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Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Rape, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, Classism
Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Infidelity
Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Suicide, Death of parent
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy
I really enjoy this kind of storytelling which I feel is reminiscent of Cloud Cuckoo Land and the Night Circus, but this is very much a reflective "what if the world unraveled around you" kind of a story with very different themes than the other two books. It might be a weird comparison but in the case of all 3 books I feel you're a bit caught up in a fever dream where you piece together the story across multiple times, persons and places, with there being common threads through it all and a general feeling of hope.
That being said this is very much the dystopian/world-is-ending type of speculative fiction that feels all too close, perhaps even more so now than at its original publication 10 years ago. In this story, a pandemic takes the world by storm. Our tale follows several different characters of various ages and walks of life. They all have some connection to a specific King Lear production whose lead actor died of a heart attack just before the world followed suit.
Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship
Graphic: Infidelity, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Grief
Minor: Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Murder
Minor: Suicide
Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic