If You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen

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If You Want Me Close
Cover of If You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen
Author(s) Skye Kilaen
Published May 10, 2022
Genre(s) Romance


If You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen is a romance novel, set to be published on May 10, 2022.

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Author-Provided Warnings

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Does NOT occur (for clarity, given the blurb and trope list):

  • Child death or injury

On-page or significant discussion:

  • Sex on page, explicit (Chapters 9, 14, 19, 26)
  • Character with depression mentions past suicide attempt and hospitalization; references to symptoms, medication use, and Rx side effects including sexual dysfunction
  • On-page depressive episode (Epilogue)
  • Rejection by conservative family in adolescence due to orientation
  • Child custody conflicts due to orientation, police involvement (non-violent)
  • Loss of community (Mormon)
  • Internalized homophobia / struggle with being gay in a hostile world
  • Biphobia
  • Grief
  • Death in a car accident (off-page, no injuries described)
  • Child losing a parent
  • Adult character’s mother is unexpectedly hospitalized (positive outcome)
  • Divorce from a spouse with severe alcoholism
  • Social drinking

Off-page or brief mention:

  • Food policing and weight judgment by past partners and current physician (no weights or sizes are specified)
  • Dating apps, negative aspects of gay hookup culture
  • Drug use at clubs
  • Drunk driver killed a teenage friend
  • Juvenile vandalism leading to community service sentencing
  • Infection from tattooing needles (mention of risk, no details)
  • Vomiting (one brief reference)

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