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The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

85 reviews

luminescify's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

I was going to DNF this book halfway through. It took so long to get started but I’m SO GLAD I DIDN’T!

I absolutely fell in love with these characters. Found family is my all time favorite and this story had a lot of that. There was too much death though and I’m a sap. I want everyone alive and happy and healthy at the end of a story but with stories that go like this, it was inevitable.

The ending was really rushed but it makes sense as there’s like 57 more books in this series so…do I pick up the next one? Can I handle the heartbreak? Stay tuned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Classism, Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, War, and Hate crime

Minor: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Grief

emsavors's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Gore, Grief, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

jrow's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-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

Fun read

even though some of the descriptions of gore were shockingly graphic.

Like normal Brandon Sanderson books, the first 20% took about a week to really get into, but the last 20% I finished in one evening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gore, Slavery, and Torture

littlegreen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Murder, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

bricehartwich's review

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Slavery

Moderate: War

Minor: Physical abuse

mae_is_trying's review

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious 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: Classism

Moderate: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Racism, Rape, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Torture, and War

serena_hien's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, War, Slavery, Abandonment, Classism, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Blood, Grief, Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Torture

Minor: Rape

ctara2123's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, Slavery, Physical abuse, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Grief, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and War

Minor: Torture

kiwij96's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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? Yes

3.0

Having heard many positive reviews about this series and of Brandon Sanderson's writing, I thought I'd start here, as was suggested. Maybe I went into this with too high an expectation, but this didn't really capture my attention past the fifth chapter, but I stuck with it in the hopes that the story would progress or improve. It didn't for me.

There were chapters upon chapters of filler, and seemingly important pieces of plot or development often happened off-page. My favourite characters were the supporting cast pretty much, because they were the only ones with any personality (Dox, Clubs, Spook, Breeze, Ham, Sazed). The whole book was just a grown adult man relying heavily on the capabilities of a 16-17 year old child, and often putting her in harm's way for no reason whatsoever.

Some parts of the story felt either info-dumpy or unfinished, and, at a couple of points, repetitive. There was also the mini romance plotline which was just completely out of place.

Also the ending happened too quickly. After reading 500 pages on what was essentially dialogue (don't even get me started on the amount of times the word "said" was used), politics and "oh woe is me", the ending felt very rushed and as though even Sanderson wanted the story to be over.

However, the magic system was interesting and a great concept, and there was some good camaraderie between the crew members. But that was essentially 100 pages of enjoyment really so idk, maybe I should have DNFed, I'm sorry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Murder

Minor: Mental illness and Rape

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, War, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Torture