Karen Lykkebo - Fantasy Author & Crafter
Content warnings
We're all different and have our own limits to what we want to expose ourselves to, especially when it comes to entertainment.
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Below, I've summarized content warnings for my work. Where I may showcase graphic violence and gore, I do not write graphic sexual violence. If it's part of a character's story, it may be referenced, but without explicit on-page details.
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Note, it could contain spoilers for the stories.
Bear My Heart
Implied:
- Grief
- loneliness
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Mentioned:
- Death of parents (illness)
- dysfunctional PMS symptoms
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Depicted:
- anxiety
- sensory overload
Dirt You Shall Become
Elders of the Ground: Bodily horror
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Dirt You Shall Become: Depicted: Child disappearance
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Murder, She Wrote: Mild gore
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Gnome, Sweet Gnome: Off-page, non-graphic death of named dog without relations to the protagonist (it's not a beloved pet, I swear!), insects, bugs.
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My Heart is a Tulip: Mild gore
Drowned Hearts
Mentioned:
- murder of parent
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Discussed/depicted:
- Physical child abuse
- near-drowning
- corpses
- child bullies
Heir to The Sun
Implied:
- alcohol and drug abuse
- sexual abuse
- torture.
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Depicted/explicit:
- Abusive relationship (emotional and physical)
- narcissistic boyfriend
- fatal car crash
Now, and the Hour of Death
In the Darkness Lies the Grave: tight spaces, darkness, mild gore.
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A Man of the Sea: Seacritters in masses, mild gore.
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Now and the Hour of Death: mild gore
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The Haunting of My Harrowing Heart: mild gore, reference to suicide
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The Banshee: reference to rape and sexual assault.
The Palace of Winds
Winds of Destruction, book 1:
Implied:
- sexual abuse
- physical and emotional child abuse
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Discussed
- Alcoholism
- torture
- isolation.
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Winds of Desolation, book 2:
Implied:
- physical and emotional child abuse
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Depicted
- depression
- grief
- thoughts of suicide
- Alcoholism
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Winds of Determination, book 3:
Discussed:
- thoughts of suicide
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Depicted:
- Emotional abuse (family relations).​
Quill & Crow stories
The Sculptor: Bodily horror
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Thaw This Broken Heart:
Implied:
- suicide
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Depicted:
- post-partum depression