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Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Gun violence
Minor: Racism, Slavery, War
At first my feelings were more mixed. Commander Graham Gore is a relentlessly charming person, and there are a handful of other characters I enjoyed (Margaret Kemble and Simellia). But the deeper I got, the more messy the book became. By the time
My gods did I hate the protagonist. She is an extremely passive person who only cares about not rocking the boat and pinning for the guy she likes. I've never found myself saying "oh fuck you" out loud to a protagonist before, and I said it to her twice. I've also never found myself in complete agreement with an antagonist before. She's just such a shitty person, but not even in an interesting way. I also don't think that
I feel like the parts of the book that are the most interesting are when it's talking about being a first-generation child of immigrants or being mixed-race. Most of the book is close to being a non-speculative literary novel anyway and I wish it had stayed that way. The book doesn't really comfortably fit in a genre, and on some level I'm irritated that Chain-Gang All-Stars was "too literary" for the Hugos but this isn't? And to add to its tally of sins, this book also doesn't understand how diseases and immune systems work.
This is the clearest case of "no award" I've ever encountered, and how it got nominated for anything I will be confused about until I die.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Sexism, Slavery, Kidnapping, Colonisation
Minor: Cannibalism, Death of parent, War, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content
Minor: Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence
Moderate: Violence, War
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War
Moderate: Homophobia, Slavery
Minor: Biphobia
Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Sexual content, Colonisation
Minor: Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Sexism, Slavery, Cannibalism, Lesbophobia, War, Deportation
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Infidelity, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content
Minor: Homophobia, Death of parent, War
Graphic: Racism, War