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Violence
Very heavy
Extreme graphic horror violence; Anthropophagi attacks are depicted with visceral, disturbing detail — among the most graphic violence in YA fiction
Language
Some
Adult language in the Victorian horror register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological horror of the novel's final revelation — about what the worst monsters truly are — and the weight placed on a twelve-year-old witness creates sustained and genuine dread
What this book is about
Rick Yancey's YA horror novel follows Will Henry, a twelve-year-old orphan who assists Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, a scientist who studies and hunts aberrant species. When a shipment of Anthropophagi — headless monsters with mouths in their chests — appears in a Massachusetts cemetery, the investigation leads somewhere darker than Will imagined. Yancey writes Victorian horror with genuine craft and is not shy about graphic content; the monster violence is extremely detailed and disturbing. One of the most genuinely frightening YA novels published.
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Extreme graphic horror violence throughout
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