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Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Sexual harassment, War
Minor: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War
This story is about reaching for power, pulling it in, holding tightly to it, despite the warnings from everyone around you of the cost of such power. I respected Rin's decisions to pursue power, understood why she clung so desperately to the idea. But as the story progressed, the more warnings that she was given, the more she pursued the power. She chose the path of destruction again and again, even after witnessing the devastating effects that war brings. Revenge was a drug, she was addicted and wouldn't relinquish its control over her.
I found myself hating her. How could she chose this road after the things she had seen? Bodies piled in the streets, desecrated in horrific ways. Hearing the story of Venka and her repeated violation, witnessing the mutilation of women for the sexual gratification of Federation soldiers. Rin chose to take these horrors and inflict them upon others, vengeance for vengeance sake. She only briefly realizes the gravity of what she's done, to then brush it aside and continue on her mission to kill more people.
I can agree with others that this book is beautifully written, gut-wrenching, and harsh. I can understand that most of the depictions of war violence are taken from real-world accounts of war. But I can't continue reading a series with such graphic depictions of rape, mutilation, and torture.
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, War
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Classism
Minor: Rape
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Self harm, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gore
Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Torture
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Amazing. Rin is definitely a true dark and twisted heroine. Every chance for redemption she ignores making for a gripping read.
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War
Moderate: Alcoholism
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, Classism
Graphic: Genocide, Rape, War
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use