If You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen
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If You Want Me Close
| 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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Trigger Warnings
Author-Provided Warnings
The following content warnings are listed on the author's website:
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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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