Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

27 reviews

mgagermeier's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Cannibalism

dragonbornsandwaffles's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

It lulls for the first third of the book or so while he's worldbuilding, but once things started to pick up, I quickly couldn't put it down. It's a very intense gritty fantasy (see content warnings for details - it's...a lot), and the characterization is so good that they feel like old friends. It does have a shock twist at the end, so if you don't like those, I'd stay away. It made me absolutely bawl like a baby for a good hour after I finished it. Fantastic book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

maulikki's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

The whole time reading this book I had a sense of regret for not finding this when I was in my most active reading years, around 12 or 13. It would've made a larger impact of me, even as I think as an adult I can definitely get more out of it now than I would've as a teenager. I see why this has been recommended to me, the book and the storytelling felt real in a way I seldom encounter. Of course it's very subjective, and I understand why to someone this might fall into the "yet another female protagonist's adventure with magic and learning lessons" category of books saturated with the ACOTAR-like books many of us don't enjoy in the slightest. This books has the it factor of fantasy books. No idea how to describe how and why, someone way smarter than me has probably put it in words somewhere on the internet. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hamstringy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

still holds up after 8 years

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

handful_of_frogs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

boglord's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring 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: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death and Vomit

elleisntabell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

 Oh my god! I'm so happy I finally got around to reading this. It took me forever, but it was definitely worth it. This review goes out to my friend who is a massive Sanderson fan and finally convinced me to read this.

UMM... I don't have wordssssss for the ending of this book. THe entire 5th part was a masterpiece. I'm mad at how good it was. I'm still screaming honestly.

There was a chunk of the middle that was kinda a slog, but that might have been my mindspace? I wasn't really in a good place while I was reading that. That part is why I'm not sure about my 5 star rating, but I feel like a reread would definitely confirm the book as 5 stars.

Possibly my favorite part of the book were the little interludes from the logbook before every chapter. I'm going to be thinking about those for a LONG time.

SAZE my love <3 you are my favorite character I love you so much. I just felt the need to put that in. I love that man. (Most of the characters were great. Obviously I love Vin and Elend too. And Dox and Ham and Marsh. I think you get it.)

The more I write the more I feel good about a 5 star rating. Jesus this book was amazing.
(´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)ヾ(≧ ▽ ≦)ゝ

 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Body horror, Child death, and Alcohol