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Un assassino alle porte by Sabaa Tahir

11 reviews

esconce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

4.5

Not my favorite book of the whole series, and sometimes felt like the pacing was off.. BUT I loved the characters so much that it really doesn’t matter that much. It’s definitely a good book and makes the series feel a lot closer to being completed. I love that Helene and Harpers relationship is growing and just over all good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Cursing, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Classism, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Sexism, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Trafficking

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Vomit, Torture, Racism, Grief, Genocide, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Misogyny, Medical trauma, War, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Death of parent, Death, Physical abuse, Body horror, Classism, Blood, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, Violence, Domestic abuse, Cursing, and Confinement

semmler's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-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

4.75

You think you know where it's going, you try decrypting the prophecies and everytime you are wrong.
I loved how surprising the plot twisted, it still made sense and didn't seem forced or unrealistic within this universe. The dread looms over you, you know it's coming but you don't know when or how and the characters are as 'clueless' as you which makes it even better to read. With clueless I don't mean that they don't try or that they are dumb, on the contrary; they have super valid theories and you root for them and you try to solve it with them, but the author is a genius playing you and your expectations for ya fantasy like a fiddle. 
I loved how true the characters stayed themselves. How the author didn't dimish their personalities for plot or the reader's satisfaction. There is no black and white, no right or wrong. Everything has consequences, that will sooner or later come back to you even if it takes time and it's so great to read! Top book!
The only point of criticism I would have is, that it is fantasy with all that fantasy needs. Magic, ghosts, the power of a story, monsters etc. Which is not bad at all, but I won't be able get my non-fantasy-reading friends to read it and that is kind of a shame.
Their loss, loved it a lot 💕

The 0.25 to the 5 stars are missing, because it doesn't have lines that are so true and clear within themselves that you have to read them over and over again. Because you can relate and it echoes with the understanding of the world and a clearity that is disarming. But that is only my criteria for a 5 star rating. Very cool book still!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Murder, and War

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Sexual content and Sexism

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.25

this would’ve been probably an objectively better book than the previous one and i would’ve preferred it to the previous books because of the politics, the fact that Elias and Laia aren’t near each other and i liked Musa and his city, but i just don’t fucking care. at one point i realized i just wanted to be done with this and i stopped paying too much attention. 

the characters have zero development and are so flat, the romance is fucking terrible and the narration is annoying as fuck. ugh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Slavery, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

urlocalvocaloidstan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

  Just like the other books in this series, this book was such a page turner and there were plot twists at every corner. All the characters had really good writing and Laia’s trauma from being betrayed by the Nightbringer still haunts her even in this book. Both the internal and external conflicts felt very real and you could easily sympathize with even evil people like Marcus. All three of the main characters go through so much and they have to make super tough decisions that could bring the end of the world, especially The Blood Shrike, so it would make sense if they were unlikable characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Genocide

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child death, Confinement, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Toxic relationship

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

kilic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexism, Pregnancy, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

crazyrandom_music's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-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: Blood, Colonisation, Death of parent, Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Pregnancy

bookaquarius'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Sexual violence

entanglednovels's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Even though this took me like two months to read, it's still so fucking good!! 4.5 stars!!! I just hate endings and I heard the end of Reaper HURT so I put it off. Full disclosure - yes, there is a part that hurt me very fucking much and I would like a justification as to WHY Sabaa Tahir thought that would be okay. But now I am just fearful of all the shit that's gona go down in Sky and I am not ready.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Sexism, Rape, and Physical abuse