Harrow the Ninth
Book • 2020 • Sci-Fi
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Does a non-human character die?
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Several planets are killed, and their spirits behave like creatures in the River, where they are killed again.
Also, several Heralds are killed, which are insectoid alien creatures.
Also, several Heralds are killed, which are insectoid alien creatures.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Hard to say. Both of the leads are neglected throughout their childhood, and their parents die when they are young.
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Abuse
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References to child abuse near the end of the novel, and a particularly graphic fight between two children.
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A leading commander is revealed to have started to had a releationship with the head of their enemy's forces shortly before the events of the first book, whilst both are aware of each other's identities. Upon finding out about a mission their partner has planned against the other side, one of them chases down and kills the other.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Harrow describes her parents in this book. They are neglectful. In the prior book, they encouraged her to commit suicide with them and tied her noose for her.
Gideon's mother intended to kill her and named her "Bomb"
Gideon's mother intended to kill her and named her "Bomb"
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Main character essentially gaslights herself, and the book gaslights the reader about the events of the previous novel.
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It is implied Harrow may have been neglected and overburdened to an extent that counts as abuse as a child. This would contexualise events of the previous book, Gideon the Ninth, as the abused becoming the abuser.
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Is someone stalked?
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Main character is stalked by a man trying to kill her throughout the novel.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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There is a scene where everyone at a dinner party get quite intoxicated.
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Animal
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Planets with life on them get "killed"
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Are there bugs?
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Yes. The ship is attacked by Heralds, which are bug-like alien creatures.
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Assault
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A girl is stalked and attacked by a man while naked in the bath. Although no sexual assault takes place, the entire fight happens while she is nude and she is clearly traumatized by the event. Can still be triggering.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Closest thing to an explicit mention is one character saying something like "I'm going to beat your ass until it falls off and you no longer have an ass" and the other character saying something like "please, your threats of sexual violence are so boring."
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Is someone drugged?
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A character is made to be unable to move by messing with their nervous system in a way that is analogous to the description for this question.
A character attempts to kill another character via sneaking a substance into food.
A character attempts to kill another character via sneaking a substance into food.
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Is someone restrained?
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a character is forcibly paralyzed and put into a chair
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Our protagonist mutilates a man’s eyes out of self defense.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Death and fight scenes are described in detail. A character uses flesh and meat as part of her powers and details of that are quite vivid.
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Is someone tortured?
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Implied torture in Harrow the Ninth. Referenced torture in the short story that comes with the novel As Yet Unsent.
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Is there body horror?
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There are too many instances of body horror to go into detail but if you don’t like body horror just avoid this whole series. Cause there’s lots of it.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A character loses a finger but it grows back.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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During a fight, a character has her teeth knocked out.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Almost, but they are saved last minute
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Is there a hanging?
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References to previous event. Not contemporaneous with narrative.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Several characters unknowingly consume human bone marrow
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Is someone buried alive?
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Novel ends with a character climbing into a tomb and essentially burying herself, but it's debatable if she is still completely alive.
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Is there amputation?
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A main character deals with her amputated arm throughout the novel.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Beginning of chapter four. Very descriptive
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Does someone break a bone?
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Numerous times. Breaking bones are described vividly. Bones are a core aspect of the series.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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No, but a character fantasises about pushing someone down some in moderate detail.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Non-graphic scene of two characters falling to their deaths. No bodies are ever described and the scene is so vague that the witness doubts it ever happened.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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The main character passes out frequently throughout the book.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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References to previous time when a couple hundred children were killed in a mass murder event. Not contemporaneous with narrative.
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Death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Yes, a character tries to sacrifice body and mind to save another character.
The lyctorial processes' sacrifice is a major theme.
Bodies from the sacrifice of to make Harrow a necromancer are seen as part of an illusion, and this sacrifice is discussed in conversation.
The lyctorial processes' sacrifice is a major theme.
Bodies from the sacrifice of to make Harrow a necromancer are seen as part of an illusion, and this sacrifice is discussed in conversation.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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References to previous time where parents died from suicide by hanging. Not within contemporaneous narrative.
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Does someone cheat?
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Debatable. Questionable polycules and threesomes do take place, but no narrative of cheating seems to take place.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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A character is shown to already be a hostage / kept restrained, but the act of kidnapping is not shown
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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A large aspect of the novels is body-swapping and possession.
