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Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

23 reviews

doodeedoda's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Death, Confinement, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Child death, Mental illness, Trafficking, and Child abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Self harm

sukidookie's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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

4.75

I loved this series for its beautiful and fleshed-out story world. Minya easily became my favourite character, but I loved all of them. The way grief and trauma was creatively portrayed through the dream world was fascinating to me. There was so much dimension to this story that it almost felt real, it makes me want to believe in all the fairy tales I know. I only wish that the book had a more satisfying ending, and it didn't say something cheesy. If it HAD to say something cheesy, I think it would have been cool if the epilogue ended with a fairy-tale cliché. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual content

sealbrecht's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, War, Blood, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Torture, Trafficking, Rape, Sexual content, and Slavery

bethy_joy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gaslighting, Racism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Death of parent, Murder, and Bullying

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicide, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

msradiosilence's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.0

Tldr; Minya gets a story, but so do other characters that were entirely unneeded. For an almost 600 page book, it was pretty boring.

Read my full review here: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/muse-of-nightmares.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

thewordsdevourer's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

*dreamy, wonder-filled sigh* this book is a gift; one of depraved darkness, oppression, hatred, but also of love and imagination and redemption and a world - worlds - of possibilities if we hope for it.

still have never read anything so wondrously, boundlessly imaginative, and the eretz easter eggs are a bonus too. muse is a languid yet tension-filled story, but its plot still contains surprises. the writing is absolutely exquisite; laini can make you ache, amazed, or devastated with just a phrase or even a single word. despite having already read this once before, i was still riveted.

i wish every single person read this book; god(s) knows the world would be so much better for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Death

Minor: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Kidnapping, War, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Slavery

kfergey's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I really enjoyed this book. It was a great sequel sand did a good job wrapping things up. <Plus, I love a happy ending>. Only thing keeping it from a 5* review is that I felt it got a bit too complicated, tried to do too much. Maybe this should have been a trilogy? The stories felt a bit rushed, especially after how long the first book took to get going. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

corvicore's review

adventurous emotional sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, and Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexual content, Rape, Trafficking, and War

Minor: Abandonment, Confinement, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

aloeverra's review

adventurous challenging hopeful 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? No

4.0

I was very nervous starting this book. There were particular directions I didn't want the plot to go especially after the ending of the first book. Specifically I was afraid certain characters would be changing for the worse. While there were plenty of very difficult confrontations in the book, the author never let my fears come to fruition. The characters kept true to themselves and in most respects were strengthened to something better by the end of the book. The story conclusion was satisfying and answered most of my lingering curiosities as well.
My only issue was with the length of the book, which at times felt too long. Certain narrative spin offs or character thought monologues felt repetitive and unnecessary. Aside from this minor point, I enjoyed the book very much!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide

Minor: Rape

Details on content warnings: Sexual Content

there are nude scenes between two characters with stomach, and breast touching. There is also mention of other sexual acts though they are not detailed in anyway

Rape: this is never written in present time, and is only alluded to in the story as a past event. Suicide

death by jumping off a high place into dangerous water. Thoughts are not heard during the process.

janereads1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book is just so beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Sexual content