The main character relives the trauma of his mother's murder, and there's talk of a young man imprisoned by an older man in the past and forced into a sexual relationship.

Many of the protagonists that the reader gets to know die violently and are thrown in a mass grave. The violence gets fairly gory with bodies torn open, torture, and stabbings. You'll also find some mature sexual content including gay sado-masochistic innuendo among the villains in a few scenes and some intimate touching - a man slides his palms up another man's thighs, a man takes off another man's shirt while he's tied up. (We will use she/her pronouns here.) Her fantasy books for adults focus on bisexual characters, and this one does as well, though many of the bisexual characters in Dark Rise are the villains, while many of the protagonists take a vow of celibacy. Pecat, who identifies as queer and uses both she/her and he/him pronouns. It's the first book for young adults by Australian author C. Parents need to know that Dark Rise is a violent historical fantasy set in 1821 London. Whiskey drinking by adults.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. This thrilling story of friendship, deception, loyalty, and betrayal is sure to find a passionate audience of readers.Talk of dock workers sharing pipes and liquor and collecting cigarette butts to resell as pipe filler. Readers will love exploring the rich setting of nineteenth-century London. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic and Shelby Mahurin’s Serpent & Dove, Dark Rise is more than just high intrigue fantasy-it’s fast-paced, action-packed, and completely surprising.

Will is thrust into a world of magic, where he starts training for a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark.Īs London is threatened and old enmities are awakened, Will must stand with the last heroes of the Light to prevent the fate that destroyed their world from returning to destroy his own. Then an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, who have sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns.

Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. This epic fantasy with high-stakes romance will sit perfectly on shelves next to beloved fantasy novels like the Infernal Devices series, the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the Red Queen series. Pacat, heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war are reborn and begin to draw new battle lines. In this stunning new fantasy novel from international bestselling author C.

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