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fromjuliereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I absolutely adored Foundryside and while Shorefall had some pacing issues, it was still a great book. But this book. This finale. Absolutely fantastic.
It took me a little bit to get into because I read Shorefall about 2 years ago AND this book takes place 8 years after the end of Shorefall. As soon as I figured that out, I was fully invested. Getting back to these characters, this world. Robert Jackson Bennett writes such a complex world with one of the most unique magic systems I've ever encountered, and these complicated characters that you can't help but love. There were so many aspects to this finale that played out so perfectly. I laughed, I cried, and while I figured out one mystery, there was something in some final reveals that I didn't see comint at all. This is the kind of finale that I truly love.
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Child death, Blood, War, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Slavery, and Violence
Minor: Vomit, Torture, and Toxic relationship
Toxic familial relationships, self-sacrificeaileron's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Abandonment, Genocide, Slavery, War, and Confinement
librarianmage's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Slavery and Death
Minor: Death of parent and Child death
laguerrelewis's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Vomit, Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Slavery, and Torture
jjjreads's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Abandonment, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Slavery, Torture, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, and Drug use
fi_reads_books's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Genocide, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Grief, and Torture
Moderate: Slavery and Abandonment
bamboopanda's review against another edition
- 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
Every time I think it has to be ending, has to get better, things get more dire.
This series has made me live and die at the same time. I CANNOT!
But this last book is the one that drove the dagger home.
The despair of it all. The struggle to be the one left standing at the end.
And the heartbreak I experienced at the end of it all.
If not for the fact that I was out in public, I would have cried.
I fear that I’m making no sense, so I will leave it at that.
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Murder
Minor: Violence, Slavery, and War
rinku's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Death, Child death, War, and Child abuse
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Violence
Minor: Confinement and Grief
idksamiguess's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Death and War
Moderate: Slavery, Child death, and Grief
lady_sharp's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This is a book about a lot of things. Heists, magic, despair, sacrifice, technology, heroes. But inundated through every thread, poured into every nook and cranny, is what it means to be alone and what it means to be connected. How terrified we are of being alone and how joyful it is to be together and the many obstacles, pains, rewards, and wonders in between How there are some things we can't fight, many things we can, and some that we never needed to fight at all.
The ending is one of the best I've ever read, bringing everything together for sweet and bitter, exploiting its premise to its fullest to tell you about these wonderful characters and how far they've come, about the world they built and we might build too, and about humanity itself. Even though it hurt my heart, I wanted to connect, to be better, to journey forward not as a conquering hero but with all the people I love. I didn't feel the same as I did before I read it, and that is perhaps that best thing a book can do.
It's been a long ride, and I thank the author for taking me on it, and the website for letting me tell it. Love.
Graphic: War, Colonisation, Slavery, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, and Blood