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Graphic: Death, Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use
Minor: Dementia
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Classism
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Racism
The characters are really interesting and actually carry a lot of the story, since their flaws and decisions let the events progress and escalate further, which makes them feel alive and well merged with the world Fonda Lee built. Nevertheless, a lot of the actions that the characters took did not make a lot of sense in specific situations or were needlessly cruel, even given the topics the book deals with. Especially the grandfather gave the impression that he just appeared to talk the others down. Additionally, I really disagreed with some scenes and the behavior in them, which made it hard for me to continue the book sometimes.
Some scenes felt a bit too long or they were repeated in almost the same way too often, which made them repetitive to read and it seemed to just add to the page count of the book, without providing a real impact on anything.
All in all the idea of Jade City was really interesting to me, but I think the actual translation into the story was lacking in my opinion.
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Overall, however, this three-book series is some of the most innovative and dramatic fantasy of the last ten or fifteen years. The decades-long blood feud between the Kauls of the No Peak clan and the Eits of the Mountain clan ebbs and flows. It’s a drama of move and counter-move, and each time you think one clan is winning, the other clan makes a surprise move.
Graphic: Death, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Death, Misogyny
Minor: Dementia, Grief
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Murder
Moderate: Death, Murder