The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal

This book is a dark, atmospheric novel that chronicles the brutal lives and tragic fates of royal children, their caretakers, and servants within a decaying 16th-century court. 

 

This book contains: abortion, alcohol, anxiety, atypical sexual objects, assassination, BDSM (elements), bestiality (implied), body horror, body shaming, cannibalism (themes), child abuse, controversial religious commentary, death/grief, deception, depression, derogatory terms, discrimination, divination, drugs, dubious consent, explicit autopsies, explicit sexual activities/nudity, gore, madness, miscarriages, murder, non-sexual nudity, parental neglect, potentially patently offensive content, pedophilia, pervasively vulgar content, profanity, prostitution, rape/sexual assault, Satan worship/witchcraft, self-harm, sex exploitation/trafficking, suicide (referenced), theft, torture, violence and voyeurism.