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TNQ 20 | The Lightning-Struck Heart (Ch 9 - 16)

June 05, 2021 • The Novel Queers • Episode 20

Happy Pride, y’all!!!

Our second ever part of our first ever requested book, The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Book Daddy Klune, is here!

Thanks for the rec, jools10!

Sam Haversford wakes up to find that a dragon dropped a shed on him and made off with the prince! Things couldn't get worse. Except they could. And they do. Because now they have to save the prince.

Will Sam survive the world's longest road trip with his crush-not-crush-frenemy, Ryan?

Citrus: Lemony Lime
Sweetness: Confusing at Best
Gore: Moderate, but humorous

Trigger Warnings: g-slur used in book, words like whore and prostitute, poverty/slums, classism, physical violence, bullying, mostly lighthearted slut/prude shaming, secondhand embarrassment, building collapse, molestation (by a tree), nonsexual whipping, magical creature slavery, and magical creature racism

Mentions of food, alcohol, suicide, sex work, grooming, being eaten alive by tiny creatures, and more dick physics