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A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

40 reviews

zoiejanelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

I WISH I COULD GIVE THIS BOOK TEN STARS. i dare say it was even better than The Priory of the Orange Tree, but only because it had such a fantastic book as a foundation. 
A Day Of Fallen Night built upon the lush and brilliant world of Priory and expanded upon the mythos and magic i fell in love with in Priory. the story was much faster in this book, with multiple viscerally real and flawed storytellers that made me fall in love time and time again. the plot was so deep, so intricately woven, and there was not a single point (past page 100) where i felt comfortable putting the book down for too long. 
although the audience somewhat knew the story that the book would tell, the devil is truly in the details. the characters and their arcs truly made this book worth reading and enriched the lore of the world tenfold. getting to know the players in the folklore intimately was just magical… i will never read Priory the same way. 
also… the romance in this book was NEXT LEVEL. i did not think Samantha Shannon could top Ead and Sabran, but i was very, very wrong. the two main romances in this story were sapphic, which i loved, and all mentioned partnerships were extremely three-dimensional and believable. i won’t put spoilers here, but the enemies to lovers was SERVING in this book and i wept MULTIPLE TIMES over one particular couple. and over other things as well.
this book simultaneously re-opened and healed some aching wounds inside me—wounds surrounding womanhood, motherhood, family, religion, love, duty, and identity. i was a complete sniveling mess for the last ~150 pages of the book, but i wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. 
Samantha Shannon has done it again. A Day Of Fallen Night is truly a masterpiece. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Grief, Body horror, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Sexual content, War, Infidelity, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Body horror, Alcohol, Xenophobia, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

Minor: Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, and Abortion

crownoflaurel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

meganpbell's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

A glorious, epic, feminist, fantasy masterpiece !!! This prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree had me acting out scenes and saying lines out loud, it was that beautiful, badass, and moving.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Sexism, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Animal death, Child death, Murder, Religious bigotry, War, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Medical content, and Gore

kristinrdub's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

A masterpiece of fantasy. Truly feels as if I’ve uncovered a tomb with the history of a long-forgotten world. Slow to start but once you have a grasp of the many characters the story unfolds quickly and marvelously.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

Minor: Child death

bookswithbethx's review

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, War, Murder, Blood, Violence, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Child death

Moderate: Abortion, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

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

Moderate: Sexual content

maddalynmoon's review

adventurous challenging inspiring 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Blood, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Violence, Abortion, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Child death, Sexism, and War

grets_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Xenophobia, Suicide, Vomit, and Kidnapping

erin1339's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Blood, Child death, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Animal death

thecheryl's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

The worldbuilding is just as lush and beautifully written as Priory. Glorian's character arc is everything I was hoping for. But there were a few things that I found disappointing.

- There were multiple story elements added that actively undermined the story elements of book one.

- It felt padded out in an attempt to make it as chunky as Priory, which really dragged out not only some of the story lines but also some of the character development.

- It took me most of the way through the book to put my finger on this, but Priory felt like Epic Fantasy with intricate characters included. Fallen Night felt like a book about the intricacies of the characters' lives in an epic fantasy setting. Neither is better than the other, but I wish that tone hadn't switched between books. 

This book was beautiful, I wish it hadn't spend so much time trying to foreshadow Priory and allude to what we all knew was going to happen. It should have been more confident standing on its own two feet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Sexual content

Moderate: Religious bigotry