Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

14 reviews

rynaissanceenby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

Iove the way Sanderson's writing enthralls me and compels me to read faster and faster, desperate to find out what will happen next. This book is also no exception to his talent for adeptly placing a twist right at the end of a book such that it doesn't end how you were expecting at all. Unfortunately, it's also not an exception to my disappointment in his ability to write female characters. At any rate, I can't wait to read the conclusion of this trilogy!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse, Self harm, and Classism

serena_hien's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

wharj's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Definitely takes a while to get going, but great stuff in here!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death of parent

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Self harm, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

mkaiww's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

The middle of the book drags and I was planning on taking a break from the series after this book but after the ending I was permanently hooked on the cosmere

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Dysphoria

nflamel's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious tense 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? No

5.0

Screaming, crying, throwing up, howling! I CAN’T! The ending is just so AUGH!! Im so angry and excited for the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Rape, Slavery, and Abandonment

jodean's review

adventurous inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Brandon Sanderson is excellent at writing about hope and good people. And also making those good people suffer. 

<Spoiler>I love Sazed so much and how dare you hurt him so. 
I hated Zane, as a person and a character. His toll on Vin was difficult to read and went nowhere. The constant insistence on things he couldn't have known about was frustrating. 
The ending left me slack jawed. I'm still in shock. It's the perfect antagonist to these characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Gore, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Slavery, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-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? Yes

4.0

I really liked this a lot but God, was it slow and long. If it wasn't for that, the plot was super interesting and intricate and the world was well built 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Classism

angstifies'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

i will admit i wasn’t the biggest fan of book one so i’m being 100% serious when i say i wasn’t expecting to enjoy this one as much as i did. 

fantastic sequel, the themes in here were much more interesting to me than those of book one (probably why i liked it better) and i could definitely tell Sanderson’s writing got much better here, especially when it comes to writing his characters, even if i do wish we got to see more of some characters who were basically neglected (Clubs, DOX???). 

i love love love the politics and the whole mystery revolving around the mists and the well of ascension was really engaging, this world is so so interesting. and that ENDING. cannot wait to read the sequel!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Rape, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Gore, Sexism, Slavery, and Death of parent