Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

7 reviews

annamorgan27's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Sexual content

lauramcc7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.5

I'm obsessed with how gender and sexualities were incorporated into this fantasy so easily. Like it so diverse and done so well!! I really liked the characters and just the world building was superb, huge fan

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

3arth2kaye's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cursing, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

aas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

introverted_reads's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and War

bashsbooks'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? It's complicated

5.0

This book is soooo long and the space & energy for writing a review is so short, yet I shall forge on. A Day of Fallen Night is just as incredible as The Priory of the Orange Tree - if not moreso. Although I read Priory over a year ago now, slipping into this prequel was much easier than getting into the first book. The worldbuilding and the lore came back to me quickly, prodded along by the fact that this is meant to be readable as a standalone. Sometimes that quality can be repetative when you read multiple books in the same universe, but here it was just a boon. 

A short list of things I liked about this book: 

• Always amuses me that Shannon not only made Fantasy Catholicism but also made it canonically false.
• Addition of nonbinary rep - including nonbinary titles! I love the terms Mastress and Lade. 
• Addition of other trans rep - there are at least two trans men & just like the gay relationships, no one bats an eye at them. 
• Thrit, I am emotionally invested in this secondary character, he is the best.
• Gay-on-gay-on-gay violence at one of the climaxes
  where all the narrators run into each other.

No complaints, 100% recommend, I can't wait for the next book in this universe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and Colonisation

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, and Cannibalism