Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

110 reviews

jupitermond's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Animal death

Minor: Child death and Adult/minor relationship

malinhalia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Well-written fantasy with a clear grounding in actual medieval culture. Great world building - the religions not only have zealots but they are also believable characters acting according to their faith.

Deducting points on

clumsy enemies to lovers writing, very predictable good to evil character switch/plot twist, and some very wordy filler sections

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Minor: War

kristinv20'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

5.0

i went into this book with really high expectations because i loved priory, and it somehow managed to exceed them. the world feels so lush and fleshed out with the new countries that were important here, the characters are compelling (even the minor characters), and the plots were interwoven really nicely. the pacing is better than priory overall; i'd say this reads a lot like a Stormlight Archives book where the first 2/3 are an even mix between plot and character development and then the last third is just all action all the time. i also really loved how diverse the world felt, and how casually it was handled.
i loved it, i'll read literally anything Samantha Shannon decides to write in this world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

kayceeisbookish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Pregnancy, War, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Blood

raptorq's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, and Child death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

frida12345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: War

Minor: Pregnancy, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Adult/minor relationship

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

• Seriously amazing characters
• Political intrigue
• Dragons and magic
• Sapphic romance

The true definition of an epic sweeping high fantasy. Going into this I basically only knew two things: sapphic and dragons. I would've liked to get more dragons, but I feel as if that might be coming in Priory. I have not read TPOTOT yet as I decided to do this prequel first. I think because of that I had to get all the world building out of the way and it took about 200+ pages before I felt like I wasn't constantly referencing maps/character lists (tho I SUPER appreciate them being included). There are a lot of background characters and it takes a bit to get settled into the main POVs, but all the main characters are all just scrumptious. Truly hard to pick a favorite (although personally are Glorian and Dumai). I look forward to reading Priory next month (one 800+ pg book per month is all I can handle)!

I was originally gonna rate this 4.75 stars but I just cannot stop thinking about it, so it's 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief

eleanora's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, War, Religious bigotry, Medical content, and Infidelity

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

mahitdzmare's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and War

Minor: Cannibalism

sophmcgraw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent