Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

58 reviews

selimhannah's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Abortion, Alcohol, and Colonisation

chatdombre's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

3.0

The first half was really good and very emotional, possibly the most I’ve ever cried while reading a book. In the second half, the pacing got really weird. It was fast at times it could have been slower and slow at times it could’ve been faster.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Death and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

_persephone's review against another edition

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: Death, Blood, Grief, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

nanascorner's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

wlewis98's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad 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

5.0

A big improvement over Priory of the Orange Tree! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

princessrory's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Colonisation

dhiyanah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Abandonment

fin_pilot's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Child death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Suicide

nat20charisma's review against another edition

4.75

I liked this much better than the Priory of the Orange Tree. I enjoyed following the characters from a young age and watching them grow up. My only issue with it was that it dragged a bit in the middle, but that’s to be expected with such a dense fantasy story. 

This was also a great pick to read for June! It had fantastic LGBTQ+ representation. 

I can’t decide if it’s better to read PotOT first or aDoFN. I think it could be read in either order, but there is a lot of discussion of the mother and the saint in this book that wouldn’t make sense unless you read Priory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and War

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Suicide

gardens_and_dragons'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? No

5.0

Fabulous complex characters, great story beats that all wove together in a satisfying way, tense politics and awesome dragons. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death and Abandonment

Minor: Child death