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doodeedoda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, War, Abortion, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Homophobia
Minor: Infidelity, Addiction, Alcohol, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Vomit, Biphobia, and Blood
ofbooksandechos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gun violence
Moderate: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Abortion
Minor: Rape, Pedophilia, and Ableism
additional tw: racism and allusions to the massacre of indigenous peopletalonsontypewriters's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Violence, Xenophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, War, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Gun violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Colonisation, Misogyny, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Ableism, Sexism, Suicide, and Kidnapping
Minor: Vomit, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Homophobia, Animal death, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Infidelity, and Rape
maria2001's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
The only words that I can say is that if the first book was a snack this is the main freaking corse .
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The author picks up the story lines we left in book one and builds them to an incredible crescendo , the stakes are higher than ever, the tension tauter than ever , my sleepin schedule gone forever owo .
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What the author does in this book is expand the world buildin , and we get to see more than just Kekon and meet people from all around ( friends and enemies ✨) . The world building is simple enough to understand but like it's so intricately built and the attention to detail is evident.
(P.s : the depiction of "non kekonese" isn't in the nicest light but I'll refrain from commenting further on it until I read the last book)
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They also dive deeper into the characters than I think book one did . like we have genuinely the most 3D human characters in this book , You love them ,you hate them , you fear for them and you laugh and cry with them .
It was such a joy to be with the Kauls but they also caused me actual stress that if I wasn't reading this on ebook the book would be out of the window :D.
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Now I'm going to gently push this book your way while reminding you that it is violent and intense and does mention triggering subjects so I always advise checking the trigger warning to see what you can and can't put up with 🖤.
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*whisper* pick this series up ya won't regret ;) .
Moderate: Abortion, Death, Gore, and Violence
Minor: Pedophilia and War
nhg's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Pedophilia
Minor: Rape and Kidnapping
whatevertheysay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia
Minor: Homophobia and Pedophilia
calicot's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death and Violence
Minor: Abortion, Pedophilia, and Rape
stonebm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Death, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Abortion, Pregnancy, Murder, Medical content, Drug use, and Drug abuse
Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Rape, and Pedophilia
genny's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The timeline kept throwing me off, though. I'll be assuming that a few weeks had passed since a certain event, but then Lee would hit me with a line like "a year had passed since [specific incident]" and I'm like...wait, what? I think it's because the multiple POVs aren't always in the same timeline; we'd be following Shae in the present day, then we'd switch to Anden who'll narrate his life in Espenia for the past x months before catching up to the present, and the next thing I know, Hilo's children have grown by another year. Lol. This might just be a problem with me not processing the passage of time, but I couldn't help but notice it every time it happened.
Graphic: Cursing, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death, Murder, Racism, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Blood, and Drug use
Moderate: Misogyny and Abortion
Minor: Pedophilia, Death of parent, Ableism, and Excrement
perditorian's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and Xenophobia
Minor: Cancer and Pedophilia