Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - Sorrow and Starlight

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Sorrow and Starlight by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

16 reviews

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.75

I’m so confused. This book dragged on, and almost went on my DNF list - which is extremely rare, and especially since I actually want to know how everything turns out for these characters.

The story has been building and building over the first 7 books and then randomly in the last 10-15% of book 8, a bunch of loose ends get tied up, only for the whole story to unravel again in the last couple of chapters and leave us on a weird cliffhanger. Not only that, but the next two books in the series are apparently backtracks from different perspectives - the next one says it’s a retelling of the first book from the Heirs’ POV, and the currently final book in the series (book 10) says it’s a retelling from the POV of those that have passed. So we’ll be left on this cliffhanger with no foreseeable ending through at least two more books before we can pick up and go again.

The first few books really sucked me in, but the story is now spiraling wildly out of control with no ending in sight - pretty disappointed, as I’m now invested in this story through the first several books, but after book 8, I’m not sure I want to continue, despite still wanting to see how things turn out.

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maddysbooks_'s review against another edition

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adventurous 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

3.25

holy shit this book took me forever to finish. i’m not sure what exactly i was thinking a year ago when i read the other books in this series, but i did not enjoy this one as much as the others.
getting through this book has put me in such a reading slump and i think it’s just because of how unnecessarily long it is. the majority of this book was not needed to move the plot further along and most of the plot took place in the last 10 percent of the book.
the ending of the book was good and i sailed through it, but for me that didn’t make up for the first 90 percent of the book.
i will say my favorite parts were focused around seth and caleb’s relationship and i loved the tension we got to see between the two of them throughout the story. it was definitely what i looked forward to the most throughout reading and their relationship is what kept me reading the book.

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kotahlotah's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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juliette_95's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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ells___'s review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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fblizz's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

This was a buddy read and as such it is always difficult for me to rate these books. I feel like a prude when I am reading the very descriptive sex scenes. I just skim over them. I find them distracting from the overall storylines and characters which are so well developed that it is hard to put the book down. I am looking forward to the next book to see where the authors go with the sudden plot twist they dropped at the end.

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