Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

25 reviews

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-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

If you’ve spoken to me in the last couple weeks, you’ve probably heard me screaming about how much I love this series! I think it’s an absolute CRIME more people aren’t talking about it. I also had the absolute best time buddy reading these with my fave feral five (sorry for imploding the buddy read when I just couldn’t stop reading, whoops).

Mini reviews for each book are below, but the main takeaway: READ THESE BOOKS!

Daughter of Smoke and Bone (4.5 stars): The world building was incredible and the characters pulled me in! Also the ending absolutely BROKE ME into a million pieces.

Days of Blood and Starlight (5 stars): Possibly a hot take but this was my favorite of the series! I absolutely loved it, start to finish, and literally could not put it down.

Dreams of Gods and Monsters (4 stars): An amazing conclusion to an incredible trilogy! It wasn’t my favorite ending and I could probably nitpick a lot of things, but overall SO emotional and captivating!

Night of Cakes and Puppets (5 stars): An absolute DELIGHT of a novella spotlighting Zuzana and Mik, who might be two of my all time favorite secondary characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Sexual violence, Blood, and Death

jadehusdanhicks'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? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

THE WAY THE ENDING HAD MY DROP TIME AND TIME AGAIN. I can tell already this series will be one I love and appreciate for a long time truly. And I will be diving almost straight into the final one. 

I felt turmultuous as the back and forth between Akiva and karou and the angels and chimera but I still wasn’t ready for the end and cannot wait to see where they’ll take us. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Slavery, Vomit, Abandonment, Medical content, Murder, Gore, War, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence

scarlett_f's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Confinement, Grief, Gore, Sexual assault, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Vomit, Violence, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, War, and Torture

ashley_elizabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

4.0

Wow, this was a hard book to read. I certainly did not expect picking up this YA fantasy would mean delving into pain, grief, war, and other terrible things. While a challenging read in many ways, it was also incredibly enthralling and really made me want to keep reading. It's been a long time since a book held my attention in such a manner! I'm very, very interested to see where these various plot points land...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, War, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

kayelina's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Torture, Self harm, and Death

Moderate: War, Suicide, Physical abuse, Genocide, and Rape

Minor: Incest

ek4therin4h's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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: Violence, Blood, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual assault

lisashelves's review

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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Rape

donatio's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

Writing style was as good as in the first one and I still liked the characters, especially Ziri and Liraz.
Also liked that we finally got to see the way the angels live, since Book 1 was more about the chimaera. 

Spoiler

In the middle, when Karou was on Earth, resurrecting chimaera the pacing felt off, nothing happened for a hundred pages. 
The characters who were introduced newly felt quite forced, even if they played major roles later. Why didn't we hear about Joram's son before Akiva & Co killed him?
I would have also liked a clearer explanation on how the bodies for the resurrections are made do they just appear, or... ?

Solid read, all in all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Misogyny, Violence, War, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Abandonment, Body horror, Genocide, and Medical content

yaelaed's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Blood, Death, and Genocide

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Self harm, and Sexual assault