Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

89 reviews

runitsthepopo's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Sexism, Vomit, Dementia

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol

dsarbear's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, War

a9grant7's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail

agentdrake's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, War

Moderate: Medical content

valpuri's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Murder

Minor: Sexism, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Alcohol

apiecalypsejen's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

yogomagpie's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark 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

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Wow. I don’t even know where to begin. Well, it took me several months to finish this book, including having to start over because I took a short break and then forgot what was going on, oof. But oh the last quarter was really intense. My favorite moment was when

Kaladin leaped across the chasm straight into the Parshendi—time seemed to freeze—and then he inhaled the stormlight from the spheres in their beards. I audibly gasped

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I loved the variety of characters that we followed, each with their distinct personality and tone. On to book two!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Grief, Colonisation

Minor: Alcohol

annettewolf's review against another edition

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Not my cup of tea. The Mormon mythology/allegory was too obvious and heavy-handed, the descriptions were tedious, and I cared about exactly zero characters. Kaladin's depression was portrayed poorly, specifically his suicidality. It was used to approximate character "growth" and felt forced and fake. I probably could've tuned out a hundred times and not missed much, because the pacing is so slow.

If you want epic fantasy, where you actually care about the characters, read Lord of the Rings. Or Samantha Shannon. Or N. K. Jemisin.

Also, upset at the lack of LGBTQIA2S+ characters. When your worldbuilding is that extensive, and you describe every single character down to what they are wearing, their accent, the color of their skin, and there is ZERO queer representation, that feels like a very conscious choice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

serracha's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism

categalafassi's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Misogyny