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Violence
Some
Political violence; combat sequences; characters die
Language
Barely any
Mild language appropriate to the fantasy setting
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The psychological weight of living under false identities and divided loyalties; moral complexity throughout
What this book is about
The second book in James Islington's Hierarchy series continues the story of Vis, a young man from a conquered people navigating the political machinery of the Catenan Republic. The deeper he goes into the Republic's institutions and the secrets of the Hierarchy itself, the more the cost of knowledge compounds. Islington brings the same meticulous plotting and moral complexity that defined his Licanius Trilogy to this more politically grounded secondary world fantasy.
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Political violence and moral complexity throughout
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