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Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Sexual content
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol
Minor: Bullying, Police brutality
The story was riveting, the characters are engaging, and the world building is constant. Rachel Gillig has a wonderful way with words that just made me want to cling to every sentence as I turned through the pages.
Character development isn't really a thing that happens in this book it's more about character revelations as we get to see the people behind their masks - their real motivations rather than the MC's preconceptions. However, this approach makes it feel like it's the Nightmare's story and Elspeth is the POV character as she is the only constant character that does not change while we follow her around. It's interesting and different.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol
Minor: Cursing, Terminal illness, Death of parent
looking forward to reading book two!
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent
Minor: Child abuse, Child death
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Violence, Murder
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Confinement
Gothic, mystical, yet darkly cozy.
the romance was cute but definitely needed more fleshing out as everything happened within the span of a couple weeks.
the worldbuilding! yes ma’am, I hope that in the next book the world kinda opens up a bit more but with the way this book ended I don’t think we’re going very far.
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism