Reviews tagging 'Death'

Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

47 reviews

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

THE WAY THE ENDING HAD MY DROP TIME AND TIME AGAIN. I can tell already this series will be one I love and appreciate for a long time truly. And I will be diving almost straight into the final one. 

I felt turmultuous as the back and forth between Akiva and karou and the angels and chimera but I still wasn’t ready for the end and cannot wait to see where they’ll take us. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Slavery, Vomit, Abandonment, Medical content, Murder, Gore, War, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence

emilylovesgoodbooks's review against another edition

emotional tense

• 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: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Death

scarlett_f's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Confinement, Grief, Gore, Sexual assault, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

refr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

If you are sensible to s.a. stuff, avoid chapter 71 at all costs. It's been two days and I'm still having trouble falling asleep.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and War

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Vomit, Violence, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, War, and Torture

ashley_elizabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

4.0

Wow, this was a hard book to read. I certainly did not expect picking up this YA fantasy would mean delving into pain, grief, war, and other terrible things. While a challenging read in many ways, it was also incredibly enthralling and really made me want to keep reading. It's been a long time since a book held my attention in such a manner! I'm very, very interested to see where these various plot points land...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, War, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

kayelina's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Torture, Self harm, and Death

Moderate: War, Suicide, Physical abuse, Genocide, and Rape

Minor: Incest

lisashelves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Rape

itisnatal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Vomit, War, and Death

donatio's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Writing style was as good as in the first one and I still liked the characters, especially Ziri and Liraz.
Also liked that we finally got to see the way the angels live, since Book 1 was more about the chimaera. 

In the middle, when Karou was on Earth, resurrecting chimaera the pacing felt off, nothing happened for a hundred pages. 
The characters who were introduced newly felt quite forced, even if they played major roles later. Why didn't we hear about Joram's son before Akiva & Co killed him?
I would have also liked a clearer explanation on how the bodies for the resurrections are made do they just appear, or... ?

Solid read, all in all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Misogyny, Violence, War, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Abandonment, Body horror, Genocide, and Medical content