A lonely teen awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god in this dark queer YA horror of body horror, trauma, and bloody devotion.
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A lonely teen awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god in this dark queer YA horror of body horror, trauma, and bloody devotion.
The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned. In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wa...
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Dark obsessive queer bond; bloody sensual devotion, not fully explicit
Graphic body horror, scales, blood, and visceral gory imagery throughout
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Central queer relationship and sexuality themes for the protagonist
Tithes and rituals offered to an eldritch sea god
Eldritch sea god, awakening ritual, and bodily transformation are central
Ritual summoning and obsessive bond with an eldritch entity
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Depression and mental illness themes; intense psychological distress
Brutal child abuse and generational trauma depicted on-page
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