Merchants of Light and Bone Content/Trigger Warnings


This novel is intended for adult audiences and reader discretion is advised. Below is a list of material found in the book that some readers may find distressing:

  • Death, including the death of a child

  • Grief regarding the death of one’s child

  • Discussion of child abuse and depictions of a survivor of child abuse

  • Discussion of rape and sexual assault

  • On-page consensual sex

  • Suicidal ideation

  • Self-harm, including a child self-harming

  • Child abduction

  • Intense violence and torture

  • Gore

  • Cannibalism

  • Discussion of drug use and overdose

  • Slavery, including sex slavery

  • Transphobia

  • Sexism

  • Heavy swearing

  • Vomiting