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Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence
Graphic: Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Sexual assault
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual violence
Minor: Sexism, Trafficking
The characters were extremely annoying; I know that a lot of Effy's reactions are trauma responses and stem from a lifetime of being told she's crazy, but it didn't make me like her any more. I also found the romance really unbelievable, it didn't feel like Effy and Preston spent enough time together or formed enough of a bond (apart from shared experiences of danger), but they've somehow managed to fall in love?
I was really disappointed with the world building, it felt incomplete and lazy. From the names etc it's clearly based on Wales, but exists in this unnamed world in a made up country that somehow still has the same technology as us?? It's a fantasy setting, but with technology from like 60 years ago (cars, phone booths, a typewriter), that's never explained. There's a conflict with another country called Argant that's never explained properly, there was a drowning ~200 years ago that's also never explained properly. The date system seems to be before drowning and after drowning (BD and AD), but then the country supposedly doesn't care about the south or the bottom 100 so why tf would they restart their entire year system to mark that event? There's also an entire religious system, based around Saints, that's also never explained properly and is only mentioned when it's useful (e.g. Effy is named after a Saint, and prays to a Saint exactly once).
This book had the possibility to be something really good and special, exploring the issues of misogyny, mental illness, male entitlement, and the sexual harassment of women. But it's all just lost in bad characters and bad world building. Also the plot and the reveal were entirely predictable, so getting the characters to come to the right conclusion was such a drag. For supposedly clever academic intellectuals they were pretty dumb.
Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism
Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Classism
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Alcohol, War
This captured me from the very first sentence and I didn't have any say in the matter. Thank goodness for my husband or else I would've starved I was so deep in between these pages.
Spooky, faeries, scholars against misogyny, enchanting, enticing. Thats all im able to say right now.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Death of parent, Abandonment
Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, Alcohol
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexism
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment
Minor: Child abuse, Abandonment
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Sexual content, War