Category Archives: Horror

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both. Then Coley Taylor moves… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Lesbomisia
  • Transmisia
  • Conversion therapy
  • Child abuse
  • Attempted suicide
  • Graphic self-harm
  • Drug use
  • Death of a mother & father in a car accident

Love Is the Higher Law by David Levithan

Love Is the Higher Law by David Levithan

The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him. Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event. As each gets to know the other, their moments become wound around each other’s… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • 9/11 (theme)

BVita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko

While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Depression
  • Attempted suicide
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Blackmail

Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She’s been able to support her unemployed mother–and Mom’s deadbeat-boyfriend-of-the-week–so far, but it isn’t enough. Money’s still tight, and to complicate things, Katrell has started to draw attention. Not from this world–from beyond. And it comes with a warning: STOP or there will be consequences. Katrell is willing to call the ghosts on their bluff; she has no choice. What do ghosts know of having sleep for dinner? But when her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Domestic abuse
  • Child abuse & neglect
  • Emotional abuse & gaslighting
  • Suicidal ideation (passive)
  • Cancer mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Fire
  • Graphic animal cruelty
  • Animal death (dog)
  • Poverty

Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan

Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan

It’s been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him—easier said than done since Mac’s best friend Connor was the murderer’s final victim. But when he finds a cryptic message from Connor, he’s drawn back into the search for the killer—who might not have been a random drifter after all. Now nobody—friends, neighbours, or even the sexy stranger with his own connection to the case—is beyond suspicion. Sensing that someone is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Queermisia
  • Drug use
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Murder

Hidden Truths by Neva Altaj

Hidden Truths by Neva Altaj

I’m trying to not fall for a man I shouldn’t want. Now, I’m fighting to stay away from my enemies, Only to end up in the hands of a crazed killer. But what will happen when we both reveal our hidden truths? The only place where a killing machine like me belongs. And I feel out of control, full of rage, Until a broken, injured woman stumbles onto my path, and there will be no escaping it this time. Sometimes, my demons come rushing back, Keeping her prisoner is my only option. That’s all I can do. And sending my demons to sleep. Close to losing myself completely. My sanctuary from the past. Awakening my protective instincts… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Human trafficking
  • Attempted sexual assault recounted
  • Child abuse
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Organised crime (bratva)
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping & captivity

The Art of Insanity by Christine Webb

The Art of Insanity by Christine Webb

Putting up a front and hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the hardest thing Natalie’s ever done. It’s her senior year, and she’s just been selected to present her artwork at a prestigious show. With the stress of performing on her shoulders, it doesn’t help when Natalie notices a boy who makes her heart leap. And then there’s fellow student Ella, who confronts Natalie about her summer car “accident” and pressures her into caring for the world’s ugliest dog. Now Natalie finds herself juggling all kinds of feels and responsibilities. Surely her newly… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Death of a parent
  • Car accident
  • Blackmail

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The Laws of the Skies follows the terrified children as they scatter into the night to escape danger, dressed only in their pyjamas. They face their darkest childhood fears and new imaginary threats, like trolls masquerading as boulders and child-eating tree trunks. A harrowing story of those days in the woods, of illness, poisoning, and accidents; of a love triangle among tots; a pint-sized hero; and a child on a murderous rampage that comes to a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Child abuse
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Graphic death of a child
  • Murder

Exes and O’s by Amy Lea

Exes and O’s by Amy Lea

Romance-novel connoisseur Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times by ten different men–all of whom dumped her because of her “stage-five clinger” tendencies. Nevertheless, Tara is determined to find The One. The only problem? Classic meet-cutes are dead thanks to modern dating apps. So Tara decides to revisit her exes in hopes of securing her very own trope-worthy second-chance romance. Boston firefighter Trevor Metcalfe will be the first to rush into a burning building but the last to rush into a relationship. Love just isn’t his thing. When… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexism

Resisting Mr Granville by Sam Mariano

Resisting Mr Granville by Sam Mariano

The night I met Mr Granville, he was slipping out of my mother’s bedroom. She was passed out drunk and I was on my own, but that was nothing new. It wasn’t even the first time one of her boyfriends looked at me for a little too long—just the first time I felt anything like interest in return. My mother and I had never been close, but I knew I had to pretend not to notice his hot gaze lingering on me when he was supposed to be there to see her, had to resist the temptation to lap up all the attention he offered me. Until the one night I didn’t After they broke up, I thought… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship*
  • Sexual assault
  • Domestic abuse

*Context : The heroine is eighteen-years-old and the hero is her mother’s much older boyfriend.