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Violence
Very heavy
Heavy and specific: graphic gun violence, torture, police brutality, gore, fire injuries, and graphic medical trauma
Language
Very heavy
Constant cursing
Sexual Content
None
Essentially none
Substance Use
Barely any
Alcohol appears; rationing and scarcity are more central than intoxication
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Poverty, confinement, rationing, and the slow discovery that children were experimented on for corporate profit
What this book is about
Mal streams a corporate wargame to scrape together water credits in 2134 New Liberty City, then starts digging into where the game's two unkillable characters actually came from. Reviewers who catalogued the content list graphic gun violence, graphic torture, graphic police brutality, graphic medical trauma, fire injuries, child death, and child abuse in backstory. Notably, several reviewers point out what the book does not contain: no sexual content and no threat of sexual assault, with an asexual/aromantic protagonist. Reviewers say the combination of heavy violence and constant profanity means adults and mature teens rather than younger readers.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Graphic torture and police brutality
Child abuse in backstory and child death
Pervasive profanity
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