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Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Slavery, Colonisation
Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship
Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism
Moderate: Racial slurs
Minor: Bullying, Racism
Graphic: Emotional abuse
Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment
Minor: Homophobia, Violence
Unnecessarily long explanation: It was on purpose because I had the ARC for Marian Hayes (and Rob's) story and I read it even though I knew it was #2 in the series, but it was accidentally out of order because I didn't really intend to go back and read Kit Webb (and Percy's) story. But, as often happens in these cases, I liked #2 and decided to go back and read #1.
All of that to say that I was very happy to discover that I wasn't really "going back" and reading out of order — the stories take place concurrently, fitting together to give the whole story. I preferred this one overall. As you can imagine, it has a more satisfying, more completed feel to it. I'm also just quite fond of both Marian and Rob, those brilliant dummies, and the way their relationship works (specifically how consent is worked into this historical, where we don't often get it, and how non-penetrative sex is featured in this M/F relationship, where we don't often get it). So, yes, I'd rate this one just a little higher, but really I think the books are both best when taken together, no matter what order you happen to read them in.
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, Colonisation
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma
Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Murder
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Sexual content