Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

76 reviews

beebeewin's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

Another great novel by Samantha Shannon within the world of the Priory of the Orange Tree! While I don't think this is my favorite fantasy book, I do like it better than Priory of the Orange Tree. I think Shannon's world building, character writing, and battles in this novel were fantastic. She really provided us deep character moments that made them feel so human and real. Especially, in a world so uncertain and full of natural disasters and disease, much like ours, Shannon made the characters and behaviors feel so true to life. As with her other books, I appreciate the queerness of the book and appreciated getting to see all kinds of relationships and sexualities represented. She pulled no punches and the ending destroyed me a little. I would say in comparison to the other book in this series, because everything was out in the open for every character in the beginning we got to spend more time with all of them and learn about their worlds. My only complaint is similar to the other book in the series, is that the ending felt a little rushed. I wanted to more in the battle and get to see the emotions and thoughts of all of our characters! I honestly might recommend this book more than Priory of the Orange Tree, especially of you are a little bisexual like me as there is plenty of cute love and intense emotionally wrecking action to go around!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

_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

latida94's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Death of parent

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

atalea's review

adventurous dark 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Body horror

awkwardimagination's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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? Yes

3.5

I finished this last night in kind of a rush so that may have hurt my opinion a little, but I think it stands.

This book was kind of the opposite of the first book, in terms of literary elements. While the plot and pacing have the same strength, I found I didn't like the plot of this one as much as the second one. The fact that I knew so much about the world already also hurt it a little, because I found myself getting frustrated with a lot of the character motivations and actions. Speaking of characters; I liked the characters a lot more in this book then the first one. Oh my god- In the first one I really only formed a connection with Ead, in terms of mcs, and just really liked Tané. Loth felt flat to me and Niclays was just fucking annoying. My favourite characters in the first book were mainly background characters. In this one, I truly loved every mc. Glorian was my fav through out, I fucking adore her (false prophet aside), Dumai was also kickass and I liked her a lot. I felt sympathetic toward Tunuva and liked her well enough, but the other characters in her parts (Esbar and Canthe) bittered her story. I started the story feeling the same way about Wulf, as I did about Loth, but by the end of it Wulf was my guy - I fucking love him. 

God did I like how this ended, it was strong and honestly shocking I was not expecting some of the people who died to die. And dont get me wrong, while i did not like the plot of this book as much, does not mean this had a bad plot; I very much enjoyed getting to watch the setup of all the pieces for Priory of the Orange Tree (except for Tané's jewel that confuses me) and seeing all the places and people that we only heard about. God, I love me some world building!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death and Suicide

chanlo1994's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

This book differs, in a good way, from its predecessor by focusing its conflict more on the supernatural elements than the political ones. It still felt like the same.universe but we got to see so much more that was left to be discovered from the first book. I enjoyed it very much. I'd love to see a book detailing the original Dreadmount eruption and the Snow Maiden

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, and Death of parent

lemonyanne'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? Yes

5.0

SUCH a good prequel to Priory of the Orange Tree!! So obsessed with this and could see it all so perfectly and cinematically. Somehow even better than POTOT and that’s saying something! Queer characters, POC rep and incredible fantasy plot ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

bitter_critter'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Kidnapping