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Violence
Some
Magical combat with demons; some deaths; historical violence in backstory
Language
Some
Adult language throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Romantic content; nothing explicit
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Grief over Bree's mother's death runs through the entire novel; the psychological complexity of discovering your family's history is entangled with racial violence
What this book is about
Bree Matthews arrives at UNC's early college program still reeling from her mother's death in a car accident. When she witnesses a magical attack and joins the Legendborn—a secret society of students who are descendants of King Arthur's Round Table knights—she discovers her mother's death may not have been an accident. Deonn's debut weaves Arthurian legend, Black American history, and campus life into something entirely original, centering a protagonist whose experience of the secret order's history is complicated by that history's relationship to racial violence.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Grief as a sustained emotional undertone
Magical combat violence
Racial violence in historical backstory
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