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I will say, in its length, the plot becomes lost amongst the tumultuous political landscape. As an anthropology major, this book presents a stunning array of political and personal statements about power, truth, and suffering of humanity. It showed a very philosophical and well-read background from the author, who was able to build complex characters whom you still rooted for— despite the suffering endured, despite thinking in oppsing ways. In its essence, the book is about putting power back into the hands of people whom make up the community they serve. Nobody is correct, only striving to be better than the old regime that came before them.
As an aside, to the author: all those wonderful sensual scenes and you couldn't elaborate on the one thing you used to advertise this book to me?? I needed a longer pegging scene than a paragraph, love.
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, War, Classism
Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Violence, War
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Blood, Death of parent, Classism
Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual content, Medical trauma, War
Graphic: Violence, War
Moderate: Sexual content
Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Murder, Alcohol, War
Minor: Child abuse
New love interests, conflicts and revelations made this a compelling sequel to Iron Widow.
I do think we hit a bit of information overload at the end, and I found some of the action at the end a bit hard to follow. But, overall, I enjoyed this second book and look forward to the third.
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Classism
Moderate: Violence, War
Minor: Sexual content, Medical content
Moderate: Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Classism
Graphic: Sexism, Violence, War, Classism
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Classism
Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Gore, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation
Graphic: Violence, War
Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Sexual harassment
Minor: Miscarriage, Pregnancy