Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

80 reviews

pierrereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Murder

quabbityash's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and War

Moderate: Violence

knittersteph's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

bel017's review against another edition

The casual sexism is exhausting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexism, Murder, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Gore, Stalking, War, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, and Adult/minor relationship

ctara2123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Death, War, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Rape, and Grief

Minor: Animal death

jayinbee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.25

I could hardly put it down. I am so glad I finally decided to read this series. I found the second installment of the Mistborn trilogy solid. Lots of politics and character development, new characters, a new metal, all sorts of good stuff. I had so many questions going into the ending few chapters that my head was spinning and several of them were resolved- some obviously will have to wait until I can get my hands on book 3. Lots of the storylines and plot points were very satisfying and while I knew that the whole band couldn't just happily skip through the series unscathed, I'm kind of bitter about some of the events (if I said any more then there would be spoilers) that happened in the climax of the book and other parts just left me devastated on behalf of the characters I've grown to love. The ending definitely left me wanting more and I'm excited to see how this part of the saga resolves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, and War

tilo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

I am unsure if I have ever experienced a book like this one, where with every new chapter a new information is dropped that almost always completely twists one of the many exciting narratives. From the first page on, I was surprised and as it kept going I could not fathom all the plottwists coming. And none of them seemed over the top nor misplaced, as the world, its history and its characters, whom I am attached to deeply now, are so well construed that it read so fluently.
Not to mention, the amazing and captivating writing style!
Due to the ending, I am both extremely curious and mortified to find out what is waiting in Book Three.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Self harm, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Death, Stalking, Genocide, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Classism, Colonisation, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, War, and Slavery

Moderate: Infertility, Rape, Infidelity, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Sexism, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, and Racism

Minor: Sexism and Ableism

Mentions genital mutilation

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Murder, Death, and Blood

Minor: Pedophilia

knerys's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction and Drug use

Minor: Rape

shlymiller's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, War, Violence, and Blood