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The description of women and sex scenes are a quite male gaze-y though (as is usually the case in Follett's work) and the ending comes a little abrupt and too neatly, as if he really wanted to finish after 1000 pages.
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Antisemitism, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Classism
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence
Moderate: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism
Minor: Racism, Cultural appropriation
Look, it’s a treatise on cathedral architecture with some characters thrown in. Think moby dick for cathedrals in medieval England and you’ve nailed it. Except moby dick wasn’t so heavy on the anti women front, which says something because it’s 100 years older than this book. I liked the setting, Jack, Aliena, Elizabeth, and sally. Martha got forgotten which is sad. Tom was oblivious but nice enough. I desperately hate William and alfred for *reasons* and the pacing is not there. It’s so slow in the first half then gets better at the end then slows down but speeds up simultaneously in the last hundred, which is not great. I did like the historical context in which it occurred (white ship, Henry ii) but thought there was just a bit too much close connection with real historical figures. Course that could be because by halfway through I was just angry at the book in general
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Animal death, Grief, Stalking, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, Sexual harassment
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Murder
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War
Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
Minor: Ableism, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Excrement, Islamophobia, Cultural appropriation
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder