zoiejanelle's review against another edition
- 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
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.
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
meganpbell's review against another edition
- 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
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
good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Violence, and War
Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, and Pregnancy
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide
queerreaderchaos's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: War, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Blood, and Death
Moderate: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Suicide
Minor: Torture
annamorgan27's review against another edition
- 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
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
lizziaha's review against another edition
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Violence, and War
Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Gore, and Abandonment
Minor: Mental illness and Cannibalism
lauramcc7's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Violence, Abandonment, Cursing, War, Suicide, and Pregnancy
shaipanda's review against another edition
- 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
While this wasn’t a book where I felt i absolutely needed to pick it up after work, it was incredibly well done and I absolutely loved the reading experience!! It also definitely made me wanna reread Priory :)
Also Samantha Shannon does character development just so amazingly I love it
Graphic: Death, Violence, and War
Moderate: Animal death, Pregnancy, and Sexual content
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide
bookshelfmonkey's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: War, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Blood, Death, Grief, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
Moderate: Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, and Gore
Minor: Rape, Cannibalism, Torture, and Suicide
thecheryl's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
- 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.
Graphic: Child death and Sexual content
Moderate: Religious bigotry