Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

20 reviews

aleyajo's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense

4.5

Yeehaw fantasy western let’s goooooo!

“You are what you choose to be, Waxillium”. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

jjamieww's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

After reading the first three books in the mistborn series, I ended up loving the world building and metal magic. 

I didn’t expect to like it as much when I found out it had entirely new characters as well as guns and steampunk kind of vibe (it’s just not my vibes) but was a great read! It was so interesting to see the world developed and powers evolving.

This book contained so many action scenes and the mysteries kept unfolding. I’m pumped to read the next one :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

dionysius_miller's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

lakinglaze's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Well this was fun! I throughly enjoyed this next phase of Mistborn. The characters are lovable, the world has changed so much, and the mystery is full throttle. I can’t wait to see what happens next! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

blythemind's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I’m sure there are people that would absolutely love this book. I’m just not particularly fond of stories set in industrial revolution time periods, and I really don’t enjoy books where the protagonist is a cop. TRIGGER WARNING:

while not depicted, the main motivation for Wax to save the women that have been abducted is that he finds out they are likely being sex trafficked. He does not find them in this book and it is implied they will be forcibly bred to produce Allomancers.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sh543's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

erynelle's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

kaimetcalfe's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Gore, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Trafficking

aseel_reads'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Always a big fan of what this man can do and I'm especially keen to see how he develops this fantasy society with modern technology and the different religions! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nat20charisma's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.75

Wild West heroes and villains meets steampunk. There are some great references to the first Mistborn trilogy; it’s so interesting to look at the same universe hundreds of years after the rebellion. 

I loved Wax and Wayne, but I wasn’t a huge fan of Marasi. I thought it was a little creepy that she was his super
fan and studied everything about him. And she wasn’t very interesting like Sanderson’s other female characters; she wanted to be in the action, but she was timid and scared of everything. I hope she gets some character development in the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Classism