Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

16 reviews

alyssadavis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Slavery, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Trafficking

machen27's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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? No

3.5

I found this book incomplete despite it's length and the depth at which it explores the lore. The main character, Vin, didn't seem very believable to me, especially considering the sections dealing with court intrigue. I think one of the big issues here is that I feel like Sanderson does a LOT of telling, but not a lot of showing. I wish the book explored better the ramifications of how the world was setup with how long it is and how slow the pacing felt. Instead it felt very one dimensional: the Skaa are downtrodden after 1000 years of oppression. The nobles are generally at best, too busy with court intrigue to care about anything else. I just felt like there were so many interesting themes (is it right to kill people complicit in oppressing others if they have never known another way? Is stability more valuable than freedom or equality?) to explore and Sanderson decided to write a long drawn out action movie instead. 

I think it's interesting enough to read but I doubt I'll be able to finish another book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment and Trafficking

Minor: Sexual assault

mochalirious's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Death

Minor: Trafficking

blynecessity's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.25

Y'all, this read felt reeeal tone-deaf when it came to the topics of poverty and dealing with trauma. Also, very clunky writing. And why was there basically one woman in this whole book? Outside of random socialites, a couple of unnamed maids, and a girl who was about to be assaulted (who was also not named, just referred to as so-and-so's child), there are basically no women in this book. And the main woman was inexplicably and instantly in love with a mediocre and kinda rude man, who btw was a 21 years old to her 16 years old. Anywaaaayyy, non-noble women also seem to have almost no role in society aside from literally popping out "a dozen children"??? Where were they all the rest of the time?? Every background character seemed to be a man, and (with one exception) every foreground character was a man too. I just did not love this book, tbh. Maybe this was really progressive to the cis-het white men who were looking to expand their grimdark fantasy reads when it first came out, but this has nooot aged well!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent, Infidelity, Stalking, and Trafficking

katievallin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Torture and Trafficking

lucimolri's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence