Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

66 reviews

annamorgan27's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content

maddiemooney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Blood, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Violence, Abortion, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Child death, Sexism, and War

grets_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

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

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Xenophobia, Suicide, Vomit, and Kidnapping

erin1339's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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, War, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Blood, Child death, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Animal death

thecheryl's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

The worldbuilding is just as lush and beautifully written as Priory. Glorian's character arc is everything I was hoping for. But there were a few things that I found disappointing.

- There were multiple story elements added that actively undermined the story elements of book one.

- It felt padded out in an attempt to make it as chunky as Priory, which really dragged out not only some of the story lines but also some of the character development.

- It took me most of the way through the book to put my finger on this, but Priory felt like Epic Fantasy with intricate characters included. Fallen Night felt like a book about the intricacies of the characters' lives in an epic fantasy setting. Neither is better than the other, but I wish that tone hadn't switched between books. 

This book was beautiful, I wish it hadn't spend so much time trying to foreshadow Priory and allude to what we all knew was going to happen. It should have been more confident standing on its own two feet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Sexual content

Moderate: Religious bigotry

_gess_reads_'s review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, War, Violence, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Religious bigotry and Suicide

aisabel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Religious bigotry, Murder, Suicide, and Gore

nefariousbee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.75

such a gem among high fantasies. I'd like for the characters to have more distinct voices, but that's literally my only note. loved it even more than the priory 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, War, Xenophobia, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

lizcarson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

a great time filler. 20 hour read. fun while reading, can’t recall anything in the book. super long, could’ve been shorter. once again, Samantha Shannon likes to have something super simple to wrap up her long drawn out book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Pregnancy

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

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