SuitabookEmbrace
Jessica Shirvington
- Reading
- Consider checking in before and after sections involving grief, sexual situations or violent deaths. Discuss how the supernatural conflict is portrayed, then allow space for Violet’s anger and relationship choices without requiring agreement.
- Themes
- Identity and responsibility: Violet must decide whether to pursue a normal human life or become a Grigori, while confronting newly recognised powers and obligations. The conflict presents growing power and responsibility as central pressures on Violet’s development, but the lasting value of her decision is not established here.
- Romance, secrecy and agency: Violet’s relationship with Lincoln is shaped by a concealed angel partnership, while Phoenix pursues her and a love triangle develops. Romantic attraction drives major events, but the portrayal includes secrecy, anger, desire and conflicting judgements about Violet’s reactions and partners.
- Conflict and protection: Grigori protect humanity from exiled angels, and the conflict involves physical battles, murder and choices affecting angelic existence. Protection is presented as a serious responsibility, while the violent struggle and the status of exiled angels create moral danger rather than a simple conflict.
- Worth knowing
- Some families may want to note grief connected with Violet’s mother’s death, sexual content and scantily clad clubbing, intense romantic entanglements, and fairly grisly murders involving angels.