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)