Does the dog die?
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Yes, the dog dies brutally. Stomped to death by a character infected with the Violence. It is mentioned and discussed throughout the book.
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Are animals abused?
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Several animals (cats and dogs) are killed by their owners throughout the book.
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Does someone vomit?
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Multiple characters vomit from disgust in several chapters.
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There are several descriptions of the ways the main character was neglected and berated by her mother when she was young. The mom herself talks about being beaten with a belt when she was young by her own mother.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Two cats are left to die after their owner passes away.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Multiple people are killed in very brutal ways. Most commonly, their heads are bashed in with some heavy object.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Multiple grown men make sexual comments at minor characters in the book.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is someone tortured?
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The main character is repeatedly abused by her husband, but it is never described as torture.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does a kid die?
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One of the members of the VFR tells a story about a babysitter killing her children. It is not described in detail, but the trauma is mentioned a few times throughout the book.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The characters end up comfortably living together, free from the abuse of their previous spouses.
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Does a head get squashed?
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AddyMcGarr
Multiple animals are stomped to death. A woman's head is beaten "to a pulp" with a Yeti mug.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Not a movie.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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AddyMcGarr
One character shaves his head. It is only mentioned briefly and not in detail.
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Is there cannibalism?
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The little girl character catches The Violence and bites her grandmother. She does not eat the flesh, but the bite wound is mentioned numerous times.
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Is there copaganda?
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All of the cops in the book are explicitly treated like the enemy.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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The Violence is a disease that causes people to black out and kill others brutally. The Violence is not technically a mental illness, but could stand in for one.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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The abusive ex-boyfriend of the main character's daughter, Ella, emails her to threaten to kill himself. She brushes it off as a manipulation tactic.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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The main character is choked to near-unconsciousness multiple times by her husband.
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Does a parent die?
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At the end of the book, the main character kills the father of her children after he threatens them with a gun.
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Does a major character die?
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The main character's husband is killed in the last chapters of the book.
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The main character is slapped by her husband.
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Does a family member die?
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The main character's husband, David, is murdered at the end of the book.
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Does someone cheat?
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The main character's mother, Patricia, marries a man named Randall who has multiple affairs with his secretaries.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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The main character's husband, David, drinks heavily and becomes violent after.
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Does someone die?
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Multiple people die brutally in this book.
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Does someone spit?
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One character is mentioned drooling on a pillow.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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While driving down the highway, Ella is honked at and harassed by another driver. It interaction ends after a few minutes.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The main character's mother is described as "kidnapping" her granddaughters. The girls are left there by their mom to keep them safe. They are not taken forcefully.
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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The main character runs away from her abusive husband without telling him where she is going.
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Are there ghosts?
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Cat ghost are mentioned once by a character imagining them, but they do not actually appear.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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AddyMcGarr
Characters with the Violence black out when they are overcome with the disease and do not remember anything that happened while they were unconscious.
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Is someone homeless?
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Briefly, after being barred from her grandmother's neighborhood, Ella is homeless and lives our of her car and abandoned houses until she is reunited with her mother.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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AddyMcGarr
The Violence vaccine is administered like the smallpox vaccine. The shots are mentioned several times.
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Is someone choked?
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The main character's husband puts her in a slow chokehold numerous times. It is described in detail.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The main character is choked by her husband numerous times. There is also a scene where the main character is crushed under a dogpile while restraining a person with the Violence. She is ultimately fine, but it is a claustrophobic scene until she calms down.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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When a person at the VFR comes down with the Violence, several characters dogpile her to subdue her. The main character is at the bottom of the pile and describes how heavy the weight is on top of her.
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Characters black out with no memory of what happened to them when struck with the Violence.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The main character, Chelsea, flinches when people touch her or loom over her because of her past experiences with abuse. She describes being sensitive to being choked, even by jewelry.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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The main character is hit so hard that her teeth come loose in her skull. They do eventually go back to normal and are not mentioned again.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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No rabbits in this book.
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Is someone drugged?
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AddyMcGarr
The people at the incarceration center for the Violence are tranquilized when they begin to storm (have an attack of the Violence). This is described in an email but not explicitly seen.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Once, when the main character is being choked by her husband, he puts a hand over her mouth so she can't breathe.
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Is there addiction?
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David, the main character's husband, exhibits alcoholic tendencies but is never explicitly identified as an alcoholic. The head of the VFR, Harlan, mentions once, in passing, that he met another character when he was in rehab.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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By the end of the book, the main character begins to forgive her abusive mother.
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There is one major NB character who Ella, even before she meets them, comments that she cannot tell their gender or "if they conform to one". Everyone is respectful of this character's pronouns.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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The main character's husband tells her repeatedly that his abuse is her fault.
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Are there abusive parents?
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The main character's mother is described as a narcissist. She is repeatedly cruel to both the main character and her granddaughters and there are several flashback scenes where the main character describes her life growing up.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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One of the main plots of the book is the main character's participation in the Violence Fighting Ring (VFR), which is like WWE for people with the disease. Both men and women fight in the ring, but no one is ever actually hurt.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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There is a brief scene where the main character's mother remembers being hit with a belt buckle by her own mother when she was a child.
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At the end of the book, the main character kills her abusive husband.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The main character leaves her daughters with her mother to protect them from the Violence. They cannot get in touch with her for an extended time.
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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When taking care of her granddaughter, Brooklyn, Patricia initially ridicules her for being too old to cry.
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Is there a dead animal?
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AddyMcGarr
Multiple animals die throughout the book, including a pet dog and multiple pet cats. It is upsetting to read.
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Does a dragon die?
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No dragons in this book.
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Multiple animals are killed throughout the book including the main character's dog, two cats who are abandoned by their owner, and more cats who are killed by people with The Violence.
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Is there menstruation?
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There is a flashback where a female character reflects on her first period.
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Does a cat die?
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Many cats are killed. Two die because they are abandoned and several more are brutally killed by their owner.
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Does a horse die?
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No horses in this book.
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Is there incarceration?
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People with the Violence are taken away to a labor camp until they are vaccinated.
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The driving point of the book is the abusive relationship between the main character and her husband. Most of the women in the book are in some type of abusive relationship.
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Animal
Does a pet die?
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Pet dogs and cats are killed by their owners who have The Violence, and two cats are left to die after their owner dies. Their bodies are described in detail.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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The car the main character is in crashes when she kills her friend, who was driving. The car crash does not hurt anyone.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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AddyMcGarr
The people who are killed by others that have the Violence die brutally. Their deaths are described in a range of detail.
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Is there gun violence?
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In the climax, the main character's husband threatens them with a gun inside a tour bus. The gun never fires.
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