Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens… Read more.
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Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Slut-shaming and body-shaming
- Slavery
- Physical & psychological child abuse
- Infidelity
- Disownment
- Nightmares mentioned
- Coerced self-harm & suicide (on-page) and self-harm through mithridatism (the practice of building a tolerance to a poison by taking small, increasing amounts over time)
- Alcohol consumption & abuse
- Drug use & drugging
- Death of a pregnant character mentioned*
- Graphic blood, gore & injury depiction, including dead bodies, mentions of decapitation & dismemberment, & emesis
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of mother & father (prologue, on-page)
- Death of friend
- Death of a sister & brother
- Death by a fall mentioned
- Drowning
- Murder & attempted murder
- Torture
- Knife and sword violence & stabbing
- Strangulation
- Kidnapping & captivity
- Loss of autonomy (glamour magic)
- War themes discussed
- Bullying
*Context: A secondary character poisons his pregnant consort in an attempt to murder her and their unborn child.
