The Poppy War

Book • 2018 • Fantasy  

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Does the dog die?
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The main character kills a dog graphically on-screen and mutilates its body.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Very briefly mentioned in the first chapter
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there blackface?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abuse
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The main character who was abused basically has a downward spiral and becomes very unstable by the end of the book. Her actions could be considered war crimes.
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Is someone stalked?
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Is a child abused?
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The protagonist is shown to be abused by her foster parents from the first few pages of the book. Another character is later found out to have been experimented on in a lab when they were a child and even after getting out, people that were supposed that have been taking care of them continue to drug them and train them by any means they deemed necessary to fight and obey their orders
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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The "Poppy" from the books title refers to drugs. So yeah. Also multiple drugs are used throughout the book for shamanism purposes and not only
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Drugs are used to enhance shamans' abilities and to help them reach the gods. Some characters, like Rin's foster parents who you are introduced to at the begining of the book, work as opium smugglers so you are exposed to the whole drugs thing and what it does to you (specifically opium) pretty early on. Later in the book, a character is shown to have an opium addiction that Rin hadn't previously known about
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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When going towards The Stone Prison they use a horse taken from Golyn Niis that goes away to die from exhaustion after the journney is over
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Baji is said to have caught two rabbits to eat at some point
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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The Empress has a snake
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Are there bugs?
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At some point a character says that she either needs to get a mat to sleep on pr sleep with the cockroaches on the ground.
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Assault
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One of the characters describes her stay at a "relaxation house" after being taken prisoner by their enemies during the war. The description is very graphic and detailed and talks about what happened to her and everyone else there.
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Josieinawormhole
Multiple instances of having hands tied or being strapped to a table
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BigBouncyBalls
Not onscreen, but contains an extremely graphic description of gang-rape by enemy soldiers
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Is there pedophilia?
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Off screen descriptions of what the main character fears will happen after her arranged marriage and later there are more graphic descriptions of very young girls forced into "relaxation houses" by an invading force
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Is someone drugged?
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Josieinawormhole
At one point, the main character is given sleep medication in her food. Later, 2 characters are injected with syringes against their will.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Yes, very explicitly and detailed, by a fellow female soldier who shares what happened to her and the other women in the city
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
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bigbrightstars
Not on-screen, but one of the characters describes seeing genital mutilation during her time at a brothel.
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During their time at Khurdalain, in a battle, a character is described as they squash enemies' heads and rip them off their necks
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Well, some of the characters' powers are specifically centered around fire and the ability to summon fire and use it to attack others so yeah, people do get burned alive in battle this way, but, also, there is a time towards the end of the book when what is basically a massacre is found to have happend and they realise that some of the people were burned alive. The scene is very horrific and a lot of grotesque things that have happened to those people are described. It really is very disturbing
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there body horror?
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During the torture scene the tprtured character is repeatedly punched in the same eye, drawing blood, and i think also poked in the eyes at some point
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Is there excessive gore?
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Multiple characters are killed by being slashed in the throat.
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There's a lot of fighting going on and sometimes people get choked or their windpipe is hot or stuff like that which does make them struggle to breathe. They also do make a lot of physical effort (even for things like sparring for example) which does know them out of breath sometimes
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Is someone tortured?
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In Act III, Altan is tortured by Shiro.
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Josieinawormhole
The main character comes across multiple decapitated bodies and heads (shown after the fact)
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Is there amputation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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ch. 15 after an explosion a man is hanging on to what remains of a 5 story building and ends up falling to his death.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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As her brother returns, Qara, being anchor twins senses his return and feels that he is badly injured. When they find her, she is having a seizure because of it
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Is there a hanging?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a kid die?
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Soon after they arrive at Sinegard (city not school) they see a child hit by a cart, survive, only to get hit again so that they die.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does someone die?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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The protagonist is a war orphan
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Does someone cheat?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The enemy soldier that is taken by them during the enemy's gas attack.
Two main characters are tricked by someone and then kidnapped by the enemy and taken to a lab as a result
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Fear
Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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You could probanly describe the states shamans enter when they are more fully controlled by their gods as possessions. Also, at some point jiang makes a brief reference to having seen some possesions before
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Well, if you consider The Woman's apparitions whenever Rin tries to call the fire as a ghost, or the memories of the Speerlies dancing near the fire as such
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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone vomit?
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cornixregina
Near the beginning before the test and a couple of other times throughout the story.
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Is there audio gore?
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Does someone spit?
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Josieinawormhole
Characters often spit on others to show disdain
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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During the lab part towards the end of the book when they are drugged by the doctor
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Characters end up in the med area multiple times because of injuries. Also, toward the end of the book, two characters are caught and taken to a lab for experimentation purposes, one of said characters having been there before and their first stay there having been described a bit earlier in the book. The lab is reminiscent of a hospital
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The protagonist self harms by burning herself with wax. At first as a way to keep herself awake, and later in the story because she finds comfort and familiarity in it.
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After the main character gets banned from combat lessons
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Well no, but there are times in the book at the beginning that could still be potentially triggering or bothersome when rin refuses to eat for prolonged periods of time
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Are there abortions?
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BigBouncyBalls
Protagonist willingly takes medicine to damage her uterus, and an unnamed pregnant woman is murdered and has the fetus ripped out of her
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Is there childbirth?
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As a character describes the awful things that happened in the "relaxation house" where she was placed, she also talks about how they killed a pregnant woman by doing some pretty awful stuff that i won't describe but that boils down to: they emptied her belly while she was alive (she died during) and then killed the baby
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Prejudice
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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Is there hate speech?
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Relationships
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Sex
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Some sexual assaults that have happened to one of the characters are graphically described
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Is there bestiality?
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Well, the enemy is defeated but the sacrifices it took for it to be that way make it a very sad ending (the very last scene is literally happening during a funeral), especially as even though the enemy is defeated, there is still a lot of work to be done
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Vehicular
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Not by a car, but a carriage
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
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Josieinawormhole
No but near the end there’s a large explosion and the aftermath is described as looking like a nuclear mushroom cloud
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Does someone drown?
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Multiple enemy soldiers die during the marsh attack
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Is there blood/gore?
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At first, the book seems tame enough. You know that it's about war but it's nothing spectacular. Then, after the war starts and the fighting begins, it gets a bit graphic. As the war goes on the book gets slightly more disturbing and more of the easy-going-ness is lost. Towards the end, (in like the last 1/5 of the book) it gets very grotesque and gorey as they stumble upon a place where people have been killed in horrific ways, tortured and mutilated (adults, children, babies). The descriptions are very graphic and troubling and any "this is still kind of a fun book with pretty cool characters and i like thier interactions" is exchanged for "this is an actual portrayal of war with all the horrific stuff that comes with it". This book is, in fact, known for the disturbing things it portrays and even it might not seem so at first, it does live up to the things said about it
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There's no guns, fights happen using swords and bows and daggers and tridents and other such things
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