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Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Racial slurs, Sexism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Colonisation
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gore, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use
Graphic: Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
The trigger warnings are also a must - this book has immensely graphic details of rape, violence, and torture in it. This normally wouldn’t deter me from reading a book, but I found it to be too much for me.
Overall, the world building, fantasy, and lore I enjoyed.
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War
Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Excrement, Abandonment
Minor: Slavery, Cannibalism
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Rape
Buku ini didedikasikan untuk Iris, survivor kejadian nyata 'the rape of Nankin', yang adegannya pun dimasukkan ke buku ini. Menurutku pribadi, ini buku yang berani, bikin mual dan butuh untuk dibaca karena memang banyak adegan dibuku ini berdasarkan kejadian yang terjadi selama peperangan Shino antara China dan Jepang.
Jangan lupa cek trigger warning ya.
Baca ulang kali ini aku bisa lebih fokus metain tempat2 dan strateginya. Filosofi2 yang diangkat juga lebih 'kena' untuk jadi bahan pikiran.
Dulu nyelesain bahasa Inggrisnya 3 hari doang, taun 2021, dan janji gabakal baca ulang, but look at me now wkwkwkwkwk
Ceritanya tetep seru banget. Terjemahannya enak. Banyak nemuin kosakata baru terutama bahasa Indonesia untuk beberapa term warna, (yes, I'm looking at you Merah lembayung, and merah kirmizi)
Reading it with your mother tongue hits different. The pain is worse.
Did I know how the story end beforehand? Sure.
Am I sad and mad and sad again? Absolutely.
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying
I enjoyed the “magic” system and how religious elements were used. It was super interesting and really focused on the cost of accessing these super-human powers, which a lot of fantasy glosses over.
I know some don’t like Rin, but I like her character a lot. I think her indecision and building anger and frustration is written well, and by the end of the story, I understand why she chooses to do what she does.
I don’t think this series is going to get any lighter but I look forward to finishing it.
The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is that sometimes the pacing felt a little off. Hitting slow patches after jampacked chapters filled with action and angst was a little jarring.
I also just read Babel which I think shows RF Kuang’s growth as a writer from Poppy War. Her writing and even worldbuilding in Babel is stronger and I’m hoping I get to see that growth over the course of this trilogy.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, War