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Trigger warnings · Content warnings

These are trigger warnings and content warnings so you can decide if a book is right for you — before you buy and before you review. They flag intensity; they are not a spoiler dump, and they are not saying the entire novel is unrelenting darkness. (It's not.)

Product listings list the most common items. This page is the full list.

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Bind Her Bones

Dark gothic fantasy with romantic tension and a heroine reclaiming power. Intensity is intentional and necessary to the plot.

Short version: graphic violence and torture, sexual coercion and assault, explicit sexual content (including blood), parental and institutional abuse, medical abuse, kidnapping and imprisonment, necromancy and corpse desecration, major character death, child endangerment, trauma and PTSD, forced bonding, genocidal violence against witches, and loss of autonomy.

Common tags: Graphic violence & torture · Sexual coercion & assault · Explicit sexual content · Parental & institutional abuse · Medical abuse · Child endangerment · Trauma & PTSD · Necromancy & corpse desecration

 

Violence & Gore

  • Graphic physical violence and injury
  • Torture (physical and medical)
  • Branding and burning of flesh
  • Blood and open wounds
  • Blood and injury in the mouth
  • Severed body parts / mutilation
  • Bone injury and bone-related body horror
  • Necromancy and animated corpses
  • Dead bodies and human remains
  • Grave desecration
  • Corpse desecration / abuse of corpses
  • Beating and prolonged physical assault
  • Murder
  • Violent combat with significant blood
  • War and battle aftermath imagery

Sexual Content & Consent

  • Explicit sexual content
  • Sexual coercion and non-consensual touching
  • Attempted sexual assault / predation
  • Blood during sexual scenes
  • Power-imbalanced sexual situations
  • Dubious or complicated consent
  • Forced or non-consensual metaphysical bonding (soul-binding)
  • Objectification and ownership of a woman’s body
  • Sexual threat and intimidation

Abuse, Control & Oppression

  • Parental abuse (emotional, physical, and psychological)
  • Religious and institutional abuse
  • Medical abuse and non-consensual experimentation
  • Forced marriage / treatment of women as property
  • Imprisonment and confinement
  • Kidnapping / abduction
  • Gaslighting and psychological manipulation
  • Slavery and ownership of mortals
  • Surveillance and loss of privacy
  • Systematic persecution and killing of witches and mixed-blood people (genocidal violence)
  • Class and power oppression
  • Themes of forced reproduction / breeding

Trauma, Mental Health & Emotional Distress

  • Trauma responses, flashbacks, and dissociation
  • PTSD symptoms
  • Nightmares and night terrors
  • Severe grief and parental loss
  • Death of loved ones
  • Guilt and self-blame
  • Emotional breakdowns and panic
  • Loss of bodily autonomy
  • Identity under extreme control
  • Moral injury
  • Suicidal ideation and desire for death as release

Body & Medical Horror

  • Non-consensual medical examination and experimentation
  • Needles / syringes
  • Body horror related to magic, fire, and transformation
  • Blood magic and extraction imagery
  • Forced use of body parts (bone, blood)
  • Body fluids

Child Harm

  • Child endangerment
  • Children restrained / chained
  • Harm to minors (on-page and in backstory)

Other

  • Fire and burning (including people)
  • Alcohol use
  • Animal distress (minor)
  • Religious trauma and corrupted faith