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Violence
A lot
Content warnings list body horror, murder, death, physical abuse and fire injury; the preserved-corpse premise carries the gothic-horror charge reviewers describe
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate and clean
Sexual Content
Some
Veronica and Stoker are settled and happy; intimacy is affectionate and off the page
Substance Use
Barely any
Peripheral period drinking
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
References to forced institutionalisation, sexism, toxic relationships and animal abuse; the moral subject is the Victorian trade in women's bodies as spectacle
What this book is about
Asked to fit a breathing mechanism into a life-size waxwork, Stoker cuts in and finds a preserved human body. The ninth Veronica Speedwell traces the woman back through Victorian anatomical showmanship, asylums, and the people who decided she would be more useful as an exhibit.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Body horror and desecration of a corpse
Forced institutionalisation referenced
Animal abuse
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