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A review by thedarkfields
The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Grief, Gaslighting, and War
Minor: Animal death, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent
Colonisation, war, and slavery are main themes in this series. This book also includes a great deal of manipulation, emotional/physical abuse, some gaslighting, and off-page references to terrible things (this includes brief references to killing a dog, repeated mentions of a murder made to look like a suicide, and a decent word count spent discussing a war tactic leading to starvation and genocide) . It's dark.
There's one scene (fairly early on in the book) during which someone is briefly but brutally tortured in explicit detail. Can be skipped without missing plot. There are other brief references to torture but none I can recall that are explicit.
There's one scene (fairly early on in the book) during which someone is briefly but brutally tortured in explicit detail. Can be skipped without missing plot. There are other brief references to torture but none I can recall that are explicit.