One character is addicted to a smoked substance called leaf.
Characters in their teens are treated as adult soldiers and drink adult drinks: wine and ale. You'll find a few mourned deaths: A guard dies after an ambush, and someone's fiancé dies in the slaughter of her whole town. Expect many deaths on the battlefield but not many gory details: Some warriors possessing magic can only be disposed of by cutting off their heads and legs, and flying shrapnel tears up soldiers and stains the snow red. Just like in the first book, there's a war raging. If you haven't read the first series, you can still keep up - there's a map and some explanation near the beginning of the first book, Flamecaster, of how the magic in this world works. Parents need to know that Shadowcaster, by Cinda Williams Chima, is the second book in the Shattered Realms fantasy series, a spin-off of the bestselling Seven Realms series.
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