aseel_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Moderate: Confinement, Child death, Medical content, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Violence, War, Murder, Slavery, and Torture
fromjuliereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I absolutely adored Foundryside and while Shorefall had some pacing issues, it was still a great book. But this book. This finale. Absolutely fantastic.
It took me a little bit to get into because I read Shorefall about 2 years ago AND this book takes place 8 years after the end of Shorefall. As soon as I figured that out, I was fully invested. Getting back to these characters, this world. Robert Jackson Bennett writes such a complex world with one of the most unique magic systems I've ever encountered, and these complicated characters that you can't help but love. There were so many aspects to this finale that played out so perfectly. I laughed, I cried, and while I figured out one mystery, there was something in some final reveals that I didn't see comint at all. This is the kind of finale that I truly love.
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Child death, Blood, War, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Slavery, and Violence
Minor: Vomit, Torture, and Toxic relationship
Toxic familial relationships, self-sacrificeaileron's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Abandonment, Genocide, Slavery, War, and Confinement
laguerrelewis's review
- 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
Graphic: Death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Vomit, Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Slavery, and Torture
jjjreads's review
- 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
Graphic: Abandonment, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Slavery, Torture, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, and Drug use
fi_reads_books's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Genocide, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Grief, and Torture
Moderate: Slavery and Abandonment
bamboopandafy's review against another edition
- 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
Every time I think it has to be ending, has to get better, things get more dire.
This series has made me live and die at the same time. I CANNOT!
But this last book is the one that drove the dagger home.
The despair of it all. The struggle to be the one left standing at the end.
And the heartbreak I experienced at the end of it all.
If not for the fact that I was out in public, I would have cried.
I fear that I’m making no sense, so I will leave it at that.
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Murder
Minor: Violence, Slavery, and War
rinku's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Spoiler
reset the world to make a better one, our characters working together with the enemy who’s not so bad after all, and our characters leading the villain to the holy artefact aka the doorSpoiler
glitched the world became after the door was openedSpoiler
Tevanne/Valeria was Clef’s wife. This family drama just took up too much space for my tasteSpoiler
because literally every character we followed in the course of the story is gone or dead: Orso, Gregor, Clef, Sancia, and even Berenice – this was so unsatisfying, and I was wondering why I even followed them through over 1500 pages when it was all for nothing. It made me so mad how Berenice didn’t even get the chance to say goodbye to Sancia after she sacrifices herself. Furthermore, the epilogue also made me feel only more miserably since we see how much has changed – for the worse. Berenice can’t be part of any of the hiveminds anymore and this leads to her being completely lonely and even Gregor leaving her which just seems out of character for him. She then goes to Sancia to the parallel world and is hence gone from the world as well which was just depressing. I hated everything about this; yes, Tevanne was irreversibly destroyed and things can’t always the same, but I just wished that we ended like we began book two with our characters having their own trading house and a good timeGraphic: Death, Child death, War, and Child abuse
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Violence
Minor: Confinement and Grief
rossandhissandwich's review
4.0
Graphic: Death, Slavery, Child death, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Grief
caidyn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: War, Blood, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Grief