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Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

28 reviews

giulianalb99's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

Creo que ha llegado un punto en mi vida en el que Brandon Sanderson se ha vuelto uno de mis escritores favoritos y es incapaz que me decepcione. 
En este libro se nos presenta una magia súper peculiar, y es que la magia viene de los alientos de los dioses por los colores. Menuda imaginación hay que tener para hacer algo así, tan original e inusual. 

Sinopsis:
En el reino norteño de Idris su monarca se ha visto obligado a llegar a un acuerdo para garantizar la paz por el que se compromete casar a su hija con el rey-dios de su enemigo ancestral, el reino de Hallandren. Sin embargo en el último momento el rey Dedelin se ve incapaz de enviar a su amada primogénita, Vivenna, y manda en su lugar a su revoltosa e independiente hija menor, Siri. Esto trastocará para siempre la inestable situación entre los dos reinos y convertirá a Siri en la pieza clave para evitar la guerra.

Los personajes me han parecido muy buenos, y me encanta que cada capítulo tenga perspectivas distintas. Creo que el único punto en contra ha sido Vivenna, porque no es hasta el final que me empieza (tampoco mucho) a caer bien. Me ha parecido un personaje un poco insoportable y sus capítulos se me han hecho eternos. La evolución de todos me ha encantado.

Mi opinión sincera es que el libro está muy bien, pero hay partes que se me han hecho un poco pesadas. Elantris, otro libro del Cosmere, me pareció mucho mejor y siento que conecté más con esos personajes que con estos. Como siempre, los libros de Sanderson son bastante densos y con mucham
 religión de por medio, pero las 100 últimas páginas siempre son una maravilla (básicamente porque los desenlaces de sus libros son apoteósicos).
Obviamente seguiré leyendo a este señor (porque a este paso me voy a leer hasta su lista de la compra y me va a encantar), y no puedo esperar más a leer todos los libros del Cosmere💫

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Sexual content, Torture, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape and Pregnancy

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

3.75

Iniziato per l'esplorazione del rapporto fra sorelle, rimasta per Lightsong.

Solo lui poteva farmi impazzire con millemila teorie sulla sua identità, per poi deludermi completamente e nemmeno 2 minuti dopo farmi singhiozzare. Tivibi lightsong mi mancherai fortissimo.

 

Vivenna e Siri mi hanno fatto ammattire singolarmente, con le loro crisi esistenziali, ma Sanderson mi ha fatto ammattire ancora di più quando mi ha dato una scena con un abbraccio striminzito per quello che a parer mio doveva essere uno dei momenti clue della storia: Siri e Vivenna riunite. Sono tutt'ora molto perplessa sulla mancanza di dialogo rilevante tra le due.

Applausi per il sistema magico, molto semplice ma intrigante allo stesso tempo. Devo dire che è stato molto frustrante non ricevere informazioni concrete a riguardo fino a metà storia inoltrata, ma è stato decisamente appagante alla fine.

Vasher, Vasher, Vasher... unico motivo per cui mi dispiace che warbreaker sia uno stand-alone. Confido in una qualche novella per rivederti. 

Ancora una volta mi ritrovo confusa dalla dicotomia dell'autore con i personaggi femminili.
Sanderson con Vivenna: uno dei migliori archi narrativi per quanto riguarda l'evoluzione del personaggio
Sanderson con Blushweaver: she breasted boobily 
NON CAPISCOOO LE SKILLS LE HAI PERCHÈ MI CROLLI COSÌ. 
Capisco che è un personaggio il cui fronte si basa sull'usare il suo corpo per manipolare la gente attorno a sè, ma la cosa era stata già ben stabilita all'inizio. Era davvero necessario descrivere il suo seno a ogni sua comparsa? Non penso proprio. 

Detto questo, continuerò imperterrita la mia esplorazione del cosmere. Prossima tappa: Elantris. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, and Colonisation

chris_reads's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Blood, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gore, Rape, Torture, Vomit, and Trafficking

aam923's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Rape, and Forced institutionalization

oldladysadie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

This was one of the harder Cosmere novels for me to get through. I had a personally difficult time with the systemic misogyny leveled at Siri through most of the book, particularly

having her hymen checked for virginity without her consent, the nightly humiliation being made to strip down and be a sex object for Susebron, and the repeated title of “Vessel” instead of Queen because she’s treated as more of an incubator than a person

. I also wish we learned the magic system earlier on, and had a hard time empathizing with Vivenna at times. This book did ultimately enhance some other moments in The Stormlight Archive for me, though, so I’m ultimately glad to have finished it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Torture, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

imbored_soillread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content

cookiecat73's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Child death, Grief, and Gaslighting

iono's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

jswecu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

slayed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, and Pregnancy

ldorina's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.75

The short review: In my opinion the best thing about Warbreaker is that it brings us an incredibly detailed and lively fantasy world with a mind blowing magic system you've probably never seen before and a lot of discussion about religion without taking sides. It also has a cast of realistic lovable characters and some interesting relationships (though it's true that there are some tropes too). Brandon Sanderson does a solid job with character development, as well. For the most part, there isn't much action in the book but the plot is compelling enough to keep reading. However, it's obvious that characters and worldbuilding are the stronger elements of the novel. I think there's room for a sequel but Warbreaker is great as a stand-alone.

And now let's get into the indepth review. Warning: SPOILERS ahead for the rest of the review!

We start with a prologue that features Vasher, one of the secondary characters, after he has got himself thrown into prison. I think it's an excellent opening because:
1. The reader gets immersed in the story right away as they get to know the arguably most interesting and mysterious character who is also in the middle of an action that brings up the question: 'What is his motive?' And of course there is Nightblood, the talking sword that can kill without being completely pulled from its sheet, so we keep reading.
2. It introduces the magic system which is the key element of the whole book and in the first 11 pages we learn the basics of how it works.
3. There's some action too keep us interested.
4. We don't know it at this point but the title 'Warbreaker' refers to the name Vasher was given when he returned (Warbreaker the Peaceful) so it's fitting that the book starts and ends with him as a way of framing the story.

In the first chapter we get to know the two main characters, Siri and Vivenna, the sisters from the royal family of Idris (and also their father, the king). The fact that these two girls are basically yin and yang is clear from the beginning, they are like Arya and Sansa Stark from GoT, with Siri being the adventurous younger princess who likes to be out in nature, talking to common people and causing her father a great deal of trouble by being rebellious, skipping her classes, shitting at propriety and not controlling herself at all. On the otherhand there's Vivenna, the older, more mature, calmer sister, who - unlike Siri - was born to be a queen and is responsible enough to try to live up to the task from early childhood by obeying her father's commands, studying hard and respecting the 'rules' at all times. The difference is visible just by looking at the hair of these two. Thanks to the royal locks, that show how a person is feeling if they don't focus on regulating the color (great piece of world-building by the way), Siri's hair color is always changing, letting the people around her know about her mood, while Vivenna's stay the same modest dark brown.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail