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Violence
Some
Dark fairy tale peril and some violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Meta-fictional themes about narrative, agency, and who controls the story you're living
What this book is about
When Poison's baby sister is taken by phaeries and replaced with a changeling, Poison follows into the Realm to get her back — a journey that takes her through a world where stories have power and reality is malleable. Chris Wooding's YA dark fairy tale has a clever meta-fictional layer: Poison gradually realizes she is a character in someone else's story. Dark, inventive, and genuinely surprising.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Dark fairy tale violence
Meta-fictional themes
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