Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

102 reviews

painausten314's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

mhari's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

sm1401's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

It was a slow start very dragging up until chapter 10ish, then the plot actually begins, I found that the characters I hated with a passion became my favorite at the halfway point of the book. It has its issues (being problematic and such) but the story is incredibly captivating 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and War

mikaelaandherbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I liked this one, but I'm really glad I tandem read it with Empire of Storms because it was a bit slow at the beginning and I would've missed reading about the others (Aelin, Rowan, Aedion, etc.). I really loved Chaol's character development in this one and Nesryn has become a favorite character for me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Pregnancy, 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: Death, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

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

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

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, Suicide, and Pregnancy

embla_v's review

adventurous dark emotional

3.5

Jag älskar glastronen-serien men denna var inte den bästa. För det första så hände det inte så mycket i början av boken. För det andra så saknade jag karaktärerna som befinner sig på norra kontinenten. 

Boken handlar om Chaol och Nesryn som beger sig till södra kontinenten för att Chaol ska bli helad och för att förhoppningsvis samla en armé. Yrene är helaren som läker Chaol även fast hon avskyr Adarlan. 

Jag är glad att jag äntligen läst ut boken så att jag kan läsa kingdom of ash. Jag tycker egentligen inte att man måste läsa den här boken men om man vill veta vad som hände med Chaol på södra kontinenten så borde man läsa den. Jag rekommenderar dock starkt att läsa denna före man börjar på kingdom of ash och efter att ha läst empire of storms. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

levesc17's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

It could *almost* be a standalone book; the plot and character development are honed and satisfying. We get some answers to mysteries! Do not skip this book just because Aelin is not in it!!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Grief, and Murder

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

If there was ever a time for a redemption arc, this was it! Although filler between Empire of Storms & Kingdom of Ash, it was a solid smooth read from start to finish! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Vomit, and Murder