Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson

7 reviews

kassidyreads's review

adventurous emotional funny tense 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4
Characters: 4.5 stars
Plot: 4 stars
Worldbuilding: 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Grief and Confinement

Minor: Suicide

dkgreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

I don’t know how he does it. I’ve admitted that I’ve not been terribly invested in Era 2 from the beginning. Sure, the first three books were entertaining, but I felt like they were missing. . .something. So please explain to me how this book made me CRY SO HARD, I gave myself a headache? Ugh. Sanderson, the evil genius. This was definitely my favorite of the Era 2 books, probably because it opened up a whole can of worms and questions about the cosmere and not because it somehow sneak attacked my heart and Shattered it like Adonalsium.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Death, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

laurajeangrace's review

adventurous emotional funny medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Gore, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide

massivepizzacrust's review

adventurous emotional 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? No

3.5

This rating honestly feels blasphemous. 

The meta developments in this book blew my mind. The crossover are starting for real... and it was fun matching side characters with other series and drawing connections. The Harmony epilogue... intriguing and worrying. I'll definitely keep following along. 

That being said... I kinda found myself trudging through this book for the first two thirds. And I found the end less impactful than the end of the first Mistborn trilogy, which was disappointing. I expected tears and mind blowing but it just felt pretty lighthearted. There was never really a point in the plot where I couldn't see the characters succeeding and I feel like that's pretty integral to a Sanderson plot. I'm also not sure we really needed four different povs, balanced the way they were, because we ended up spending little time with anyone in particular and maybe that's why I didn't feel connected to any of the characters as much as I wanted to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Racism, and Xenophobia

caidyn's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-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? Yes

4.5

Sanderson did it again. I definitely think that the second era isn't as good as the first, but this book? Spectacular. I ended up crying (which I didn't expect) and enjoyed the ending. I was not expecting some of the things that happened and I really can't wait to see where era three goes!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Confinement

Minor: Kidnapping

tamaraniac's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The reveals were good, I cried, I cheered for Steris, I had to do a lot of lore reading and thinking right when I finished. There are things I wish had been more addressed, but overall I’m hype for Era 3! (Also unpopular opinion maybe but I will miss Wax dearly)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Gun violence, and Confinement

References to gassing of prisoners