Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

84 reviews

gracegeeks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.75

i was initially bored by this book because it is a SLOW one but i found so much joy, peace, and hope in its pages. the representation is incredible and so close to my heart and the world-building absolutely shines 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Violence, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Infidelity, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Blood

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.0

When I realized that Tower of Dawn was about Chaol instead of Aelin and crew, I was not excited. I put it down in favor of a few other books and ignored it for days at a time. Honestly it wasn’t until around page ~200 when I really got into it. Luckily I pushed through and actually enjoyed it! 

As a last ditch effort, Chaol and Nesryn hope to find an alliance with the powerful Khagan kingdom in Antica—and heal Chaol’s broken body at the Torre Cesme too. 

We meet a whole host of new, fierce characters that allow for a total change of pace compared to the other books in the series. Slower paced, yes, but in a good way. And even though this was a side story, a lot of its big reveals will most definitely return with a vengeance in the last book of the series. Can’t wait to see how SJM wraps all of this up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and War

painausten314's review against another edition

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

Moderate: Kidnapping, Ableism, and Sexual content

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: Grief, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy and Vomit

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

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: Alcohol, Suicide, Murder, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

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

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

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

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, Pregnancy, and Suicide