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Are there ghosts?
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Main character is haunted by a ghost-like being throughout the novel.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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The first few chapters heavily feature a character vomiting several times.
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Is someone eaten?
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Parts of a person are being fed to a group of people by that person themself. But noone dies of being consumed.
Several people are being described as having literally consumed the soul of another person and at least one of them suffers from it mentally.
Several people are being described as having literally consumed the soul of another person and at least one of them suffers from it mentally.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Quite the opposite, the military is portrayed in a negative way.
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LGBTQ+
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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As previously mentioned by someone else, there's a sort of unethical polycule, but not because the characters are poly and/or bi. More because they do unethical things whilst being poly.
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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a hospital but its not described in detail or specifically a mental hospital
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Does someone have cancer?
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Same as previous novel, a character who suffered from cancer is referred to often.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The novel starts in a hospital-like setting.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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In chapter 6, a cohort officer uses her blood (withdrawn from a syringe) to draw a ward against ghosts on the floor of the ship that Harrow, Ianthe, the Emperor, and Mercymorn are using to travel to the River.
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Mental Health
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References to the main character's parents hanging themselves, and the main character attempting suicide at least once.
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Two characters are portrayed committing suicide together.
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Ianthe graphically slices through her own hand, but only to demonstrate her healing abilities.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Harrow is schizophrenic, but her violence is only ever in self-defense or in fight scenes typical of sci-fi fantasy. She is not violent because of her mental illness.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The entire novel is about Harrow dealing (or refusing to deal with) her PTSD.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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BIG SPOILERS here
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near the end of the book, one character is running around in the body of a much smaller, weaker character. most of their distress comes from trying to keep the body alive and missing the character the body belongs to, but they do make some jokes (to cope) about being uncomfortable in such a noodly armed body.
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near the end of the book, one character is running around in the body of a much smaller, weaker character. most of their distress comes from trying to keep the body alive and missing the character the body belongs to, but they do make some jokes (to cope) about being uncomfortable in such a noodly armed body.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Harrowhark is likely schizophrenic.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Harrow seems to have some kind of sensory issues with most foods and cannot eat them, but she does willingly eat.
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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The fourth wall isn’t broken, but much of the novel uses 2nd-person narration in a way that could be unnerving to some
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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No, but IVF imagery and references to fetuses dying are brought up in two scenarios
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Does someone miscarry?
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Harrow mentions her mother miscarried several times before she was born, but nothing is shown or discussed beyond this.
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Is there childbirth?
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A woman references giving birth alone. The scene is not shown.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Brief mentions of babies and infants, particularly a mention of dead infants. One is briefly shown during the first scene in the River.
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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Possibly. One character’s size is brought up on several occasions.
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(SPOILERS) A man and a woman share a male-assigned body but this is kept secret from the other characters, so when the woman is "piloting" she is still referred to as a "he" by others, but not because of bigotry. They simply do not know.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A character is treated as somewhat disabled because their powers are lesser as compared with their peers. There are many jibes that come their way.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Yes, but like pretty much everyone is queer and like half the characters die so it’s statistically improbable that a queer character won’t die.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Lyctors are stated to have had sexual and romantic relationships with normal humans, which is an age gap of around ten thousands of years. They are also widely seen as being divine figures adding to the potential disparity in power.
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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A scene where several characters kiss and start to disrobe before the POV leaves the room, and some discussion of sex although it's vague or jokey
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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It's never specifically named, but the main character forgets/misremembers large portions of her past.
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Yes. The main twist of the book (big spoiler) is that Harrow lobotomized herself, and used necromancy to essentially give herself a stroke every time she hears the name of another character, preventing her from remembering them.
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Ambiguously sad. It is not the end of the series but many characters do die and various issues are escalated.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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There is content after the epilogue
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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Entire spaceship the novel takes place on begins to collapse near the end.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Mentions of cars honking outside in the epilogue
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Frequent and graphic descriptions of both throughout the entirety of the book
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Does someone drown?
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A scene early on where the main character is surrounded by water and believes she will drown. The novel ends with a character drowning.
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Is there gun violence?
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Multiple characters in the Canaan House scenes are stalked and murdered by a character with a gun. Descriptions of their deaths are graphic.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Reference made to a nuclear explosion that took place long before the book began, in which millions died.
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