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The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

293 reviews

cecebreze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Colonisation

blessedbamboo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Rape

mlawl9467's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

milenasbooknook's review

adventurous hopeful slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, and War

In the world in which this story takes place, it is common for noblemen to rape poorer women and then have them executed so they will not bear children. We don’t ever read about it as it’s happening, but it is discussed several times for the purpose of showing the evil in the empire.

j_nell's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-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? No

4.75

The audio version would be better if a female read it since the main protagonist is female. However the narrator did well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

josamawi's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Rape

courtofsmutandstuff's review

5.0

Even though my friends refused to confirm any of my predictions/answer my questions in advance, I really loved this book and begrudgingly guess they were right that it is better to just let Sanderson confirm all. My only complaint literally is there are not more women in it - it's essentially just Vin, and then one villainous woman and one dead woman. I absolutely love the world building, and while my friends are telling me to savor these books, I just want to devour them and know everything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bookboxbabe's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense slow-paced

• 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

5.0

i’m stressed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

cloverbeee's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

Good fantasy world-building with a unique magic system that is explained in depth. I've enjoyed the female POV characters written by Sanderson so far but I'm side-eyeing the repeat of 17 y/o girl with older man romantic pair. So far it's been in two out of three of the novels of his that I've read...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Rape, and Slavery

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Rape