As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. The Minotaur – Minos’s greatest shame and Ariadne’s brother – demands blood every year When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives in Crete as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne falls in love with him. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country, and Ariadne knows only too well that in a world ruled by mercurial gods – drawing their attention…. Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Misogyny
- Rape
- Incest (mother-stepson)
- Sexual assault
- Suicide
- Pregnancy
- Blood & gore depiction
- Emesis
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a child
- Death of a parent
- Bestiality
- Animal cruelty
- Animal death
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