Right now I am on Murderbot Diaries book 5. So good. Martha Wells really captures anxiety and depression from an internal standpoint well without it being overbearing. The character growth of the main character over the series has been lovely to read. (ok so I’m reading Sci-Fi…)
The Demon Cycle book 2. A lot of real fucked up shit happens but it’s not gratuitous in description and the world and characters are interesting. At night humanity is plagued by demons, which seem to be impossible to kill except by trapping them and exposing them to the sun. They’re held at bay only by wards, a mostly defensive magic system of glyphs. It’s not uncommon for the wards to fail on some way, due to the imperfection of the warder, poor maintenence of the wards, or some mistake to mar them.
I’ve heard of Demon Cycle and read that it’s pretty good. Sounds interesting!
Book 1 is The Warded Man.
Ah, I just realized that I should warn you that it does contain r*pe. It’s not graphically described and it’s not copious but it’s probably come up at least once a book so far. I don’t think it’s really all that necessary to the plot, either.