In the author's opinion, some of the content warnings below are spoilers. Read at your own risk.
Becca Bello does not glorify injury to nor degradation of any living being. Where there is trauma, her characters rise from it.Â
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Contains swear words.
When You Were Gone deals carefully and gently with all discussed trauma. This book contains no on-page violence.
The description below contains SPOILERS.
This book includes includes two scenes which describe the lead-up to sexual assault involving a date-rape drug. There is no on-page description of assault. There are references to other assaults.
This book discusses the deaths of a mother, a father, two adult sons, and a grandparent, including consideration of how to honor cremated remains.
Contains swear words.
This book mentions sex and includes discussion about the relative importance of sex to the characters. This book does not contain on-page sex, discussions of specific sexual activities, nor anatomical or slang-anatomy terms.
A character in this book experiences symptoms that could be described as depression.
This book represents a foster family poorly by indicating that the foster caregiver cares more for their biological family than for a foster child. The author personally believes that there are many great foster caregivers in the world; the role of the unempathetic foster caregiver is not a statement of foster caregivers generally.