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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

19 reviews

iriwindel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Gore, Abortion, Suicide, Blood, and Infidelity

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Pregnancy, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Homophobia

vilma_ellen's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Abortion, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship

ninjamuse's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Self harm, and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Pregnancy, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide attempt and Racial slurs

frances_frances's review

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is basically a series of vignettes of 4 specific people's lives. There's no plot; instead there's a running narrative of the characters daily experiences during and after the war. This was sometimes really interesting and sometimes a tad boring. However, Sarah Waters' writing is so beautiful and engaging that it makes slow, drawn out stories become compelling page turners. The Night Watch is the last Waters novel I had left to read. I have my favorite books of her's (Fingersmith and The Little Stranger), but all of them are well worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, War, Death, Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death

camix_2000's review

dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, and Self harm

elaoise_benson's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Suicide

elikolina's review against another edition

emotional reflective

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicide

gravys's review

adventurous emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Pregnancy, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Abortion, and War

lilly_anne's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Infidelity, Self harm, War, Blood, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Medical content, Sexual content, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Racial slurs and Fire/Fire injury

evaorbit's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I was interested in this book when reading it, but I didn’t really fall in love with any of the characters. I think the addition of Duncan’s story didn’t add much and the pacing felt off. The Kay/Julia/Helen situation was interesting, but it kind of made me dislike all of them. All of that said, I really enjoyed the world building, which is always my favorite part of Sarah Waters’ books. I would recommend this if you’ve already read a couple of her books, but I don’t recommend this as your first one. The time jumps were intriguing but felt a little forced and underdeveloped- which is surprising for a 500+ page book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Suicide, and Self harm