This month we’re discussing “A Blade So Black” by L.L. McKinney, the first book in the NightmareVerse trilogy, retelling Alice in Wonderland with a Bi Black girl from Atlanta, Georgia.
PUBLISHER: Imprint
YEAR: 2018
LENGTH: 384 pages
AGE: Young Adult
GENRE: Fantasy
RECOMMENDED: Highly
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Topic 2: “House” Arrest. Begins at (12:58), CW for confinement, death.
Topic 3: Wounds. Begins at (26:07), CW for medical content.
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Book TWs: Graphic/Explicit CW for grief, blood, violence. Moderate CW for sexual content, cursing, adult/minor relationship, vomit, gore, murder, injury detail, child death, parental death, death. Minor CW for ableist language, racism, dementia, alcohol, gun violence, body horror. Brief Harry Potter reference.
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