Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

65 reviews

nat20charisma's review against another edition

4.75

I liked this much better than the Priory of the Orange Tree. I enjoyed following the characters from a young age and watching them grow up. My only issue with it was that it dragged a bit in the middle, but that’s to be expected with such a dense fantasy story. 

This was also a great pick to read for June! It had fantastic LGBTQ+ representation. 

I can’t decide if it’s better to read PotOT first or aDoFN. I think it could be read in either order, but there is a lot of discussion of the mother and the saint in this book that wouldn’t make sense unless you read Priory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide

itisnatal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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: Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Child death, Pregnancy, and Animal death

gardens_and_dragons'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? No

5.0

Fabulous complex characters, great story beats that all wove together in a satisfying way, tense politics and awesome dragons. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death and Abandonment

Minor: Child death

atalea's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, War, Blood, Violence, Pregnancy, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Animal death, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Body horror

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Death of parent, Animal death, Violence, Pregnancy, War, and Death

Moderate: Child death and Religious bigotry

Minor: Colonisation, Classism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

chanlo1994's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

This book differs, in a good way, from its predecessor by focusing its conflict more on the supernatural elements than the political ones. It still felt like the same.universe but we got to see so much more that was left to be discovered from the first book. I enjoyed it very much. I'd love to see a book detailing the original Dreadmount eruption and the Snow Maiden

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Violence, Sexism, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Gore, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, and Adult/minor relationship

lemonyanne'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? Yes

5.0

SUCH a good prequel to Priory of the Orange Tree!! So obsessed with this and could see it all so perfectly and cinematically. Somehow even better than POTOT and that’s saying something! Queer characters, POC rep and incredible fantasy plot ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Pregnancy

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, War, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

bibliophilefrombirth's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death

bitter_critter'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, War, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Kidnapping and Adult/minor relationship

mice_are_nice'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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, War, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Animal cruelty, and Adult/minor relationship