Gilded by Marissa Meyer

Gilded by Marissa Meyer

Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Or so everyone believes. When one of Serilda’s outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her … Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption mentioned
  • Attempted non-consensual abortion
  • Minor body horror
  • Death of a sister mentioned (secondary character)
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping & disppearance of children discussed
  • Disappearance & presumed death of a parent discussed
  • Animal cruelty (horse)

Blood Fury by JR Ward

Blood Fury by J.R. Ward

A vampire aristocrat, Peyton is well aware of his duty to his bloodline: mate with an appropriate female of his class and carry on his family’s traditions. And he thought he’d found his perfect match—until she fell in love with someone else. Yet when his split-second decision in a battle with the enemy endangers the life of another trainee, Peyton has to face the idea that his future, and his heart, actually lie with another. Novo, as a female in the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training program, feels like… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicidal ideation
  • Miscarriage
  • Abortion
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
  • War themes
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Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

You’d think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you’d be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they’ve left their cargo of human women – including me – on an ice planet. And the only native inhabitant I’ve met? He’s big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape, on-page
  • Dubious consent scenario
  • Suicide
  • Drugging
  • Nonconsensual abortion
  • Starvation
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping
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Fan Club by Erin Mayer

Fan Club by Erin Mayer

Day after day our narrator, a gloomy millennial, searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women’s lifestyle website—entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box after box of perfectly packaged bits of happiness. Then, one night at a dive bar, she hears a message in the newest single by child-actor-turned-international-pop star Adriana Argento, and she is struck. Soon she loses herself to the online fandom, a community whose members feverishly track Adriana’s every move… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual harassment
  • Recreational drug use
  • Abortion mentioned
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Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke

Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke

High school junior Michie is struggling to define who she is for her scholarship essays, her big shot at making it into Brown as a first-generation college student. The prompts would be hard for anyone, but Michie’s been estranged from her mother since she was seven and her concept of family has long felt murky. Enter new kid and basketball superstar Derek de la Rosa. He is very cute, very talented, and very much has his eye on Michie, no matter how invisible she believes herself… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape & sexual assault
  • Parental abandonment
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Alcoholism mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Abortion discussed
  • Death of a grandparent recounted, off-page
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Careless by Kirsty Capes

Careless by Kirsty Capes

At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she’s pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he’s useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won’t understand. She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn’t spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn’t come without conditions. But this isn’t a love story… 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Forced marriage discussed
  • Rape
  • Foster care system
  • Postpartum depression
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Attempted home abortion
  • Attempted drowning
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The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir 

The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her colleagues Sævar and Hörður, commence an uneasy investigation, which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day. But as Elma and her team make a series of discoveries, they bring to light a host of long-hidden crimes that shake the entire community. Sifting through the rubble of the townspeople’s shattered memories, they have to dodge increasingly serious threats, and find justice … before it’s too late.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child sexual abuse
  • Abortion
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Death of a child recounted
  • Murder
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The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler’s armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army… Read more

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Pregnancy
  • Miscarriage & abortion mentioned
  • Starvation
  • Blackmail
  • Explosion & bombings
  • War themes
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo,

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In university, she is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships by her professor. In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager. At home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Depression
  • Pregnancy & childbirth
  • Miscarriage mentioned
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Bullying
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The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor 

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Ableism
  • Racism
  • Antiziganism
  • Homomisia
  • Graphic rape & statutory rape
  • Graphic sexual assault of a child
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Trauma
  • Nightmares & night terrors
  • Graphic suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Smoking
  • Pregnancy from rape
  • Abortion (theme)
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries, including mutilation and eye trauma
  • Cancer
  • Emesis
  • Hospital
  • Dismemberment
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother & father
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a brother
  • Death of a fiancé
  • Murder
  • Physical assault
  • Drowning
  • Rollercoaster accident
  • Car accident recounted
  • Graphic death of a pet dog
  • Bullying
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