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Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting
Moderate: Confinement, Excrement, Abandonment
Minor: Death of parent
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 4.5 stars
Plot: 3.5 stars
Worldbuilding: 3.5 stars
Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Abandonment, Classism
Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Genocide, Homophobia, Sexism, Transphobia, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Grief, Colonisation
Minor: Death of parent, Gaslighting
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, Gaslighting
Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment
Minor: Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexism, Transphobia, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Gaslighting
Moderate: Bullying, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Classism
Minor: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation
Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism, Deportation
I thought this book was an excellent followup to House in the Cerulean Sea. It gave me much pleasure to see these characters in play again, as the first novel is one of my favorites.
I think if you have read the first novel and crave that warmth of this family again, you will certainly find it in Somewhere Beyond The Sea.
Graphic: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Gaslighting
Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting
Minor: Sexism, Excrement, Religious bigotry
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent
Minor: Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting