The Poppy War

... [The climax] of the novel asks some interesting questions in the vein of whether or not the old ???eye for an eye??? adage is indeed justifiable in certain circumstances, if it really is all right to answer atrocity with equal atrocity ??? if the oppressed are justified in replicating the horrors done on them by their oppressors, upon said oppressors. This is a complicated moral and ethical tangle to be sure, one that people in the real world are themselves trying to address and having a hard time doing so. It is also usually not the sort of thing that readers of YA run into in their preferred genre, or if so, it is not tackled in the same manner or to the same depth as it is in this novel. To say that it results in some rather discomfiting thoughts is something of an understatement.

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