A quick and enjoyable read, with a fair bit of “just what’s going on here”? In many ways, the beginning felt like the start of Mistborn to me – a structured magical system, with a living god-king at the top of the power heap, seemingly oppressing everyone. As I read, though, the mystery portion hooked me and I stopped making comparisons. The characters, too, began to interest me, although none of them were as fully-fleshed as the principals from Mistborn.
Ultimately, it was lots of fun to read, but lacks the extreme care and precision I’d been hoping to get from Brandon Sanderson, based on my limited experience. Ah, well – you can’t be at the top of your game all the time.
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Weaker text than I was hoping for – not up to Gaiman’s usual standards. The illustrations, however, made the book. Mckean’s pictures were absolutely beautiful – detailed and evocative. They more than complemented the text – as far as I’m concerned, they became the focal point. I especially liked the bear.
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Some very interesting concepts, and for the most part well-presented. I enjoyed learning about much of the reasoning behind the public’s fears of the Blank Slate, and Pinker’s rebuttals. I did find, though, that the book dragged at times, and there was a great deal of repetition, so I kept thinking “Get on with it!”. Also, while most of the “hot button” topics at the end were interesting, some had a tenuous connection at best. “The Arts”? Really?
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An entertaining read, but not compelling. First off, I should let you know that if you’re just here for the zombie-killing action, you might as well leave now – the zombies are like icing on a Pride and Prejudice cake, not the main event.
I don’t think the story suffered particularly from the zombies, and there were some funny scenes relating thereto. Unlike the time I tried to read P&P, I was able to get through the book, but that may be more to do with the fact that I’ve since seen the BBC miniseries, the Keira Knightley movie, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Bride & Prejudice, so I was able to keep all the Bennet sisters straight.
One thing I didn’t care for was the dehumanization of Elizabeth – being a well-trained zombie-killing machine is one thing, but I found the inner monologue where she’s relishing the idea of drinking blood from her just-slain enemy’s head to be a little over-the-top. I found it made her character less sympathetic.

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2 interesting premises among the twelve stories, and acceptable artwork. I found myself skimming the last two stories, as any pretence of the characters’ unnormalness went out the window.
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A good collection of stories from different points in the Marvel Universe – interesting explorations of alternative viewpoints (basically those of the Common Man). Pretty pictures. Ultimately, though, I couldn’t identify with the narrator, and I feel like I was supposed to.
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The promise of the first run continues to not be met – a kind of uninteresting story, with some characters taking unpleasant paths.
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Some of the phrasing was novel, but there just wasn’t enough substance there to really engage me. Decent pictures.
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Very enjoyable. Perhaps not absolutely thrilling when considered as a single volume as it could be, but I’m considering it as part of the entire series. One thing that had attracted me to the Mistborn series was Brandon Sanderson’s description of how he had outlined and very nearly written the three books as one, and the cohesiveness of the story was more than adequate. It was clear that certain elements that appeared fully in Hero had been planned all along and foreshadowed in the Final Empire. The story itself was more than adequate – we were finally nearly free of the minor characters that had always blended together in my mind, and I enjoyed following along with the characters that I’d come to enjoy.

I didn’t notice the supposed Mormonness of the book, and can’t say that I’d’ve cared if I did – I became hooked based on Sanderson’s prose and his well-planned story, and I stayed that way to the end.

(From my review on Goodreads.)

Not bad. Definitely a step up over Volume 2. I found the artwork to be less annoying, and the stories were actually somewhat interesting, including with a couple amusing and touching moments. I still think the series is nowhere near the quality that it had in the beginning, but definitely readable. I’ll keep going.