Does the dog die?
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The Poppy War
Book • 2018 • Fantasy
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The main character kills a dog graphically on-screen and mutilates its body.
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Is there domestic violence?
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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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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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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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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 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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Baji is said to have caught two rabbits to eat at some point
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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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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 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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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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Not onscreen, but contains an extremely graphic description of gang-rape by enemy soldiers
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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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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Is someone burned alive?
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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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Does a head get squashed?
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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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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Not on-screen, but one of the characters describes seeing genital mutilation during her time at a brothel.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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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 someone tortured?
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In Act III, Altan is tortured by Shiro.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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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 eye mutilation?
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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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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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Does a parent die?
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The protagonist is a war orphan
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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
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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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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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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Does someone vomit?
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Near the beginning before the test and a couple of other times throughout the story.
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Are needles/syringes 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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Is there a hospital scene?
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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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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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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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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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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there abortions?
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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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Does a pregnant person die?
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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 incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Some sexual assaults that have happened to one of the characters are graphically described
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Does it have a sad ending?
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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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Is someone hit by a car?
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Not by a car, but a carriage
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Violence
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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Is there gun violence?
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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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