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Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual harassment
Minor: Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Murder
Moderate: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Abandonment
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
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our FMC getting SA'd as a little girl by a ghost and then later in college having to watch a video of her friend being r*ped was enough for me.
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Murder
Minor: Body horror
SYNOPSIS:
"Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?" Goodreads.
MY THOUGHTS:
🐍 I was gripped by the first 1/3 of this book, learning about the MC Alex, Yale, and the secret societies and the darkness that surrounds them.
🐍 But then, sooooooo many words, without much narrative, lots and lots of descriptions that I did not enjoy.
🐍 I don't know if this is normally how Bardugo writes (as this is my first of theirs) but it was not to my taste.
🐍 Some of the graphic violence/sexual assaults felt included for shock factor rather than the plot and some felt unnecessary. And that's from someone who can enjoy dark horror.
🐍 It felt soooooo loooooong.
🐍 I'm not sure there were any characters I was that fussed about.
🐍 Overall a bit MEH for me I'm afraid.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail