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sunjaybooks 's review for:
The Spear Cuts Through Water
by Simon Jimenez
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
slow-paced
This book has it all! Gender, family trauma, psychic tortoises, ableism, gay sex, moral ambiguity, genocide, the broad scope of history, magic and myth. It's beautifully written and also deeply deeply violent and yet still humanistic in its portrayal of the aggressors, victims, and all the morally ambiguous people in between.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, Classism