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The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

Pray they are hungry. Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Cheating
Alcohol consumption
Drug use mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Death of a child
Gun violence
Torture
Animal death

Bryony and Roses by T Kingfisher

Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher

Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. Their merchant father died trying to reclaim his fortune and left them to eke out a living in a village far from their home in the city. But when Bryony is caught in a snowstorm and takes refuge in an abandoned manor, she stumbles into a house full of dark enchantments. Is the Beast that lives there her captor, or a fellow prisoner? Is the house her enemy or her ally? And why are roses blooming out of season in the courtyard? Armed only with gardening shears and her wits, Bryony must untangle the secrets of the house before she—or the Beast—are swallowed by them…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Nightmares mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Blood & injury depiction
Emesis
Death of a parent recounted
Kidnapping & captivity
Building collapse
Blizzard
Animal death recounted

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher’s new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighbouring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager’s city. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Body horror
Murder
Loss of autonomy (possession)

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

Pull three people out of prison–a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy. What could possibly go wrong? In the sequel to CLOCKWORK BOYS, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys. But the secrets they’re keeping could well destroy them, before the city even gets the chance…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Suicidal ideation
Murder
Loss of autonomy (possession)

City of Villains by Estelle Laure

City of Villains by Estelle Laure

Mary Elizabeth Heart is a high school senior by day, but by night she’s an intern at the Monarch City police department. She watches with envy from behind a desk as detectives come and go, trying to contain the city’s growing crime rate. For years, tension has simmered between the city’s wealthy elite, and their plans to gentrify the decaying neighbourhood called the Scar—once upon a time the epicentre of all things magic. When the daughter of one of the city’s most powerful businessmen goes missing, Mary Elizabeth is thrilled when the Chief actually puts her on the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction including dead bodies and dismembered body parts
Murder

Root Magic by Eden Royce

Root Magic by Eden Royce

It’s 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won’t stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven—and their uncle, Doc, tells them he’s going train them in footwork. Jez and Jay have always been fascinated by the African American folk magic that has been the legacy of her family for generations—especially the curious potions and powders Doc and Gran would make… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Racism
Hate crime
Death of a parent
Death of a grandparent
Police brutality
Animal death
Animal cruelty

The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

Natalie Cleary must risk her future and leap blindly into a vast unknown for the chance to build a new world with the boy she loves. Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start… until she starts seeing the “wrong things.” They’re just momentary glimpses at first—her front door is red instead of its usual green, and there’s a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn’t right. That’s when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Nightmares
Alcohol consumption
Physical injuries
Car accident

A Million Junes by Emily Henry

A Million Junes by Emily Henry

For as long as Jack “June” O’Donnell has been alive, her parents have had only one rule: stay away from the Angert family. But when June collides—quite literally—with Saul Angert, sparks fly, and everything June has known is thrown into chaos. Who exactly is this gruff, sarcastic, but seemingly harmless boy who has returned to their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, after three mysterious years away? And why has June—an O’Donnell to her core—never questioned her late father’s deep hatred of the Angert family? After all, the O’Donnells and the Angerts may have mythic legacies, but for all the tall tales they weave, both… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent recounted
Death of a sibling recounted
Animal death

The Messengers by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Messengers by Margaret Peterson Haddix

As book three of the Greystone Secrets series opens, the Greystone kids have their mother back from the evil alternate world, and so does their friend Natalie. But no one believes the danger is past. Then mysterious coins begin falling from unexpected places. They are inscribed with codes that look just like what the Greystones’ father was working on before he died. And with the right touch, those symbols transform into words: please listen, and find us, see us, help us. The coins are messengers, telling the Greystones and their allies that their friends in the alternate world are under attack—and that the cruel, mind… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Murder, off-page
Kidnapping
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

The Deceivers by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Deceivers by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Until their mother vanished, the Greystone kids—Chess, Emma, and Finn—knew nothing about the other world. Everything is different there. It’s a mirror image, except things are wrong. Evil. Their mother tried to fix it, but she and an ally got trapped there along with Ms Morales, their friend Natalie’s mom. Now the four kids—brave Chess, smart Emma, kind Finn, and savvy Natalie—are determined to rescue everyone. To do so, they have to go back: into the other world, where even telling the truth can be illegal. But in such a terrif… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Drugging with syringes
Gun violence