The Killing Song by Felix Graves

Horror, Fantasy – Novel

Part of the itch.io bundle

Just as fierce pirate captain Romada is about to leave behind her high-stakes life and enter retirement, she and her brother Injago find themselves on an unexpected rescue mission after Romada’s girlfriend Neiara is abducted right in front of them; but when confronting the horrors in these holding camps they must make a choice: fully commit to this burgeoning resistance, or stop for nothing and no one to find Neiara before she’s lost to them forever.

Tropes
sword lesbians, butch lesbian, found family, antihero, rescue mission, unexpected hero, abduction, pirates, morally grey, tragedy, everyone is queer, big buff woman

Tags
F/F, sapphic, lesbians, butch lesbian MC, femme lesbian MC, lesbian sex, trans man MC, M/M, multi POV, pirates, faeries, queer, spice, masturbation, mental illness, boypussy

Content Warnings

depictions of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and panic disorders, including thoughts of despair, major depressive episodes, suicidal ideation, panic attacks, nightmares, disordered eating, dissociation, hallucinations, and intrusive thoughts, references to past emotional, mental, and physical abuse of a child by a parental figure, depictions of fantasy species-based racism toward adults and children, including hate crimes, use of slurs, rioting, slavery, mass incarceration, genocide, medical experimentation, and internment camps, depictions of extreme violence and gore, depictions of vomit, urination, and defecation, mass murders, including the murder of children, multiple depictions of coerced suicide, use of child soldiers, multiple uses of a fantasy weapon of mass destruction, on-page consensual sex scene, on-page masturbation, use of “cunt” to self-refer to a trans man’s genitals, death of a main character