Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

67 reviews

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

malinhalia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Well-written fantasy with a clear grounding in actual medieval culture. Great world building - the religions not only have zealots but they are also believable characters acting according to their faith.

Deducting points on

clumsy enemies to lovers writing, very predictable good to evil character switch/plot twist, and some very wordy filler sections

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Minor: War

ehmannky'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

5.0

Fabulous world building, characters, and plot. Everything you want from a brick of epic fantasy. I loved the look at what duty and devotion to country/the collective means for each of these characters, and what it means to escape the oppressive parts of this cycle. Glorian needing to submit her body and womb to be part of an unending chain, Dumai trying to find a way to escape the petty politics, Tunuva balancing personal growth with her devotion to her community, Wulf struggling with the missing parts of his identity, all of it was so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Xenophobia

Minor: Mental illness

raptorq'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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, and Child death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

sophs_mae's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

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daryn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-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

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Pregnancy, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Murder and Religious bigotry

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-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

5.0

The Priory Of The Orange Tree is one of my favourite books so I had extremely high expectations for this and I was very pleased to find it lived up to them. I enjoyed this just as much as Priory, possibly more. I did make the mistake of starting it while I was tired and it took me several days to really get into it but after that I didn't want to stop. I was excited to return to this world and get to know the new characters, all of whom I ended up loving. The way their plots weave together was very satisfying and I also enjoyed seeing how motherhood was a strong theme throughout. It was also fascinating to see the connections between the two books and consider what it would be like to read this one first. 

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Content Warnings

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

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, War, Violence, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Animal death

Minor: Suicide, Cannibalism, and Child death

erinoco's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.5

Such a well written and rich book, if a bit slow in pacing.

I'm probably in the minority here, in that I read this prequel before "Priory". It was available on my audiobook app and as Shannon said you could read it as a standalone, I did.

This is a world that is on levels with the ones created by classic High Fantasy authors like Tolkien or GRRM and you can tell so much love and thought was poured into this.

My main issue with this book is how long it takes for anything to happen. You either have to listen or read for a really long time before shit really starts to go down and I don't think I would've continued if I had been reading.

I loved how everything started to come together in the end and how we saw more and more outsider perspectives on our main characters. I especially loved Glorian's story and how carefully Inez (and also the Priory!) flipped modern gender roles and how that was handled.

There is an added interview with the author at the end and it was so fascinating to see her thoughts and how well she knew this world she'd created — there's so much potential!

It was hard to get into this book and the whole universe but now I'm more than ready to dive into "Priory" and hopefully won't have to get through much more world building 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Animal death, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Child death