Second Daughter
Content Warnings
This novel deals with many hard and uncomfortable themes, such as violence, physical abuse, familial manipulation, and sexual assault. There are many instances where characters use a knife to make themselves or others bleed, which can be triggering for self-harm survivors.
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See the full list below.
Violence
Blood (knives, drinking, cutting, ritual use)
Drugging (non-graphic, non-sexual)
Graphic gore and death
Familial death
Kidnapping
Murder
Physical abuse (past, non-POV character)
Sexual abuse (implied past, POV : Ziya)
War (past, present, and future)
Mental Health
Addiction (non-graphic, POV : Kalin)
ADHD (POV : Ziya)
Alcohol consumption (casual, non-alcoholic)
Anxiety (POV : Eve, Ziya)
Drug use (past, POV : Kalin)
Grief (spouse death POV : James, sibling death POV : Kalin)
Familial manipulation (POV : Kora, Ziya)
Fantasy racism (prejudice against fantasy races, past genocide)
Note: POC POV (Eve, Ziya) and POC non-POV (Leila, Mika) experience fantasy based racism. Eve in particular experiences race-based fear, but it’s not about her Blackness—it is her fantasy race which is secret in the beginning of the novel.
OCD (vaguely, POV : James)
Suicidal ideation (brief, vague, POV : Ziya)
War PTSD (POV : Kalin, mild POV : James)
Sexual
Age gap (it’s a vampire romance)
Anal
Blood play
Cunnilingus
Dom/Sub (vaguely)
Exobitionism (brief, accidental)
Fingering
Hand jobs
Primal (claiming, marking)