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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
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Rape
Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment