Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

60 reviews

undecidedpersonality's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Gore, Murder, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Blood

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Colonisation, Alcohol, and Genocide

Minor: Classism, Drug use, Slavery, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Confinement

iloponis's review against another edition

5.0

this was, genuinely, one of the most beautiful books ive ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, and Death

aurorarose87's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Ableism

Minor: Vomit, Murder, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Blood

annamary54's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

If I didn’t do this as a tandem read with Empire of Storms, I think this would’ve been more of a 3.75 ⭐️ read. Having the action of EOS really helped move this plot along. I’ve never been a big Chaol fan, but the development in this book is INCREDIBLE. I actually started to like him towards the end. I really enjoyed Nesryns journey especially because it brought more action to the book. The world building in this series is CRAZY, SJM you are amazing! My head is exploding at the last 50 pgs of every book. Could’ve done with out the explanation of their HVAC system for like two chapters in the beginning, but I understand why that point was really made at the end. Overall this was a very good character building story, I am glad I did the tandem read, otherwise I probably would have been a little bored at times. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Murder, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War and Sexual assault

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring slow-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

3.0

I found myself a bit bored with this one. Yrene really carried the whole book for me and I just kept wanting to come back for her. Chaol kept making progress in his emotional development then backtracking which was a bit frustrating. There’s lots of important information that is revealed in this book but I’m really glad I read it in tandem with EOS because I would’ve struggled to get through it otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Death, Pregnancy, Grief, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, and Murder

Minor: Ableism and Drug use

jessikarose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Murder, Animal death, War, Blood, Pregnancy, Violence, and Gore

huddle_dragon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: War, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Murder, and Animal death

annabeth_jackson's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Ableism, and Grief

Moderate: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Stalking

Minor: Pregnancy and Racism

readwithde's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring tense 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? Yes

4.25

I've always had a soft spot for Chaol, and it was cathartic to read through his emotional and physical healing. I appreciated how his injury/disability was handled: as something to work through and around, not a problem to be solved. His "sleuthing" with Yrene to find answers was fun, and I liked that this warrior still had trouble dealing with all the politics.

But the reason I loved this book so much is Nesryn's story. It was refreshing to have a BIPOC FMC with so many connections and interesting characteristics not become the "love interest" side character for Chaol's MC.

I love that she chose herself over their relationship, and she chose to fight in her own way for help and answers in this war. Also, I love her being with Sartaq.

She made meaningful choices, had interesting adventure and action sequences, and came away with arguably the most important hidden information in the series:

Maeve's false identity and purpose in Erilea.

I read this book in tandem with Empire of Storms, and I think both books benefited from that choice. It helped the narrative flow well, giving the reader time to react to both sides, as well as balancing the heavy action of Empire of Storms with the lore of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Sexual content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Death, Child death, Murder, Cursing, Violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent, Infidelity, Animal death, Ableism, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Alcohol

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense 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

5.0

I read Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn in tandem, so I can’t separate them. I was less interested in TOD than EOS, but Chaol and Nesryn’s growth won me over. The introduction of the southern continent was so beautiful, and the development of this new cast of characters and villains within the overarching story was fantastic. Honestly, sometimes it was a nice break from Aelin’s shenanigans in EOS lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder