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Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder
Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, War, Classism
Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse
But i decided to give it a shot, and it actually has a consistent and good plot! Althought the beggining and the worldbuilding are kinda confusing, the rest is pretty nice!
Loved the characters, specially Poppy, Vikter and Tawny
WHERE IS THE SECOND ONEEE GIMME
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence
On Poppy: her character started out strong and then became whiney and moronic at the twist, which was really disappointing. She's written to be a badass, independent woman, and at times she is. Other times, she cannot think for herself, relies heavily on others (especially the hot guy she met like 2 weeks ago) and is excessively horny, not always at appropriate times too (and for like, no good reason). I like Poppy, but at the same time, I also don't. She's very slow on figuring things out, to the point I got second-hand embarrassment for her. Poppy is compelling, but also stupid. It is a very weird combination at times.
On Hawke: yeah whatever. He's a hot guy with a tragic backstory. Nothing too interesting or unique so far. He's funny though, so he is at least interesting to read. He also gets horny at bad times, like when Poppy is in pain, or sad, angry, or upset. Very gross tbh.
The action scenes were amazing but the book lacks setting descriptions so you kind of have no idea where they are a lot of the time. Also, the first 150 pages were the most confusing beginning of any book I've read. The reader gets dumped with info but not the information that actually makes sense for what is happening at that moment in the book so it is very, very confusing.
It's just the first book though so things usually improve. Don't know how there is going to be anything other than a second book because the plot already seems stretched thin for no reason other than wasting time.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Violence, Blood
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Death of parent
That does not mean that I have lost interest or I am not intrigued because I am, but I feel that for the time being, for me, it has ended nicely that I can leave it for a while and then go back (this is coming from someone who hates to read unfinished series due to not having patience to wait for the next books to come out so this is a purely bias opinion)
It does start of slightly slow but I believe this is due to all the information that the reader needed to understand the back story etc,but it does pick up!
this series has a badass curvy woman as the protagonist that is snarky and doesn't like being told what to do. Of course here is also a beautiful male counter part that I believe most woman (and men) would throw themselves at. There are also plenty of side characters that you can't help but love.
It is a story that deals with a lot of different themes and I love nothing better that power hungry abusing individuals get what the deserve.
It should possibly come with a few content warnings such as abuse, torture (in my opinion), violence etc but I do not believe that any of them are graphic enough that it should cause distress but if you have experienced any you may want to be careful!
As I said at the begining, the pacing of this book certainly picked up and if has left me wondering how we are going to get 6/7 books out of this series but I am excited to find out and I am in it for the journey.
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, War
Minor: Death of parent
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence
Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence
Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence
Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent