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A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

13 reviews

gracewiley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

bashsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

This book is soooo long and the space & energy for writing a review is so short, yet I shall forge on. A Day of Fallen Night is just as incredible as The Priory of the Orange Tree - if not moreso. Although I read Priory over a year ago now, slipping into this prequel was much easier than getting into the first book. The worldbuilding and the lore came back to me quickly, prodded along by the fact that this is meant to be readable as a standalone. Sometimes that quality can be repetative when you read multiple books in the same universe, but here it was just a boon. 

A short list of things I liked about this book: 

• Always amuses me that Shannon not only made Fantasy Catholicism but also made it canonically false.
• Addition of nonbinary rep - including nonbinary titles! I love the terms Mastress and Lade. 
• Addition of other trans rep - there are at least two trans men & just like the gay relationships, no one bats an eye at them. 
• Thrit, I am emotionally invested in this secondary character, he is the best.
• Gay-on-gay-on-gay violence at one of the climaxes
  where all the narrators run into each other.

No complaints, 100% recommend, I can't wait for the next book in this universe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and Colonisation

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, and Cannibalism

heartbrekker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Pregnancy, and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

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