With their help and the help of a girl named Violet meant to guard him he made his escape while the ship sank. Then strangely dressed soldiers with swords instead of guns came for him: the Stewards. He would never get to safety after he was chained up in the hull of a ship. Will thought it was all for nothing, though.
The message was that he would find refuge with a group called the Stewards in the moors.
But men did notice him, and his mother's old servant barely got him a message before he was caught. In DARK RISE, Will was on the run with his mother his whole life, not knowing why, not even after she was killed and he was working on the docks in London trying not to get noticed. She's half-Indian, half-British and rejects the gender expectations of the era by learning how to fight. Most characters here are not worth rooting for except for maybe Violet. There's some whiskey drinking by adults, and dock workers share pipes and liquor. 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. Talk of dock workers sharing pipes and liquor and collecting cigarette butts to resell as pipe filler.
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