A Day of Fallen Night
A prequel to Priory set five centuries earlier, following four women as the wyrms wake. Longer, sadder and better constructed than the book it precedes, and readable first without losing anything. On the House's scale it rates 2 for spice (warm), 3 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. Readers who want the most ambitious dragon worldbuilding currently in print.
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How it rates
- Author
- Samantha Shannon
- Series
- The Roots of Chaos, book 2 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 2 out of 5, Warm2/5 · Warm
- Romance
- 3/5
- Plot
- 5/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- The same two hemispheres, five hundred years earlier
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 320
On the spice rating Occasional and brief. The relationships matter far more than the scenes do. How the scale works.
Content warnings childbirth, plague, war, grief, death of a child.
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