Tag Archives: Adult-Minor Relationship

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of adult-minor relationships, including all romantic, sexual and/or queerplatonic relationships between an individual under the age of eighteen (a ‘minor’) and an adult.

Ahsoka by EK Johnston

Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston

Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone Wars, and before she re-appeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally, her story will begin to be told. Following her experiences with the Jedi and the devastation of Order 66, Ahsoka is unsure she can be part of a larger whole ever again. But her desire to fight the evils of the Empire and protect those who need it will lead her right to Bail Organa, and the Rebel Alliance….

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Murder & executions
  • Gun violence
  • Police brutality
  • Torture (chp. 15)
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After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson

After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson

What happens when the lights go off after what might truly be an end-of-the-world event? How do you stay alive? Who do you trust? How much do you have to sacrifice?

Seventeen-year-old Pru Palmer lives with her twin sisters, Grace and Blythe, and their father, Rick, on the outskirts of an isolated mining community. The Palmers are doomsday preppers. They have a bunker filled with non-perishable food and a year’s worth of water. Each of the girls has a ‘bug out bag’, packed with water purification tablets, protein bars, paracord bracelets and epipens for Pru’s anaphylaxis… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Adult-minor relationship*
  • Statutory rape
  • Dental surgery
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Death of a sibling
  • Gun violence
  • Animal death & cruelty

*Note: Sexual relationship between a 19 year-old and a 15 year-old.

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Ghost House by Alexandra Adornetto

Ghost House by Alexandra Adornetto

After the loss of her mother, Chloe Kennedy starts seeing the ghosts that haunted her as a young girl again. Spending time at her grandmother’s country estate in the south of England is her chance to get away from her grief and the spirits that haunt her. Until she meets a mysterious stranger. Alexander Reade is 157 years dead, with secrets darker than the lake surrounding Grange Hall and a lifelike presence that draws Chloe more strongly than any ghost before. But the bond between them awakens the vengeful spirit of Alexander’s past love, Isobel… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship*
  • Slut-shaming
  • Cheating recounted
  • Suicide recounted
  • Death of a child recounted
  • Death of a mother
  • Drowning
  • Murder recounted

*Context: Romantic relationship between a 17-year-old girl and a 23-year-old man who has been dead for 157 years.

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community just weeks before an all-important competition, everything the Knoxes have worked so hard for feels suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, revealing hidden plots and allegiances, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself drawn, irresistibly, to the crime itself, and the dark corners it threatens to illuminate.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship*
  • Car accident (hit-and-run)
  • Lawnmower accident
  • Murder

*Context: Sexual relationship between a 15-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man.