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Dark Triumph by Robin Lafevers

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giovann's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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mkcarr's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

Wow! That was dark AF. made the first book look like child’s play! Major, major trigger warnings, some expected from the hints in book 1, and some so jaw-dropping to the point it was almost unnecessary. Like:

Did d’albrecht have to kill her baby?!?? Did she have to have been pregnant at all?!

I did find the book engaging and surprising at times… I wouldn’t have expected where the plot went. And I don’t mean that about the more “shocking” twists, but rather the more gentle ones (like

Beast kidnapping her rather than sending her back to dalbrecht multiple times<\>). The weak spot was the romance… I like the latter half being about the redemptive power of love, but I felt like she fell a bit too quickly. I would have believed there was love there, but not necessarily of the romantic kind. Circling back on those triggering parts:

Sybella delivering all that upsetting info in the final part of the book basically in a couple long monologues just felt a little too exposition-y… the book had already done a decent job of showing her trauma and showing how twisted her family was, so it felt like a step in the wrong direction to info dump that way. And it was a lot to take in as a reader.

in general, from my own limited perspective, I do think sybella was a good portrayal of trauma and PTSD. Oh also

I hope book 3 explains why the abbess was so wretched to her and hated her that much to send her to her death??? Bc WTF?

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kassidyreads's review against another edition

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adventurous 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

5.0

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salixia_the_elixir's review against another edition

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dark tense 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

4.25

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smiley_emily's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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godswarriorgirl's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging 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

5.0

It’s as if the author knew that I found the romance to be lacking in the first book. That’s why she gave us the incredible pairing of Sybella and Beast. I loved these two characters separately in the first book, and I loved them even more together in this one. I like how the story continues through each character, showing different perspectives while allowing us to learn more about the world of Mortain’s daughters and the Saints that dwell in Brittany. Overall, this is one of those sequels that surpassed its predecessor while still building on the world it created.

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malima's review

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adventurous dark 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

5.0

This is LaFevers' fourth book I read as well as the fourth book I read in this universe and I can't repeat enough how much in love I am with both her writing style and the world-building of the universe.

I never thought political intrigue and historical assassin spies would be things that interest me, but I cannot help but be drawn into every single one of these books.
Dark Triumph is no exception.

I really want to live in Sybella's head. Having read Dark Triumph, as well as her further adventures in Courting Darkness and Igniting Darkness, I still have not enough of reading about Sybella, her sisters, Tephanie and beast. I am missing Ismae from Grave Mercy a little, even though she does appear, I would have loved for her to appear more, even though I do understand how Sybella's story took her far away from any place Ismae would be at.

I am very sad that Mortal Heart will be the last book of this series I can read, before I have to start rereading them in order to get back into this world LaFevers constructed, but this series definitely wedged itself into the list of my favorite books.

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schumack's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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liaprism's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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