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Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Xenophobia, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Genocide, Sexual assault, Torture, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Physical abuse
Graphic: War
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Rape, Blood
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, War
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
I'm quite stunned at the places this book dares to go, and because of that I'm a little mixed on many parts of The Poppy War. I can't say the first half of this book led me to expect how unimaginably dark the second half is. What Kuang pulls off here with Rin is both excellent and disturbing, because despite everything, I still somewhat rooted for her. I don't know if I can stomach the rest of the series after the horrifying atrocities portayed in the second half of The Poppy War. If you really understand what you're getting into, I recommend this book quite a lot.
Complaints: many of the side characters introduced in the second part did not feel fleshed out enough, and much more subjectively, I felt that Kuang was too descriptive about some of the fictional atrocities committed here, which I cannot really stomach and did not know was coming, so I nearly dropped the book.
Audiobook-wise: a generally good, sometimes excellent performance from Emily Woo Zeller here. Rarely did I feel like she failed to capture the wild emotions of this book, and sometimes she really strikes gold.
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Violence, Blood, War
Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Grief
Minor: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Abandonment
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Rape, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation
Minor: Animal cruelty