Reviews tagging 'War'

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

142 reviews

rachelh92'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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

nat20charisma's review against another edition

4.75

I liked this much better than the Priory of the Orange Tree. I enjoyed following the characters from a young age and watching them grow up. My only issue with it was that it dragged a bit in the middle, but that’s to be expected with such a dense fantasy story. 

This was also a great pick to read for June! It had fantastic LGBTQ+ representation. 

I can’t decide if it’s better to read PotOT first or aDoFN. I think it could be read in either order, but there is a lot of discussion of the mother and the saint in this book that wouldn’t make sense unless you read Priory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and War

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Suicide

phoenixfire's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

atalea's review against another edition

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

cjbrimmer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War and Pandemic/Epidemic

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

sophie221010's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

5.0

Favourite book of all time. Have read it twice now and it just keeps getting better. Funny, devastating and hopeful. Perfect read for anyone looking for a delicious read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death and Religious bigotry

Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

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