate the pacing of it more as a stand alone, or more as the first part of a trilogy. i listened to the audiobook, which i think was majorly helpful in finishing the book. the chapters are very long, which i don't mind in audio format, but if i were reading a physical book i think it would have been difficult to convince myself to pick it up as i typically like to make sure i have enough time to read at least one chapter any time i sit down to read. The audiobook was nearly 25 hours long (no complaints about long books, i love big books), and for whatever reason, the last 30 minutes of it were an epilogue? this makes me think the book was written as if it may never get a sequel. because a 25 hour book with a 29 hour sequel and a 27.5 hour sequel after that one in no way shape or form needs a 30 minute epilogue.

But the characters were utterly charming, i definitely started and ended the book for them, and i'm so excited to see where they go in the rest of the story. My one complaint about characterization is about the minor romance in the book, i don't fully understand why the character we follow falls in love with someone as quickly as they do, but love is love and it happens like that sometimes i suppose. I just don't think this character would have necessarily.

Sometimes i like to play "spot the mormon" when i read a book by a mormon author, and i definitely think you can find Sanderson's mormon background all throughout this book, especially with the log book entries and the Lord Ruler, as well as some of the importance stressed around family structures. But it wasn't quite as bad as some other mormon authors' works are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

glscherz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

teyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Body horror and Rape

naomi_k's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

lindseychastain's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

Okay Brandon Sanderson fans, I get it. A lot of people told me I would love this book, and I did. I’m actually glad I went in knowing nothing about the content of this book, I think I enjoyed it more because of that.

I think the thing about this book that I loved so much is that it was really… accessible. It’s not like a lot of high fantasy that is overly indulgent and so much world building that you get lost in it. It’s really an excellent balance of magic/world building and just good street telling. 

Lots of standard tropes here, which is definitely cool with me. But gosh, the characters were all so lovable. I love Vin so much. 

This is part of trilogy but it works really well as a stand alone as well, if I felt I needed to leave it here. I will continue the series, but I don’t feel compelled to dive right back into it. I kinda like that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Abandonment, and War

madelineeva's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Child death and Death of parent