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Ambush or Adore by Gail Carriger

Ambush or Adore by Gail Carriger

Agatha Woosmoss, the Wallflower, is the greatest intelligencer of her generation. And no one knows she exists. She has been invisible, capable, and cunning for well over four decades. Her greatest skill is in her ability to go forever unnoticed. Except by one man. Pillover Plumleigh-Teignmott is a professor of ancient languages at Oxford University. He’s tried to ignore his training as an Evil Genius and live a quiet life away from politics and intrigue. When an assignment goes horribly wrong, Agatha must hide and heal. So she… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Disappearance of a loved one

Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger

Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger

Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott, code name Honey Bee, is the War Office’s best and most decorative fixer. She’s sweet and chipper, but oddly stealthy, and surprisingly effective given the right incentives. Sir Crispin Bontwee was knighted for his military service, but instead of retiring, he secretly went to work for the War Office. Mostly he enjoys his job, except when he must safeguard the Honey Bee. Neither one is a vampire expert, but when the Nottingham Hive goes badly Goth, only Dimity can stop their darkness from… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide mentioned
Blood depiction
Death of a sibling recounted

Poison or Protect by Gail Carriger

Poison or Protect by Gail Carriger

Lady Preshea Villentia, the Mourning Star, has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. Fortunately, she looks fabulous in black. What society doesn’t know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea’s employer. And Preshea has one final assignment. It was supposed to be easy, a house party with minimal bloodshed. Preshea hadn’t anticipated Captain Gavin Ruthven – massive, Scottish, quietly irresistible, and… working for the enemy. In a battle of wits, Preshea may risk her own heart – a terrifying prospect, as she never knew she had one.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abusive relationship recounted
Gun violence

Manners and Mutiny by Gail Carriger

Manners & Mutiny by Gail Carriger

Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine’s floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia’s sweet sootie Soap nearby. She would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored, and now she’s not sure whom to trust. What does the brusque werewolf dewan know? On whose side is the ever-stylish vampire Lord Akeldama? Only one thing is certain: a large-scale plot is underway, and when it comes to fruition… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & injury depiction
Fire
Explosion

Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger

Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger

Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style—with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. No one suspected what—or who—they would find aboard that suspiciously empty train. Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to throw all of London into chaos and she must decide where her loyalties lie, once and for all.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Classism
Blood & injury depiction
Gun violence
Kidnapping

Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Sophronia’s first year at school has certainly been rousing. First, her finishing school is training her to be a spy (won’t Mumsy be surprised!). Secondly, she gets mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and has a cheese pie thrown at her. Now, as Sophronia sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers’ quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship’s boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a school trip to London than at… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Classism
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Murder mentioned
Gun violence
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners, and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrols Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realises the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Gera… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Classism
Attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence
Explosions
Poisoning mentioned
Fire
Carriage jacking

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

When angels start falling from the sky, it seems like the world is ending. Smashing down to earth at extraordinary speeds, wings bent, faces contorted, not a single one has survived. As the world goes wild for angels, Jaya’s father uproots the family to Edinburgh intent on catching one alive. But Jaya can’t stand this obsession and, still reeling from her mother’s recent death and the sudden disappearance of her ex-girlfriend, she’s determined to stay out of it. Then something incredible happens: an angel lands right at Jaya’s feet – and it’s alive…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Death of a mother

Pax Novis by Erica Cameron

Pax Novis by Erica Cameron

Cira Antares is deeply loyal to two things: Pax Novis—the cargo ship captained by her mother that transports supplies across war-torn star systems—and her personal mission to save war orphans. But hiding them as stowaways on the ship is illegal, and if any of them were found, not even her mother could protect Cira from the consequences. She has successfully kept her secret. until supplies start to go missing. Food. Clothing. Tools. All signs point to her stowaways, but they wouldn’t do anything to risk exposing themselves… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Bombing

Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender

Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender

Lark Winters wants to be a writer, and for now that means posting on their social media accounts––anything to build their platform. When former best friend Kasim accidentally posts a thread on Lark’s Twitter declaring his love for a secret, unrequited crush, Lark’s tweets are suddenly the talk of the school—and beyond. To protect Kasim, Lark decides to take the fall, pretending they accidentally posted the thread in reference to another classmate. It seems like a great idea: Lark gets closer to their crush… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Transmisia
Panic attacks
Depression
Suicidal ideation
Pandemic (Covid-19)
Bullying
Gentrification