Content warnings
These books are explicit and written for adult readers, 18+. The lists below are the same ones printed at the front of each book. Take care of yourself. The book will wait.
THE ANNEALING
THE ANNEALING contains themes and scenes that some readers may find difficult, including:
institutional control, forced medication and chemical restraint (including involuntary dosing of minors), withdrawal symptoms, emotional numbing and dissociation, captivity, a romantic relationship that begins under institutional power imbalance and undisclosed surveillance (a captor/enforcer-captive dynamic, questioned on the page), a magical bond that heightens and shares physical and emotional sensation between partners, explicit sexual content, violence (including combat, killing, and burning injuries), betrayal, and death and loss, including parental death (off-page) and the loss of a childhood friend.
A note on the tonic: it is a tool of political control in this story, not a stand-in for real psychiatric medication. If medication helps you live your life, that is your power, not your cage.
THE QUENCHING
THE QUENCHING contains themes and scenes that some readers may find difficult, including:
institutional control, forced medication and withdrawal, captivity, imprisonment, and medical restraint, human experimentation and medical trauma, harm to and death of children, including experimentation on minors (referenced, not depicted), human trafficking (people transported and held as property), memory and identity loss, permanent cognitive damage from institutional abuse, war violence and mass death, a child in danger during a siege, on-page death of a major character and the grief that follows, and explicit sexual content.
A note on the tonic: it is a tool of political control in this story, not a stand-in for real psychiatric medication. If medication helps you live your life, that is your power, not your cage.
THE TEMPERING
THE TEMPERING contains themes and scenes that some readers may find difficult, including:
war violence and mass death, on-page deaths of named characters, including named women, a major character's death, grief and communal mourning, abduction and captivity of a child during wartime (not seriously harmed, resolved safely), institutional control and forced medication (carried over from earlier books), memory and identity loss (carried over; the condition is permanent, and this book does not cure it), and explicit sexual content.
A note on the tonic: it is a tool of political control in this story, not a stand-in for real psychiatric medication. If medication helps you live your life, that is your power, not your cage.