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Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism
Minor: Genocide, Racial slurs, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Stalking
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, Murder, Classism
Minor: Cannibalism, Alcohol, War, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Vomit, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Genocide, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Slavery, War
Graphic: Death, Gun violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Cannibalism, Murder
Minor: Genocide, War
Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Racism, Colonisation, War
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Torture
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Beautiful composition, balancing the fun time travel adventure romp with more grave issues and ideas.
As an EFL speaker, I really do not understand why everyone is complaining about the vocabulary in this. The style of narration fits the MC perfectly and your reading flow isn’t hindered by not knowing exactly how the rain is falling.
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, War
Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Medical content
Minor: Lesbophobia, Colonisation, Classism
Maybe it's just because I don't read this genre often, but I found the first two-thirds so hard to get into. There are only 10 chapters (plus a few pages before each that give an account from Graham's perspective), and they're LONG, which made it feel like it was taking forever to get through. Sometimes it got hard to follow plot-wise, but that's only partly because of the long chapters and mostly because I'm not a sci-fi girlie.
That being said, I really liked the characters--especially Graham and Maggie--though I found the narrator kind of felt a bit like an unreliable narrator at times (though maybe that was the point?). And I was genuinely surprised by a few of the plot twists at the end!
TLDR: I didn't dislike it, but it's not something I'll reread. Chapters were too long, but really liked the characters.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence
Moderate: Racism, Grief, Cannibalism
Minor: Misogyny, War, Injury/Injury detail
There are some very well-presented insights into culture and cultural transition. Some of my favourite parts of this book were when past and present attitudes were compared.
The pace was a bit off in the middle - lots of rehashing the same ground. But the end made up for it. A solid 4/5.
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Murder, War
The first half was delightful and because I had seen only mixed reviews about the book I kept wondering "what is going to go wrong in the second half?"
Then I guessed something that, I'm not certain the author is really hiding from the reader, and I thought I know what would mar the ending. But that element was used more interestingly than I expected.
What really made this a three star for me and not something higher is that the first 70% or so of the book felt like it was building towards something narratively and thematically but ultimately that was messy. I think the messiness might work for the narrative but I wanted more clarity around theme.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content
Minor: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War