Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

295 reviews

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

eveningreverie's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

4.5

White boys writing fantasy that absolutely slaps. What can you do?

Jokes aside, I get it. I get the hype for Sanderson. I get why his writing resonates with so many. It’s the perfect blend of showing and telling, the perfect amount of scenic detail without getting bogged down, the perfect way to describe action scenes. It’s the blueprint for basically every great fantasy book or fanfiction I’ve ever read. I can feel the Sanderson of it all after reading Mistborn. It’s great YA, even though I’d love a little bit more in terms of word choice and literary dressings. I don’t know how quickly I’ll continue the series, but this was absolutely the fastest I’ve breezed through a 600+ page book in a very long time. This snapped. It crackled. It popped. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, and War

shamaramill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent

solypoly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

This book had me staying up until 3am to finish it despite having work in the morning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and War

lydsgrace99's review

adventurous dark hopeful 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: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

jahnadv's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, War, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Abandonment

rnbhargava's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

I quite enjoyed this book throughout. It’s fairly well thought out. It’s not perfect as many have suggested it is. However the characterizations and a good portion of the world building is done really well. These characters already are very memorable to me. I honestly can’t wait to get to the rest of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

There are references to the potential for SA throughout the book. Also, there’s literal references and allusions to slavery and the types of work involved in real life slavery also happening in this fictional world. The nobles are also quite misogynistic at times.

kenina's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

I'm a fantasy lover, and this is definitely a highlight. There is a lot of physical abuse, war, abandonment and death, as well as gore. The tropes I listed above are quite graphic as well. Overall this book as amazing, and a definite 4.5 stars, and the reason it's not a five star is because I'm used to high stakes, fast paced books such as Percy Jackson. But overall a great read for a rainy day and you've nothing better to do 😁

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and War

vadouglas's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder