Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

51 reviews

kristinv20'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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

i went into this book with really high expectations because i loved priory, and it somehow managed to exceed them. the world feels so lush and fleshed out with the new countries that were important here, the characters are compelling (even the minor characters), and the plots were interwoven really nicely. the pacing is better than priory overall; i'd say this reads a lot like a Stormlight Archives book where the first 2/3 are an even mix between plot and character development and then the last third is just all action all the time. i also really loved how diverse the world felt, and how casually it was handled.
i loved it, i'll read literally anything Samantha Shannon decides to write in this world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

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

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

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

fictionalportal'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? It's complicated

5.0

15000000/5 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

Moderate: War, Xenophobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Violence, Suicide, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Grief, Animal death, and Child abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

brookesinfinitebooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexism, Violence, and Kidnapping

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

quinnyquinnquinn'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: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Kidnapping, Animal death, and Suicide

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

gracewiley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Animal death, and Body horror

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Child death, Sexual content, Medical content, and Xenophobia