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There's an orphanage with magical children, and one of the children ("Lucy") is the antichrist. Part of the book's story of tolerance is about people accepting Lucy and his humanity. I'm like, well, it depends on whether or not Lucy hurts people. There's a scene where an intolerant religious person ("Marty") reacts negatively to Lucy. The point-of-view character ("Linus") enters the scene right after Lucy throws Marty against a wall hard enough to knock him unconscious: --- "What happened?" Linus demanded. Lucy looked up at him and shrugged. "Oh, he started talking about Jesus and God and that I was an abomination or something." He nodded toward the unconscious Marty. Around his neck hanging on a chain was an ornate silver cross. "He tried to shove that in my face." Lucy laughed as he shook his head. "What does he think I am, a vampire? That's silly. I like crosses." --- Marty was being unpleasant, but not violent. Lucy seems fine, laughing about it. Lucy reacted violently, though. And Linus endorses that violence ("Linus thought about giving him [Marty] another bump on the head with a well-placed kick"). I'm totally not on board with Lucy's violent reaction and how Linus approves of it. The other characters (the ones whose opinion we're supposed to care about) all think Marty's the bad guy and deserves violent punishment, but that Lucy is a good kid and needs protection from people like Marty. DNF 61%