Content WarningS + PERSPECTIVES:
The Dryad’s Crown
** SPOILERS **
This novel includes:
Honest, inclusive, affirming views on polyamory, open marriage, sexual expression, and gender identity
Positive depictions of polytheism, paganism, and religious authority figures
Sex scenes between consenting adults and declaration of love, “heat level” ranges from warm to steamy, no raunchy or smutty words are used
Detailed child birth scene (delivery without complications of a healthy child)
Alcohol and recreational drug use (drinking mead, absinthe, and smoking “sweetleaf”)
Reference to child abuse (not shown)
Controlling parent figure
Death of a loved one
Violence and death (decapitation, shot by arrows, poisoning, disemboweled, burning, hanging corpses, stabbing, scars, drowning, war), no torture or rape/sexual assault
Violence against animals (livestock)
Trapped in collapsed cave, vivisepulture (character survives)
Natural disasters (earthquakes and flooding)
Imprisonment
Reference to stillbirth (not shown)
Partial paralysis due to injury (improvement over time, no cure)
Dementia in old age (implicit)