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The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson

The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson

All winter long, people in the Green Hollows have prepared for a final battle with Gnag the Nameless and the Fangs of Dang. Janner, Kalmar, and Leeli are ready and willing to fight alongside the Hollowsfolk. But when the Fangs make the first move and invade Ban Rona, the children are separated. Janner is alone and lost in the hills; Leeli is fighting the Fangs from the rooftops of the city; and Kalmar, who carries a terrible secret, is on a course for the Deeps of Throg. Monsters and Fangs and villains lie between the children and their only hope of victory.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Domestic abuse
Child abuse

Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn’t as friendly as Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. And it isn’t as safe. When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her Home for Wayward Children, she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn’t save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Self-starvation recounted
Suicidal ideation
Attempted suicide
Drowning recounted
Bullying

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney—a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn’t want to help the system, she wants to destroy it. Sydney comes from the House of Shadows, which controls the magic with the help of sacrifices from magicians.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Torture

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn’t imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program—Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that there’s more to the school than meets the eye. Imogen might be living in the fairy tale she’s dreamed about as a child, but it’s one that will pit her against Marin if she decides to escape her past to find her heart’s desire.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical & emotional child abuse
Suicide
Self harm mentioned

Waterfell by Amalie Howard

Waterfell by Amalie Howard

Nerissa Marin hides among teens in her human form, waiting for the day she can claim her birthright—the undersea kingdom stolen from her the day her father was murdered. Blending in is her best weapon—until her father’s betrayer confronts Nerissa and challenges her to a battle to the death on Nerissa’s upcoming birthday—the day she comes of age. Amid danger and the heartbreak of her missing mother, falling for a human boy is the last thing Nerissa should do. But Lo Seavon breaches her defenses and somehow becomes the only person she can count on to help her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Murder of a father recounted
Disappearance of a parent

RoseBlood by AG Howard

RoseBlood by AG Howard

Rune Germaine moves to a boarding school outside of Paris, only to discover that at this opera-house-turned-music-conservatory, phantoms really do exist. RoseBlood is a Phantom of the Opera–inspired retelling in which Rune’s biggest talent—her voice—is also her biggest curse. Rune, whose voice has been compared to that of an angel, has a mysterious affliction linked to her talent that leaves her sick and drained at the end of every performance. Convinced creative direction will cure her, her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Antiziganism
Emotional & physical parental abuse
Human & sex trafficking
Stillbirth
Death of a parent from cancer
Kidnapping & hostage situation
Animal cruelty
Bullying
Poverty themes

The Hanged Man by KD Edwards

The Hanged Man by KD Edwards

The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man. Rune’s resistance will take him to the island’s dankest corners, including… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Rape of a child mentioned
Drug use
Amputation
Cannibalism mentioned
Murder
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

The Last Sun by KD Edwards

The Last Sun by KD Edwards

Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment’s missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam’s relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune’s Court. In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family’s death and the torments of his past?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Eating disorder
Suicidal ideation mentioned
Drugging
Torture mentioned

Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova

Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova

Lula Mortiz may be a bruja with healing powers, but after her family’s battle in Los Lagos, she feels broken in a way she can’t seem to fix. Then tragedy strikes when a bus crash leaves her friends and her boyfriend, Maks, dead. Desperate to reclaim normalcy, Lula invokes a dark spell to bring Maks back. It isn’t until she hears that all of the bodies from the crash have gone missing that she realizes something is wrong. Lula has unwittingly raised an army of casi muertos–creatures between the living and dead–and they’re hungry for freedom…which they can only achieve if Lula dies.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Self harm for blood magic
Blood & gore depiction
Dead bodies
Grief & loss depiction
Car accident

Wayward Witch by Zoraida Córdova

Wayward Witch by Zoraida Córdova

Rose Mortiz has always been a fixer, but lately, she’s been feeling lost. She has brand-new powers she doesn’t understand, and her family is still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiac father’s return home. Then, on the night of her Deathday party, Rose discovers her father’s memory loss has been a lie. As she rushes to his side, the two are ambushed and pulled through a portal to the land of Adas, a fairy realm hidden in the Caribbean Sea. There, Rose is forced to work with a group of others to save Adas. Soon, she begins to discover the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a parent
Kidnapping