Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

32 reviews

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and War

kenziewol's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicide, Murder, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Minor: Violence, War, Vomit, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

lunahale's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

4/4/23: i wish there was more sartaq and nesyrn in this. i just love them so much, and i don’t think there can ever be too much of them. also, yrene shoving hasar into the pool when she insulted chaol was possibly the best part of this book. 
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8/28/22: what is it with sjm and her creepy libraries? anyway, i wanna be borte’s best friend 
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12/30/19: chaol and yrene remain one of my favorite couples in this series. really, all the couples in this book are super soft and they're the only ones that were structured this way—the only ones who were able to kindle their relationships away from outright war.
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i don't know why i expected nothing major to happen in this book. in hindsight, this was idiotic of me because everything in these books tie together and overlap in some way. basically this was so so good. there was a lot of character development and i was so happy to see Chaol overcome so many of the hard ships that he's faced in previous books. i am not ready for the next book bc i think everyone is going to die, but I'm excited to see how all the information that was learned in this book will play into the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Pregnancy, and Suicide

thatrandombookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

 To my surprise I ended up enjoying this book. A the start around the first 100 pages I considered giving up, but I'm happy that I stuck along. Around pages 250-350 I realized that <Yrene and Chaol would end up together, and was incredibly disappointed, because I shipped Chaol and Nesryn. But by the end of the book, I was glad that Yrene and Chaol are end game (I'm almost certain they're end game, I know there is a book to go but they're married). I don't mind Nesryn and Sartaq, I don't have any strong opinions on their relationship. I really liked Chaol's character arc.> I hated Chaol from the middle of Crown of Midnight. I still don't like him very much, but he isn't the worst. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and War

embla_v's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional

3.5

Jag älskar glastronen-serien men denna var inte den bästa. För det första så hände det inte så mycket i början av boken. För det andra så saknade jag karaktärerna som befinner sig på norra kontinenten. 

Boken handlar om Chaol och Nesryn som beger sig till södra kontinenten för att Chaol ska bli helad och för att förhoppningsvis samla en armé. Yrene är helaren som läker Chaol även fast hon avskyr Adarlan. 

Jag är glad att jag äntligen läst ut boken så att jag kan läsa kingdom of ash. Jag tycker egentligen inte att man måste läsa den här boken men om man vill veta vad som hände med Chaol på södra kontinenten så borde man läsa den. Jag rekommenderar dock starkt att läsa denna före man börjar på kingdom of ash och efter att ha läst empire of storms. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, and Sexual content

readwithria's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

ADDED AFTER 2023 REREAD

Y’all, this book wrecks me. The growth of characters we know and love, the new characters and setting, the HEART that this book has. It’s great. It’s underrated. It’s too long, but Sarah certainly didn’t pull any punches. I will be a Chaol apologist until the day I die. 4.5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Ableism

Moderate: War, Sexual content, Vomit, and Medical trauma

Minor: Murder, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Slavery

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? Yes

1.25

I hate this book with every fiber of my being. Chaol Westfall is an awful character who defers only suffering, and I think poor darling Yrene deserved better. All of the twists? Absolutely saw them coming. The blatant and sickening ableism in this book? Disgusting. The only reason I didn’t DNF was because I would’ve been upset that I let a book beat me, and I’d already spent 8 1/2 hours slogging through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, and Miscarriage

Minor: Confinement and Gaslighting

bookishnatalia'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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism and Suicide

kay14's review against another edition

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

All the time I was reading 'Throne of Glass,' I never actually expected to give a book 5 stars, but here we are.
This book was a masterpiece, in my opinion.
Chaol's redemption arc, Yrene's fiery personality, Nesryn, Sartaq, and the ruk riders were a few among my favourite aspects of this book.
After 200 pages of beautifully written worldbuilding, the plot really picked up, and the Southern Continent started becoming a bigger part of the over-arching plot in the series, which is why this book is completely vital, both to the characters and the plot of Kingdom of Ash.
I adored every single amazingly-crafted word dedicated to this book, and it's completely worthy of my rare rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Medical content

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Violence

axahean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Genocide, Grief, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit