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Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

295 reviews

teyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Body horror and Rape

naomi_k's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

kay_simmons's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

If you’re looking to read high fantasy, please read this book! I’m at a loss of words and I don’t know how else to say how GOOD this book is. Very well written! It did feel like it was slow in a few areas and I understand why. The world building, the characters, found family, power, conflicts, action and gore. Such a great descriptive book, it was like watching a movie than reading. Although, it took me a little longer than normal to read, I could not stop thinking about it. What’s great about this book to is how little you could even theorize about what would happen. Even though he gave SO much information there was always something that made you have to rethink your theory that you didn’t know what to expect. Brava brava!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Murder

stardewrally's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence and Violence

Minor: Rape

lizcallahan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

Am I so behind on this train? Yes. Am I screaming, crying, and throwing up by how good this book was????! Also yes. I'm on the Brandon Sanderson train now.

On a real note, Brandon knows how to make a magic system and really embed it into the daily systems of the world. Truly some prolific world building, and I cannot wait to read more ❤️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Slavery, Violence, and War

lanid's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Torture, and War

madelineeva's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

khymihr's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Abandonment

Minor: Child death

mkaiww's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

My first Brandon Sanderson book and I ended up reading the entire cosmere up to that point back to back

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and War

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Rape, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Additional cw for religious abuse

shlymiller's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail