Thornchapel Content Notes

A lesson in thorns

This story has a character who experienced sexual violence once; this violence happens off page, before the events of the story, but is recounted briefly in the text.

Feast of Sparks

Chapter Seventeen contains a scene of violent bullying with racist and homophobic elements. This chapter can be skipped and its contents inferred from the following chapters. 

Additionally, a theme of incest appears in the last chapter of the story. While this chapter can be skipped in Feast of Sparks, the outcome of that chapter becomes necessary for understanding future events in the Thornchapel series.

Harvest of Sighs

The prologue of this book contains a depiction of suicide by poison in the nineteenth century. This section can be skipped and its events inferred from later chapters.

This book also has a character who experienced sexual violence once; this violence happens off page, before the events of A Lesson in Thorns, but it is referenced throughout.

There are suggestions of historic human sacrifice practiced at Thornchapel—these suggestions are vague but recurrent.

And finally, the theme of potential sibling incest is a central conflict in Harvest of Sighs and is pervasive to the story.

Door of Bruises

There are suggestions of historic human sacrifice practiced at Thornchapel—these suggestions are recurrent. There are discussions of ritual suicide and murder in a religious/magical setting.

This book also has a character who experienced sexual violence in the past; this violence happens off page, before the events of the story, but is referenced in Chapter Seventeen.

And finally, the theme of potential sibling incest is a central conflict in Door of Bruises and is pervasive to the story.