Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

105 reviews

bright's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

nitalibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

foxeswander'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Addiction and Grief

Minor: Slavery and Forced institutionalization

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

4.75

No estoy para nada okay tras terminar esto. Me siento como Kaladin. Definitivamente no okay pero no tan mal como durante... ese capítulo.
Volveré mañana cuando pueda resumir mis sentimientos pero de algo estoy segura. Este libro me dio una catarsis tremenda, no puedo esperar al final y Brandon más te vale dejar que Kaladin sobreviva.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcoholism, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, and Alcohol

mostly_harmless's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Death

lostinthelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Unfortunately, this is my least favourite of the Stormlight Archives books so far. It was always going to be hard to top Words of Radiance but this did fall short for me and for the first time I felt the length of these doorstopper novels. 

Of course, the weakest in a masterpiece series is still very good and there was lots that I really liked here. Some highlights were:

• Raboniel - This series does heroes really well but the previous books haven't had particularly interesting villains. Raboniel broke this trend - menacing, intelligent and sympathetic I was on edge never knowing what she was going to do and what her motives really were. 
• Navani - She's always been one of my favourite characters and I am so glad she got her time to shine in this book
• The scenes in Shadesmar especially
  Maya's testimony
• The exploration of Kaladin's mental health and his journey to supporting others with theirs
• The final chapter of the book was just beautiful!

The chapters containing the above were fantastic and gripped me as I know this series can but there was a lot to wade through to get to them. I think it was a mistake to not introduce

Venli's

flashbacks until two thirds into the book. The flashback POV chapters really anchored the previous books and I think their absence in the first third made this book feel a bit more directionless.

I still love this series and have no doubt that the end to its arc in the next book will be masterful. Maybe I will even look back on this book fondly as I am sure it will set events in motion for the finale. But for now I am still a little disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction

gembaskerville's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring slow-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, and Blood

meshedup's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

green_bone's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

venatrix's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death and Suicide attempt