Here is an non-exhaustive list of content warnings for my novel Goda’s Slave. Since I cannot predict every topic that would be triggering to a person, as triggers are based on culture and individual experience, I have tried my best to include some of the common ones as a courtesy.
If a topic does not appear on this list, that does not mean that it is not present in the content of Goda’s Slave.
I may intentionally be vague to avoid spoilers or for other reasons. I also may have decided that certain things that some people find upsetting, such as alternative lifestyles or certain types of queerness, do not merit a warning at all, so keep that in mind. Some of the content in the novel pokes fun at mainstream values (even ones that I agree with myself) or is intentionally offensive, and I will not warn about any of this in a specific way, either.
That said, Goda’s Slave is not particularly graphic or explicit. Most people will find it rather mild. Pretty common stuff for romantasy or dystopian stories, in my opinion.
Keep scrolling for the content warnings.
Content Warnings for Goda’s Slave
- Frank discussion of suicide and death
- Frank discussion of racism, sexism, and xenophobia
- Depictions of colonization and subjugation of one culture by another culture (where systemic justice is not served)
- Depictions of injustice in general, with major characters both victims and oppressors
- Depictions of trafficking/enslavement of individuals
- Depictions of the use of drugs, poisons, alcohol, and entheogens
- Depictions of murder (both of humans and animals)
- Depictions of abuse, including by religious officials and law enforcement
Again, this is not an exhaustive list, but there you go. It’s a dystopia, so it has dystopian things in it, basically.