Reviews tagging 'War'

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

73 reviews

cbryant96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

psquared99's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Religious bigotry

stephaniemcuervo'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Classism

grace_b_3's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

alucinor's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

amelieraw's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Im not quite sure how to rate this book, because it went from okay to boring to great.

The good:
Dalinar. Hands down he, Navani and Jasnah carried the book. I enjoyed the flashbacks and his POV's the most, I even liked the heavy politics focus. Definitely my favorite character in the series (so far). 
The ending, or the last 200 pages, was where the story really picked up. The fast pacing was a breath of fresh air after such a long, slow middle section. 

The bad: 
The middle was a slog. I had a hard time paying attention and caring for anything that happened in Kholinar. I really didn't gaf about the queens plot and found myself bored with both Shallan's and Kaladin's POV's. The worst of all was

Elhokar's death. While I enjoyed his recent character development, I really didn't care for when he died and was glad when they FINALLY left the city.

That being said, Shadesmar sadly wasn't any better. It felt too dragged out and would've been better as short insertions in one of the other character POV's, just like how the ending was structured.  

All in all, I cannot rate this higher than 4 stars, which is disappointing, because I think it had the most potential as it was a Dalinar focused book (love him frfr).

first 80% of the book 3.5/5
the last 20% 5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Slavery, Vomit, and War

lacyleereads's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Murder

tmwarner_1994's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.5

So, far of the three books that I've read The Way of Kings is still my favorite book and Kaladin is my favorite character. I did enjoy this one more than Words of Radiance because I liked that we got more of the story revealed to us and we got to see more of Shallan and her training to be a radient and Jashna's ward.

I cried when Elokar was lost and his wife was no longer the woman he married and loved. I also cried when he died protecting his son.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, and War

snoflake517's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Violence and War

bookishmk's review against another edition

slow-paced

• 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? No

4.0

I enjoy the depth of the books in this series but at the same time I wish this one was 300 pages shorter. I listened to this on audiobook and Michael Kramer‘s voice did start to great on me after a while and I wish that Kate Reading read the whole book. 

Elhokar’s death seemed unnecessary and he could have been a great character going forward so that was a shame

I’m also starting to get annoyed at Dalinar’s character and wish there were more of the others but this book was his so perhaps that makes sense why, still I want more of all the others and less of him lol 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Slavery, Violence, and War