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I think I’m having trouble because of the size of the cast. It starts out with four main characters (with one more important one who isn’t a POV character) and then adds another one. They’re all in the same city and there’s a degree of redundancy as one character learns something and then one or two others figure it out separately. Whatever the reason, I’m not enjoying it and I’m stopping.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Self harm, Police brutality, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder
Graphic: Death, Murder
Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality
Minor: Child abuse, Fatphobia
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent
Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail
I love heist books and was hoping to love this too. But I find myself realizing that part of what I love about heist stories is someone enthusiastically using their wits to accomplish something difficult and dangerous. Razia is stealing on behalf of someone whom she eventually realizes is exploiting her, and she doesn’t want to do it. She recognizes that now that she has a patron there’s no reason to steal, and it’s actually a terrible idea. She doesn’t want to do it, and I don’t want to read it. Also, it’s hard to feel good about the romance plot when she’s a child being sexually exploited as a courtesan, and the romance is with an adult (at least as far as I can tell) who starts out as a client.
Graphic: Transphobia
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol
Minor: Ableism, Death
Minor: War
Minor: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Death of parent
Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence
Minor: Ableism, Xenophobia, Vomit
Graphic: Medical content, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy
Minor: Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, War