Reviews tagging 'War'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

129 reviews

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

thecourtofreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

this was such a wild ride and i loved every second of it. out of the storytellers, glorian and wulf were my favourites; i wasn't as invested in tunuva or dumai's storylines, but i grew to like them in the end. i also really liked how they all eventually crossed over and they were all interwoven and connected to each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy and Adult/minor relationship

ncoletti'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Blood, and War

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

kimmarieb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Death and War

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

bel017's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious

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

 agh ... so much death! I forgot that was a thing, I would have liked a lot less grief.

Extremely well written: despite the length, despite the twist and turns, deceptions and deceits, despite FOUR POVs, I followed everything!

At times I was annoyed to have to swap POVs, but not anywhere near as often as I usually am in a multi POV. My favourite character was Wulf (probably because

he gets to go everywhere so he's in all the MCs stories, and he has the least clear trajectory--his motives are his own, rather than pre-destined, and he seems to be a good and kind person just trying to do the right thing

), my least favourite was Tunuva (

the Canthe stuff was so heavily foreshadowed I just didn't feel like I had the energy to wait for her to get to the realisation the reader had had hundreds of pages earlier

). It's been a while since I read Priory, but it was interesting to see how the author set up for the bits I do remember. 

I tried to select all the content warnings but there are just too many.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, War, and Violence