Trigger Warnings & Content Warnings
Disclaimer: This is by no means a full list and there will be elements forgotten. It has been made to protect and care for readers as best as possible. This book was not made or intended to cause harm.
Definitions
Trigger: Something specific that is closely associated with trauma or addiction, such as child abuse, rape, panic attacks, and drug use to name a few. A trigger can provoke a negative reaction, such as panic depression, or relapse.
Content warning: Something more general that readers may want to know about before diving into a book, such as explicit violence, sex, or language. Content warnings aren’t as closely tied to trauma like trigger warnings are, and they’re subjective (a matter of personal preference). What some consider a content warning could be a selling point for another.
Trigger Warnings
Violence, blood, gore (on the page. It’s one brother killing the other, other deaths, and descriptions of characters dying in fires and by other means.)
Aftermath of sexual assault/ rape/ trafficking (not written on the page. However there is one part that is heavily detailed referring to it.)
Suicidal thoughts as a response to this (on the page).
Child death, child abuse, pedophilia (not on the page explicitly but referenced).
I have tried to make the more explicit points of these scenes shippable for readers. You obviously have enough empathy for these situations and can therefore feel it for the character without needing to read about it if you’re looking at this.
If you would like to skip these scenes see lines under chapter headings such as “CW// Violence and blood” which ends at the next line break. It should not impede your understanding of the text if you skip these sections. It is confronting for the reason of encouraging empathy in others around these topics.
What is unavoidable and could not be skipped would be some violence as well as snide comments and references towards trafficking. Not shown but child death and abuse. This is not richly detailed but is referred to and these things are alluded to throughout with foreshadowing and set up.
Content Warnings
- course language and swear words (shit, fuck, crap, arse, bitch, whore)
- kidnapping and abduction
- death/ dying
- animal injury
- classism and colonialism
- poverty
- alcohol consumption
- cigar smoking
- blood
- homophobia and mistreatment in relationship
- sex worker
- stripper
- queer characters (spicy moments but no sex)
- emesis
Ultimately, I wrote this book for the conversations I needed to have with myself. In saying all of this I hope you will see the novel as I do, that it is mostly a fantastical comedy with main characters that react to terrible situations in the best ways they believe are available to them. My deepest thanks for picking up this book and giving it a chance. Your support means all the worlds to me and keep yourself safe!
Helplines and resources are available and I encourage you to familiarise yourself with the ones in your area.
Tropes
More for fun this is a list of the tropes in the novel!
- found family
- grumpy sunshine
- the ultimate evil
- good vs evil
- good triumphs
- damsel in distress
- she saves herself
- supernatural romance
- hero’s journey
- secrete royalty
- magical creatures
- fantasy libraries
- different worlds
- the quest
- fish out of water
- the hidden world
- enemies to lovers
- forbidden love
- sworn off love
- training montage
- tragic backstory
- there was only one bed
- fake dating fake fiance
- slow burn