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Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Abandonment
Moderate: Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Death, Death of parent
Graphic: Child abuse, Xenophobia
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Death of parent
Minor: Cursing, Grief
Moderate: Genocide, Colonisation
Minor: Child abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War
Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse
Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Racial slurs, War
Graphic: Child abuse, Xenophobia
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Death of parent
Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent
The components I loved were that this book comforting, hopeful, and full of lovable characters that I wanted more of after finishing the first book.
However the main plot of this book felt a bit like a rerun of the original and at points some of the fight against DICOMY/DICOMA felt more preachy than anyone actually doing anything. I was left wishing that the book had instead been split: focused on the challenges and joys of adopting David and then a third focusing on fighting DICOMY/DICOMA/for social change/etc.
While I liked the shift of focus from Talia and Lucy to Sal and Theodore and David - creating a sort of balance between the two books - I felt like the personal growth Sal had to get to his outspoken character in this book was missing in this book (I get that there was some in book one but it still felt like a leap from where we left him).
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Death of parent, Classism
Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation