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Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

66 reviews

erafact's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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

4.25

Did a Tandem read which i highly recommend because "tower of dawn" is alittle slow the first 3/4's of the book. so this might contain content from "Empire of Storms" or "tower of dawn".  Long time with angst and sassy-ness. Semi pointless plot until halfway through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Moderate: Violence, Death, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Kidnapping, War, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Man is left paralyzed, and story contains the mental and physical healing from that injury. Daughter commits suicide

later found out to be murdered

and family is grieving. Pregnant woman is attacked

poati's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful

• 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

Moderate: Death of parent, Ableism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Murder, Torture, Sexual content, and Vomit

ktmcd26's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

Don’t do the tandem read. The pace of this book is drastically different from Empire of Storms and this book suffers all the down falls. This book is scoped to fewer people and has more emotion driven changes. 

It has a few extremely satisfying reveals and a few “well duh” moments. Some of the big reveals were things that I thought were just basic knowledge gained in book 3.

I believe this book suffered for not allowing Choals gradual healing to be associated with his emotional healing. In one day he faced all his repeated patterns of emotional self-abuse. I’m not buying it.

Also a note on the series as a whole, I need more key characters killed to give this war some real stakes. And I need two people to hang out and grow together and not be a couple. Let them be friends, let people miss each other and have the heart grow fonder. Just mix it up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Vomit, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide

vickyz_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Suicide

Minor: War

tanvi45'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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy and Ableism

Minor: War

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Death, Pregnancy, Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Torture, War, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, and Self harm

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

dark emotional 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 picked this book up as my continued effort to read the Throne of Glass series this year.
"Tower of Dawn" continues on in the Throne of Glass series, but it is from Chaol's perspective. Chaol has always been a fearless leader, and he has prided himself as one, but that is put to the ultimate test when he is severely injured following a particularly challenging battle. He now has to rely on one of the best healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica, Yrene, to help him get his body working again. With war on the horizons, the stakes are even greater.
I am so happy I did not give up on this series because I really, really enjoyed this book. Chaol is kind of a toxic male with his attitudes towards Yrene and everyone else. He is very preoccupied with how he appears to other people, and he does not like for people to see him struggle now that he is injured. However, I think this depiction is true to his character, and it was his fixation on protecting his manhood that ultimately made him focus on working through the pain to heal. I loved being given the opportunity to be in Chaol's head and really seeing there is so much more to him than people think.
I loved Chaol's and Yrene's dynamic together. They really know how to push each other's buttons, but they also see other for who they really are. They are the dose of reality the other needs.
I think this was the change in pace I needed to stay invested in the story and I am now so excited to pick of "Kingdom of Ash" and see how this all ends. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, War, Violence, Torture, Murder, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Slavery

sallie_ees'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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Violence, Murder, and War

phoricho's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Child death, Gore, Physical abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, War, and Drug use

sierrabowers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

I think this book was a good addition to the throne of glass series, but it was definitely not the best one. If I hadn’t done the tandem read, it would have been dreadful. I think the only way people should read this book is in conjunction with empire of storms. The ending was not as enthralling as EOS but definitely gave me motivation to hurry into Kingdom of Ash!!!! I think the journey that Chaol went through emotionally and physically is very important and shows the strength of people who live with physical disabilities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Abandonment, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Vomit, Medical content, Violence, Sexual content, War, and Sexual assault