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Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War
Moderate: Child abuse, Gore
The blueberry thing was so cute idk why
Graphic: Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Violence
Minor: Police brutality
The repeat of three was annoying (drowning isn't so bad, burning isn't so bad, ... forgot the other examples. I just remember my eyes almost rolling out of my eyes... they did that alot while reading this book). The nativity of Paedyn and the blind 'yes, sir'-ing of the princes (without any critical thinking) was just stupid.
And then there were all the obvious tropes shoved in ('who did this to you' literally word for word, not even paraphrased or dressed up a bit more originally). The author also blatantly stole so many ideas (there is a difference between stealing and being inspired. She didn't even attempt to hide it.): Harry Potter (maze), of blood and ash (scar on face), Hunger Games (damn near the whole book!), divergent, throne of glass, red queen, trail of the sun queen (didn't even fully read this one and still saw the similarities), fourth wing (cruel, vicious little thing, the silver hair)... and the list goes on and on. => At this point I changed the star rating from a 2.25 to a 1.0 This book just makes me angry by how bad it is and how much time I wasted on it. I really tried to like it. The one star is for how mildly entertaining it was.
oh and almost everything that happened to Paedyn in the trail happened to Kai and vise versa (climing trees to find water, similar injuries/fights, the snakes; it laked variation in ideas)
Normally, I can easily switch my brain off and ignore similar story lines/books or dialogues that are a bit mid. This book made that possible by being so unoriginal that it was annoying. (For example twilight; it's not stellar writing, but god did I enjoy those books)
Do yourself a favour and do not read this book. You'll get more enjoyment by (re-)reading one of the book that this author stole from.
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Child abuse, Gore, Death of parent
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent
Felt forced to finish my way through, if it wasn't read via audiobook, I could not have continued.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Classism
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcohol
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Torture
I can see the similarities between this book and hunger games/red queen, but it didn't bother me so much.
overall I expected more from all the hype, but it was good.
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Classism
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Physical abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Classism
Minor: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Vomit, Grief