Strong language is pretty infrequent, with only one use of "f-king." Readers will learn the backstories of these characters as the novel progresses, each bringing up themes of survival and overcoming loss.
No details are given about life in the brothels, but there's some kissing and nakedness in other scenes. Backstories of the main characters can be jarring, such as a recalled childhood scene of a character being buried in corpses on a barge, imprisonment and near-starvation, and characters being beaten and forced to work in brothels. More bloodshed includes arena fighting in prison where a man is mauled to death and wolves are killed, a gang shooting where a boy is left for dead, a knife wound that nearly kills a main character, and more. Characters are complex, flawed, and sometimes responsible for despicable acts, such as plucking out a man's eye in one gruesome scene. As in the fantasy series, the content is consistently mature and a better fit for mature teen readers. Parents need to know that Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows is related to her Grisha trilogy, but you can read this first book of the related series without reading the trilogy first. Champagne flows at a party.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. They're all teens with hard lives from the underbelly of society, so there are plenty of mentions of bars and drinking until drunkenness, especially during gambling. Some addicted characters waste away because of it. The team is trying to stop a highly addictive and lethal drug from being produced. Kidnapping characters being beaten and forced to work in brothels, being imprisoned and crowded on a ship near starvation, and watching a brother die of fever and then covered by corpses on a barge when left for dead.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Backstories of characters also are jarring.
Others are forced to take highly addictive drugs in experiments that often kill them. Other bodies are seen on spikes, decomposing. A teen is shot in a gang fight a main character is badly injured with a knife and then knifes her attacker in the groin a man is found still alive, smoldering and moaning after he's burned at the stake. Arena fighting in a prison includes a scene of a giant lizard mauling a man and a bloody man-against-wolves fight where the wolves are killed. Some jarring in-the-moment violence, the worst being when Kaz cuts a man's face and plucks out his eye while he screams.
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