Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

102 reviews

esconce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

Honestly one of my favorite books of the series, a lot of twists I wasnt expecting. Read it in about 4 days but it wasn’t cause it was short or anything its just one of those can’t put down books :D 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Grief, Hate crime, Misogyny, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexism, Bullying, Cursing, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Racism

latashman'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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Minor: Genocide and Rape

ek4therin4h's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, and Blood

Moderate: Torture

blubonby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.5

just as amazing as the first one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Genocide, Slavery, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Confinement

taydizzy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Violence

Minor: Rape

moserstopheles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, War, Torture, and Slavery

george0277's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, and Genocide

Moderate: Colonisation, Grief, and Death

redhothabanero's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Slavery, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual content

ashliebysmashliereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

5/⭐️ for Sabaa Tahir's A Torch Against the Night.

You GUYS. These books. 😫

This is the sequel to An Ember in the Ashes, and I put this series against any YA Fantasy I've read. I grew up on HP. I tell people that HP taught me more about being a good person in my formative years than any religious text.

These books blow HP out of the water. 

Loyalty, Courage, Perseverance. The unending drive to do what is right despite what is expected of you and what is placed before. 

The politics. The scheming. The damn battles. The staged riots.

And the MAGIC! Fighting effrits and wraiths, and the Nightbringer, King of the Jinn lurking and plotting. In this book, we meet the Soul Catcher Shaeva, another Jinn. 

Laia develops and masters an enexpected power, Elias finds his souls calling, and Helene is unmade.

I'm dying for my hold on A Reaper at the Gates to present itself. 

Run. Don't walk. This is the kind of story that I have truly been waiting years for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, and Genocide

nikspandya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

I have never read a second book in a series more perfect than this one. The pacing is perfect. Nothing happens conveniently, it all truly ties together and feels organic. The characters and the settings are amazing and three dimensional. Heck, even the villains are amazing (in their villainy of course)!! I think that this book is inappropriately categorized as YA. Maybe the characters are young, but the content is NOT. I can definitely feel the shift of YA to adult fantasy between the first and second books. I am so so excited to read books 3 and 4 in this series and highly recommend this series to everyone, literally everyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Racism, Murder, and Slavery

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Grief