Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

28 reviews

toastyghosty13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

i did this as part of a tandem read with empire of storm. i really enjoyed this book, despite it being placed directly after a book with a major cliffhanger. the tandem read absolutely helped with this, because i only had about 100 pages left to read of this rather than the whole of ToD. 

i really enjoyed seeing a new area that is so far detached from adarlan. the PoVs of both Chaol and Nesryn were good to see and i enjoyed meeting a lot of new characters. this provides a lot of context for things in empire of storm as well.

overall this book was great, just not as a follow up to empire of storm (unless done as a tandem read) because the events take place at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Murder, War, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit and Suicide

nerdkitten's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, Grief, Drug use, Violence, Vomit, and Ableism

Moderate: Stalking, Pregnancy, War, Racism, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Gore, Chronic illness, Classism, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Misogyny, Slavery, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Bullying, Death of parent, Murder, Suicide, and Xenophobia

chuckielittle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Cursing, Grief, Violence, War, Ableism, and Drug use

Minor: Child death, Infertility, Sexism, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, and Vomit

aharper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

ohgull's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Ableism, Grief, and Drug use

Moderate: Genocide, War, and Torture

Minor: Murder and Suicide

nshocklee's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide and War

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and War

kenziewol's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicide, Murder, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Minor: Violence, War, Vomit, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

lunahale'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? Yes

4.5

4/4/23: i wish there was more sartaq and nesyrn in this. i just love them so much, and i don’t think there can ever be too much of them. also, yrene shoving hasar into the pool when she insulted chaol was possibly the best part of this book. 
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8/28/22: what is it with sjm and her creepy libraries? anyway, i wanna be borte’s best friend 
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12/30/19: chaol and yrene remain one of my favorite couples in this series. really, all the couples in this book are super soft and they're the only ones that were structured this way—the only ones who were able to kindle their relationships away from outright war.
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i don't know why i expected nothing major to happen in this book. in hindsight, this was idiotic of me because everything in these books tie together and overlap in some way. basically this was so so good. there was a lot of character development and i was so happy to see Chaol overcome so many of the hard ships that he's faced in previous books. i am not ready for the next book bc i think everyone is going to die, but I'm excited to see how all the information that was learned in this book will play into the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Pregnancy, and Suicide

thatrandombookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

 To my surprise I ended up enjoying this book. A the start around the first 100 pages I considered giving up, but I'm happy that I stuck along. Around pages 250-350 I realized that <Yrene and Chaol would end up together, and was incredibly disappointed, because I shipped Chaol and Nesryn. But by the end of the book, I was glad that Yrene and Chaol are end game (I'm almost certain they're end game, I know there is a book to go but they're married). I don't mind Nesryn and Sartaq, I don't have any strong opinions on their relationship. I really liked Chaol's character arc.> I hated Chaol from the middle of Crown of Midnight. I still don't like him very much, but he isn't the worst. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and War