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Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Grief
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Cannibalism, Abortion
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder
Moderate: Vomit, Abortion
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion
Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief
Moderate: Cursing
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death
I found the relationships in this book so much better developed and interesting and the action sequences were really fun to read. Plus the ultimate villains are TERRIFYING.
But I will say I kept feeling like I was missing stuff occasionally. Like stuff that should have been in page was off page or something? But I also read it in three big chunks so could be user error.
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Self harm, Blood, Abortion
This book is unpredictable and raw. Many things chocked me and was hard to accept.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder
I love Rin and Kitay’s friendship. I loved seeing Venka and Rin become allies and then friends. Rin and Nezha’s dynamic was also very interesting to me. I know this series is a military fantasy inspired by real Chinese fantasy and it isn’t at all focused on romance, but can I just say that there’s SOMETHING going on between those two? Is that just me? While I like the way his character was written, I don’t love Nezha the way I do Rin and Kitay. I’m in a love-hate relationship with him at the moment. I’m excited yet concerned to see what unfolds in the final novel, given that every single review of it I’ve seen just talks about how heart-wrenching it is. I’ll get there eventually.
Representation
- protagonist of color
- some side characters of color
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma
Minor: Ableism, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Abortion
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion
Characters: 10
Plot: 9
Setting: 10
General appeal: 10
Writing style: 9
Originality: 10
Ending: 8
Spoiler free, The Poppy War trilogy review: https://youtu.be/H0xdme4atzo
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content
Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, Blood