Adult-Minor Relationship – Page 9 – Trigger Warning Database

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

Sever by Lauren DeStefano

Sever by Lauren DeStefano

With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughn’s worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor named Reed. She takes refuge in his dilapidated house, though the people she left behind refuse to stay in the past. While Gabriel haunts Rhine’s memories, Cecily is determined to be at Rhine’s side, even if Linden’s feelings are still caught between them. Meanwhile, Rowan’s growing involvement in an underground resistance compels Rhine to reach him before he does something that cannot be undone. But what she discovers… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationships included forced polygamy
Hospitalisation
Medical experimentation

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationships included forced polygamy
Rape of a minor, off-page
Child pregnancy
Kidnapping

These Thorn Kisses by Saffron Kent

These Thorn Kisses by Saffron A. Kent

Eighteen-year-old, Bronwyn Littleton is in love with a stranger she met on a summer night a year ago. A stranger who was tall and broad in a way that made her feel safe. He had dark blue eyes that she can’t stop drawing in her sketch book. And he had a deep, soothing voice that she can’t stop hearing in her dreams.

That’s all she knows about him though…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Teacher-student relationship*

Note : Relationship between an eighteen-year-old female student and a thirty-three-year-old male teacher.

Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan

Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan

When a powerful viceroy arrives with a fleet of mechanical dragons and stops an attack on Anlei’s village, the villagers see him as a godsend. They agree to give him their sacred, enchanted River Pearl in exchange for permanent protection—if he’ll marry one of the village girls to solidify the alliance. Anlei is appalled when the viceroy selects her as a bride, but with the fate of her people at stake, she sees no choice but to consent. Anlei’s noble plans are sent into a tailspin, however, when a young thief steals the River Pearl for himself.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Attempted forced adult-minor marriage
Child neglect
Nightmares
Death of a father & mother recounted
Death of a wife recounted
Murder
Torture
Gun & knife violence
Fire
War themes & military violence
Animal attack

The Dilemma by B.A. Paris

The Dilemma by B.A. Paris

It’s Livia’s 40th birthday, and her husband Adam is throwing her the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never had. Everyone she loves will be there, except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. But Livia is secretly glad Marnie won’t be there.

Livia has recently uncovered a secret about their daughter which, if revealed, will shake the foundation of their family to its core. She needs to tell Adam, but she’s waiting until the party is over so they can have this last… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationship
Miscarriage
Death of a child

The Tradition by Jaye Robin Brown

The Tradition by Jaye Robin Brown

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed and celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Rape

The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown

The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown

Piper Kitts is spending the summer living with her grandmother, training at the barn of a former Olympic horseback rider, and trying to get over her ex-girlfriend. Much to Piper’s dismay, her grandmother is making her face her fear of driving head-on by taking lessons from a girl in town.

Kat Pearson has always suspected that she likes girls but fears her North Carolina town is too small… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Bimisia
Abandonment
Adult-minor relationship
Alcohol consumption
Car accident

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

Since she was seven years old, Yvonne has had her trusted violin to keep her company, especially in those lonely days after her mother walked out on their family. But with graduation just around the corner, she is forced to face the hard truth that she just might not be good enough to attend a conservatory after high school.

Full of doubt about her future, and increasingly frustrated by her strained relationship with her successful but emotionally closed-off father… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racist microaggressions discussed
Adult-minor relationship*
Parental abandonment & child neglect (theme)
Cheating
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Unplanned teen pregnancy
Abortion discussed, off-page
Homelessness mentioned
Financial struggles & poverty mentioned

* Note : Yvonne, the main character, turns eighteen during the story and her love interests are both adult men; one is a 21-year-old man and the sous chef at her father’s restaurant. She does not have penetrative sex with either of them until after her birthday but she was dating one of them when she was seventeen at the beginning of the book.

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller

It’s 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time. However, fresh starts aren’t as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at Liefdehuis begin to reach her. But Alva doesn’t believe in ghosts. So when the eccentric and brilliant professor, Samuel Moore, appears and informs her that he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationship
Forced child marriage
Physical & emotional abuse
Rape
Psychiatric hospitalisation of a child mentioned
Blackmail