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Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Animal death, Alcohol
Moderate: Mental illness, Violence
Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship
Minor: Drug use, Vomit, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol
That Way Madness Lies
Lindsay Smith, Cory McCarthy, Mark Oshiro, Kiersten White, Lily Anderson, Samantha Mabry, Dahlia Adler, Emily Wibberley, A.R. Capetta, Anna-Marie McLemore, K. Ancrum, Ibi Zoboi, Melissa Bashardoust, Brittany Cavallaro, Tochi Onyebuchi, Austin Siegemund-Broka, Joy McCullough, Patrice Caldwell
Minor: Sexual content, Toxic relationship
Holy crap, that was a quick DNF. The (cis, white, male) protagonist's main complaint about maybe being the last human is how it made him involuntarily celibate. Written in the 1950's, this has not aged well. Also, his reaction to vampire babes moaning sexily outside his window is to be upset about how much he wants to but can't/shouldn't fuck them. I like sexy vampires. I like unsexy vampires. I do not care for man complaining that sexy vampires are a trap. I stopped after the weird thought exercise about whether vampires are worse than the mothers of politicians and arms manufacturers, distillers, and pornographers.
The one thing I will grant it is that the audiobook narrator did a great job, their narration reinforced the trapped feeling of his perspective, how much he focuses his thoughts on emotionally safe pathways (for him), and tries to avoid his distress. Unfortunately those pathways are sexist as fuck.
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: War
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Stalking
Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, Torture, Blood
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Mental illness, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Violence, War
Moderate: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Death of parent