Reviews tagging 'Grief'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

77 reviews

_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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mightymegan25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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, Pregnancy, War, and Grief