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Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

199 reviews

minkeymom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

It’s been a while since I found a new fantasy series to fall in love with (and it was written in 2006! Where have I been? Lol). Well, I should say fantasy book… come check on me after I’ve read the sequels. The world-building was great, graphic descriptive romance non-existing, but since it is a time of war upheaval - I will warn about descriptive violence and death. Somewhere between PG13 and Rated R. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Slavery

anneschreurs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Love it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, and Abandonment

dollarsignimp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Classism

ikiteahill's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The beginning of the book felt quite slow. Trying to follow the politicking and planning was a little convoluted and boring. But then the action picks up in the second half of the book and there's some really well written action scenes. I love the magic systems in this book and the concept of the world is really interesting (even if I don't fully understand how they grow food if all the plants are dead and brown... like, supposedly there are no flowers but they do eat fruit??). I really enjoyed watching Vin

grow into her allomantic powers

. And I loved Kelsier as a character and his relationship with Vin. Seized also became one of my favorite characters.

I don't know if I'll enjoy the next book with the two of them not in it. I would hope that Seized comes back from his journey soon to help Vin or that he gets some of his own main character time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Infertility, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

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

lindseychastain'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

4.0

Okay Brandon Sanderson fans, I get it. A lot of people told me I would love this book, and I did. I’m actually glad I went in knowing nothing about the content of this book, I think I enjoyed it more because of that.

I think the thing about this book that I loved so much is that it was really… accessible. It’s not like a lot of high fantasy that is overly indulgent and so much world building that you get lost in it. It’s really an excellent balance of magic/world building and just good street telling. 

Lots of standard tropes here, which is definitely cool with me. But gosh, the characters were all so lovable. I love Vin so much. 

This is part of trilogy but it works really well as a stand alone as well, if I felt I needed to leave it here. I will continue the series, but I don’t feel compelled to dive right back into it. I kinda like that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Abandonment, 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

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