Content Warnings

• Kidnapping (she was not asked)
• Forced marriage (barely asked)
• Parental abuse and gaslighting, including a mother who carves runes into her child's bones and a father so awful the Dark Lord looks like the healthy option
• Blood, gore, and decapitations as a flirting technique
• Casual mentions of torture
• Murder (casual, frequent, occasionally to let off steam)
• Poisoning (it's character building)
• Animal harm: one bird (gently) sacrificed to science, one mouse threatened for instructional purposes, one fox familiar eaten by a dragon (Off page. We're not monsters all the time.).
• Explicit sex, both private and aggressively public (the court is sexually liberated)
• Dubious consent themes (magical): an aphrodisiac that backfires humorously, and looming compulsion threats
• Body horror: See: Parental abuse, above, plus one large skeleton friend made of many small skeleton donors
• Golf, but with enemy eyeballs

Mass Kidnappings, plus one attempt on the heroine that goes badly for the kidnappers

Ritual blood sacrifice and blood magic, a volunteer drive for "willing" blood donors, and ritual cuts for spellwork

Child abuse and emotional abuse, mostly in flashbacks: a boy strapped to an altar so his mother can carve his bones, a child raised as a weapon, a girl locked in a tower

Death of a parent (a mother's murder, remembered and grieved, not shown)

Sexual violence, mostly in backstory and never shown: a conception by assault, a seventeen-year-old sold to a demon with the rest left to implication, and one implied threat from alley muggers that gets interrupted

Trauma flashbacks and panic responses on the page, including one in the middle of a fight

Blood, gore, and decapitations (one demon, who will be fine once someone summons it again; three assassins who interrupt dinner, who will not)

Dismemberment, including a rotting arm on the bed

Murder (casual, frequent, and now at scale, with bound guards executed)

Torture and cruelty, on the page, via a beating, an interrogation, and other threats

Choking, both consensual and very much not

Poisoning, addiction, and heavy drinking

Animal harm: one mutant boar dispatched in self-defense, one rooster eaten by a dragon (off page, complaint lodged), and the dragon herself briefly trapped in a cage (she gets out and is not pleased)

Explicit sex and sexual situations, with a background orgy, vampire bites, and a naked minotaur

Birth control and a permanent magical sterilization, discussed with relief by two people who agree they would be terrible parents

Dubious consent themes (magical): an aphrodisiac wine that makes everything "too much", compulsion magic attempted on a spouse, and later a magical sleep cast on a spouse without asking

Mind control and possession, including memory tampering, compelled violence, a voice in someone's head with terrible advice, and a hijacker who narrates its host's sex life and gets handsy with a body it does not own (nothing explicit, and the manners are appalling)

Body horror: See: Child abuse, above, plus a twenty-foot skeleton assembled from many smaller donors, reanimated corpses cross-examined about a spy, and a spa with venom facials (fatality rate under ten percent) and a weekly face-dissolving acid peel

Cornhole, but with pickled organs

This book is meant for adults 18 and over. It contains mature language, graphic violence, and explicit content with darker elements.

Of Exile and Song is set in a medieval style dark fantasy world ruled by a blood-thirsty tyrant, where anyone who is deemed “different” is reviled and subjected to torture, slavery, or death. As a result, the main female character begins the story with ongoing emotional trauma.

Certain other elements might be difficult for some readers, including graphic (consensual) sexual content; graphic violence; references to sexual violence and an attempted sexual assault; past family trauma; death of a friend/person who is disabled; and starvation.

Certain other elements might be difficult for some readers, including graphic (consensual) sexual content; graphic violence; references to sexual violence; past family trauma; and torture.

This book is meant for adults 18 and over. Of Monsters and Runes is set in a medieval style dark fantasy world overshadowed by war, conflict, and human predators.

Certain elements might be difficult for some readers, including graphic (consensual) sexual content; graphic violence; references to sexual violence and an attempted sexual assault; past family trauma; death of a parent.