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ninjamuse's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Medical content, and Abortion
Minor: Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Pandemic/Epidemic
lorraine19's review against another edition
3.5
However, I feel like the formatting was completely distracting and inconsistent. There were also points it was difficult to follow the stories or it seemed like transitions were missing. It's hard to say how much of this was the writer vs the translators though. (Leaning towards it being translation as there are 2 distinct styles and I have previously read articles by this author.)
Overall, I felt like having the book formatted as short stories or a collection of interviews/articles rather than a novel would have made it much easier to follow. But it does not take away from the importance of topics discussed and the very real, yet dystopian, stories of people living in Russia.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, War, and Classism
Moderate: Cursing, Hate crime, Trafficking, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail