Did we really need whole ass chapters of Siyu running away then brought back then running away then brought back!

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Motherhood and pregnancy are topics explored with such care and so much purpose in this novel from so many different perspectives. At its core, A Day of Fallen Night is a story about mothers and daughters, and that visceral, unbreakable connection. Changing spellings is so typical of ancient texts, and as you study the same thing over centuries it will be spelled in ten thousand different ways by anyone writing about it. The dragons in this universe and especially in this book are more like stand-ins for natural disasters.Secondly: the fact that the Berethnet queens are all over six feet tall is my favourite tidbit from this book.

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The sheer effort and commitment in writing such a comprehensive book is to be commended, but it does not stop there because Shannon also provides the images of the global landscape, an explanation of the characters and their roles and even a glossary of terms to help the reader. A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon's sprawling, breathtaking prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree, soars as it expands her beautiful world of warrior nuns, queens and dragons with a new era of catastrophe and heroism . We frail humans cannot generally stand in the path of an earthquake or a volcanic eruption and expect to emerge the victor, and it is the same with the wyrms or western dragons, and to a lesser extent the hybrid creatures who follow them. The three lead protagonists represent each major region of the world—East, West, and South—which have very different religions, political structures, and cultures.Shannon skillfully grounds high-stakes fantasy action in human emotion and a mature exploration of duty, bodily autonomy, identity, and motherhood. When a global disaster hits, you may be striving to survive and find solutions, but so are other people on the other side of the world - people you have never met and will likely never know about.