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Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

33 reviews

cayleybp's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.25

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hopelessromanticbookworm's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective 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

4.0

β€œπΌ π‘€π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘‘ π‘‘π‘œ β„Žπ‘’π‘Žπ‘™ π‘¦π‘œπ‘’,” π‘ β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘Žπ‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘‘. β€œπ‘Œπ‘œπ‘’ 𝑑𝑖𝑑,” β„Žπ‘’ π‘ π‘Žπ‘–π‘‘, π‘ π‘šπ‘–π‘™π‘–π‘›π‘”. β€œπ‘Œπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘›π‘’, 𝑖𝑛 π‘’π‘£π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘¦ π‘€π‘Žπ‘¦ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘™π‘¦ π‘šπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘  … π‘Œπ‘œπ‘’ 𝑑𝑖𝑑.” πΆβ„Žπ‘Žπ‘œπ‘™ 𝑀𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑑 π‘Žπ‘€π‘Žπ‘¦ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘œπ‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘  π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙, π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ β„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘” π‘Ž π‘˜π‘–π‘ π‘  π‘‘π‘œ β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ β„Žπ‘œπ‘‘ π‘β„Žπ‘’π‘’π‘˜.β€œ

I found this book hard to get into. I’m not sure if it was my mood or the story itself or even a mixture of both. In the end, even though I am not an audiobook listener, I thought I would try it and see if it would help me through the book. Funny enough it did as I listened and also followed along on the kindle app.

I felt the story started off quite slow probably why I felt like it dragged on. But when the story started to pick up it got interesting. 

 I loved that Sarah showed how the injury impacted Chaol both physically and mentally really well. And that’s something rare as some books just skim over those important things. Personally I suffer with mental health so seeing how withdrawn and frustrated Chaol got felt relatable.

The building of new friendships and relationships are the heartfelt moments I loved between each couple and how their feelings grew while trying to figure out how to stop the Vlag.
The different personalities between  the Khagan’s children was interesting, even though sometimes I either wanted to slap one of the children or strangle one πŸ˜…

Borte (Sartaq’s Hearth-Sister) is hilarious 🀣 the banter between Sartaq and Borte kept me laughing especially when Nesryn got involved in the banter. I loved The Rukhin group especially the Ruks Kadara and Salkhi! 😍

 It was always a mystery on who was killing people/trying to go after Yrene but once that was revealed who it was, I really wasn’t expecting that. Even what Nesryn & Sartaq found out was shocking but still to be honest made sense a little πŸ˜…

There was an animal death that was just heartbreaking πŸ’” that wasn’t nice to hear 😭

It was a good read and had great relationship/world building and physical/mental representation ☺️ x
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sierrabowers's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I think this book was a good addition to the throne of glass series, but it was definitely not the best one. If I hadn’t done the tandem read, it would have been dreadful. I think the only way people should read this book is in conjunction with empire of storms. The ending was not as enthralling as EOS but definitely gave me motivation to hurry into Kingdom of Ash!!!! I think the journey that Chaol went through emotionally and physically is very important and shows the strength of people who live with physical disabilities. 
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aileron's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional 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

3.0

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savvyrosereads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Rating: 5/5 stars.

Absolutely adored this, and adored the tandem read with EoS.  Definitely a shift from the rest of the series but utterly outstanding in its own right. There are apparently people out there who skip this one, to which I say….are you okay??? I absolutely LOVED this book, and found it to be a refreshing change of pace (ish, since I was tandem reading).
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nerdkitten's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

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chuckielittle's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-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
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kat1105's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

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jen1804's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I actually ended up really enjoying this book. I wish I’d read it individually rather than in tandem with Empire of Storms to allow myself time to become absorbed and invested in each book separately rather than them seeping together.
In my opinion this paled in comparison to EOS because there was so much action going on in EOS and I wanted to keep reading EOS that I found I was annoyed when I had to return for some TOD chapters. However toward the second half of my tandem read I started reading bigger chunks of each book and actually I think this is a really important read and gives the reader some more insight into Chaol and his inner thoughts.
This is a book with a beautiful love story romantically but also a love story where Chaol learns acceptance and learns to love himself again after so much trauma and self loathing. I found the ending rather emotional and cannot wait for the final book because I know the intertwining of all of these characters finally coming together is actually going to be incredible.
Satisfactory ending? Yes.
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helpme71's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

5.0

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