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readingwithkt's review
I had high hopes for this title but it wasn't what I was expecting it to be.
There is a lot of heavy, graphic violence on-page which just felt superfluous. When it got to the point that two male characters were approaching a woman Sleeper in her family home (asleep outwith her control) and being sexually aroused by the fact that they could do anything to her and she wouldn't remember... I genuinely just felt sick reading that shit. I don't care to know where that storyline goes.
There is also a lot of gore and on-page graphic violence - heads exploding etc., which is just really not my thing. Reminds me more of a teenage boy's computer game or something.
Besides all this, from my initial reading of the blurb, I assumed the entire plot was focused on a future setting, but there are flashbacks to the time at which people became forced to be Sleepers. I really didn't enjoy this storyline and just had no interest in it. It's also where most of the graphic violence happened up until this point, and I found myself skipping over large sections to avoid reading the graphic details.
There is a lot of heavy, graphic violence on-page which just felt superfluous. When it got to the point that two male characters were approaching a woman Sleeper in her family home (asleep outwith her control) and being sexually aroused by the fact that they could do anything to her and she wouldn't remember... I genuinely just felt sick reading that shit. I don't care to know where that storyline goes.
There is also a lot of gore and on-page graphic violence - heads exploding etc., which is just really not my thing. Reminds me more of a teenage boy's computer game or something.
Besides all this, from my initial reading of the blurb, I assumed the entire plot was focused on a future setting, but there are flashbacks to the time at which people became forced to be Sleepers. I really didn't enjoy this storyline and just had no interest in it. It's also where most of the graphic violence happened up until this point, and I found myself skipping over large sections to avoid reading the graphic details.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Murder, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Gore, and Police brutality
Minor: Rape
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