Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

6 reviews

praaliine's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.25

i love allison saft’s lyrical prose. she really knows how to set the scene. i also love how she touches on themes surrounding blind loyalty and fighting the wrong enemies. plus the romance was really sweet as well and lacked cringy dialogue, which is a great thing. it’s been a few weeks since i finished this and i still think about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Torture, Grief, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

mimmixoxo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Drug use

Minor: Kidnapping, Mental illness, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Deportation, Gore, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief, Physical abuse, Torture, Body horror, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

kalmia31's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Addiction, Drug abuse, Classism, Physical abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Alcoholism

Minor: War, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Xenophobia

lyserature's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

[EDIT] : I think about the vibes of this book a lot,, 

It was fine. I have to say though it felt unedited enough like there was more stuff to be done before publishing. It was entertaining but I also wanted to just be done with it.

It was hard to buy into Hal and Wren's relationship at first...

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Content Warnings

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

girlonbooks's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️ Four Stars (as rated in the snow clouds in this splendidly wintery read)

Niece to the queen herself, Wren Southerland might as well be a nobody. Sequestered in the Abbey from a very young age, Wren fought to establish her worth with her exceptional (and magical) healing abilities. Having worked her way up to Lieutenant in the Queen’s army, all Wren wants in the whole world is to be recognized for her value; to be told she matters. But when one moment of misplaced compassion leaves her at the mercy of an enemy spy – compromising her entire mission – Wren risks losing everything she’s spent years worked for. Getting back in the Queen’s good graces will require a bigger gamble than she’s ever taken before, and necessitate allying herself with the very enemy she’s sworn to defeat.

“Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier’s uniform”

This book really grew on me. I loved the narration from the start (Kathleen McInerney deserves her own genre of the word talented) but I took a minute to connect with the story. Once things get going, though, and the mystery “intensifies,” so to speak, I was officially in it for the long haul. Just something to keep in mind if you’re on the fence about DNFing within the first 50 pages.

✨ Read this book because: you want a cozy winter read with some mystery, the tiniest bit of sexual tension and a lot of politically motivated backstabbing.

✨ Content warnings for this book: descriptive medical stuff, graphic medical trauma, gore, blood, death, death of a parent, murder, poisoning, body horror, war, violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and War