Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

76 reviews

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

imgunnagetyou's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

3.25

 general non spoilery thoughts: honestly, i like priory better than this lol. genuinely shannon needa lay off the pregnancy horror cause this is worse than all the actual horror books i read. i hope if she writes more books in this world, there wont be so much lol i like the world but all that shit just makes me want to die

spoilers for whole book in this review. MEGA CONTENT WARNING: pregnancy horror to the fucking max in this book ! read at ur own risk if you have any sort of phobia. i wanted to kms at some points in this book my guy

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first and foremost , Siyu is literally the most useless character i have ever read in a book. holy shit. i wish she fucking died. absolutely useless and unfortunately lives( you have no idea how excited it was when i thought she died near the end bruh). there couldve been better ways to get tunava to see dreadmount erupt and (second time, SECOND, that siyu runs away) bond with canthe. if i had 3 wishes, one of them would be to rewrite this book without that shit head siyu in it :)

 

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second, sometimes i lowkey hate medieval fiction. the law states that glorian cant offically be queen until 18, but apparently they are okay with her being married and having a child at 16. "hurry up and have children useless woman" head ass book

 

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  third , atleast with the pregnancy horror in priory we dont have to see though sabrans pov and shes actually like 29 years old. in this book, its literally throughout the entire book and two of the charas that get pregnant are fucking 16 and one of them you read the pov of. yardy know i skip the birthing scene. kill me. 

 

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last, like priory, i feel like the last battle was extremely lack luster and thats sad. i enjoyed most of the relationships, but why the fuck did she kill off dumai bruh 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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: Blood, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide

georgialee01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful 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

Graphic: Blood and Pregnancy

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Cannibalism and Suicide

o_w_e_n's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Pregnancy

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

queerreaderchaos's review against another edition

adventurous 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: War, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Suicide

Minor: Torture

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

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Glorian Shieldheart what a fucking badass. I got literal chills during some of her scenes. I also appreciated that this book was even more gay than Priory. Truly iconic. The way that Shannon integrates a whole cast of different identities into these books is honestly inspiring. Because of the length of the book, some of the slow reveals really kept me invested. All in all, I’d love to keep reading from this world! 

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Content Warnings

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

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