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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade
Moderate: Death
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Graphic: Alcohol
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Classism
Minor: Vomit
Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Self harm
Graphic: Racism, Colonisation, Classism
Moderate: Genocide, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Death, Violence, Grief
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief
Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Excrement, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexism, Violence
Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Death, Stalking, Alcohol
The character's background is conveyed mostly through his thoughts, and at first I thought it was going to be gradually revealed in bits and pieces. Having made it a quarter of the way through the book before stopping, it doesn't really seem like more is forthcoming (at least not in time for it to feel meaningful).
The Will system is interesting, it's well-described and has some fascinating implications for the world. I appreciate how the exploitative nature of this power is combined with a colonialist empire. It's a synergy between the political and magical in a way that makes sense as to why things are as bad as they are for almost everyone in the system, with the magic and the exploitation feeding into each other in a horrible self-reinforcing loop.
Ultimately the pace was slow enough that it broke any sense of momentum that I had while reading, and I'm just not interested in finishing it.
Graphic: Confinement, Slavery
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Fatphobia, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder