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Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Classism
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Police brutality, Grief, Alcohol
Minor: Drug abuse, Racism, Kidnapping
I enjoyed how more and more bits and pieces of the characters stories are revealed as time passes on, and how some decisions make more sense in hindsight with the new knowledge I gained. This book also did a really good job at making morally grey characters lovable, and even evil ones likeable. As it says at one point, no amount of loving anyone will make them a better/good person.
All in all I really liked this, even though it is not the genre I usually go for :)
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Child death, Death, Murder
Minor: Blood
Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Death of parent, Classism
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Trafficking
Minor: Mental illness, Torture, Police brutality
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism
"Poster Girl" follows a young woman named Sonya. Sonya long believed in the Delegation's moto: " WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT". She followed it without question or second thought. But when the Delegation fell, and she is locked up with other important members of the Delegation in the Aperture, she begins to rethink everything. She is given the opportunity to earn her freedom and get out from under their watchful eye. Sonya is tasked with finding a missing girl, a second born to a family who should not have had a second child under the rules of the Delegation. Through her investigation, Sonya uncovers decades old secrets that could destroy her community's reality.
I really liked the idea of this book and the exploration of how surveillance is slowly encroaching on every part of our lives. It is easy to feel like wherever you are, technology will find you, and that might not be such a great thing. I also greatly appreciated that this book does not get too techy in explanation. I have a very visceral understanding of technology, so too much detail about the cloud would have really taken be out of the story.
Sonya as a character felt kind of flat to me. I wanted to see her complete her task, but I was never rooting for her. She is flawed and we learn something about her that is heartbreaking, but I never felt super connected to her as a person.
I think Veronica Roth does dystopian well, but this particular story just did not grab me like her others. Perhaps this was too futuristic with technology for me personally? Overall, I felt like this story was fine. I am happy I read it, but I likely will not think much about it.
I will probably pick up Veronica Roth in the future, just maybe not anything set in this world
Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Child death, Sexual content