Tag Archives: Alcohol Consumption & Abuse

Skies Over Caledonia by Samantha Young

It’s been five years since Jared McCulloch’s grandfather Collum passed away and he inherited his farm in the Scottish Highlands. After his grandad saved him from his past life, Jared is determined to honour Collum’s legacy. But not only has a series of bad luck put him in danger of losing the farm, his estranged father is disputing the will. In a desperate situation, Jared realizes he’ll do just about anything to save the land. Even marrying Allegra Howard, a woman he’s avoided at all costs. A woman who tempts him… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Child sexual abuse mentuioned
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Hospitalisation
  • Alcohol consumption & drug use mentioned
  • Car accident
  • Stalking

A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young

When event planner Hallie Goodman receives party-inspiration material from the bride of her latest wedding project, the last thing she expects to find in the files are digital videos from Darcy’s ex-boyfriend. Hallie knows it’s wrong to keep watching these personal videos, but this guy is cute, funny, and an astronaut on the International Space Station to boot. She’s only human. And it’s not long until she starts sending e-mails and video diaries to his discontinued NASA address. Since they’re bouncing back, there’s no way anyone will ever be able to see them… right? Christopher… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Parental divorce
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Emesis

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism & homophobia mentioned
  • Anxiety & depression
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man–any rich man, no matter how awful. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call–by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. Unfortunately, he is also the richest. Can a sharp-tongued, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and a greedy toad of a father? Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Alcohol consumption mentioned (secondary characters)
  • Miscarriage & death during childbirth
  • Hanging mentioned
  • Death from a knife wound mentioned
  • Animal attack (secondary character, dog)

She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin  pushed  and if so, by whom and why? Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
  • Divorce recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Hospitalisation for a traumatic brain injury & coma sustained in an attempted suicide mentioned

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill

When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother’s doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother support her ambition or send her back to finish her degree? What will her parents say when they learn of her decision? Does she even have what it takes to be a successful writer? What Theo never expects is to be drawn into a hidden literary world in which identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of an audience. When her mentor, a highly successful… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted paedophilia & child sexual assault recounted
  • Attempted sexual assault by a teacher recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder & attempted murder by gun & knife violence
  • Police violence (shooting)

Context : The protagonist was nearly assaulted by a paedophile when she was 10 years old, but her brother stabbed her attacker and saved her.

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved décor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years. As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started. Everyone in my family has killed someone. My brother. My stepsister. My wife. My father. My mother. My sister… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Alcohol consumption & drug use (on-page)
  • Graphic physical injury & emesis
  • Death of a child recounted
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Torture (off-page)
  • Kidnapping
  • Incarceration recounted (secondary character)

Armada by Ernest Cline

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption & drug use (on-page)
  • Gun violence

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world’s digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator’s obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win—and confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Murder of an aunt in an explosion
  • Alcohol consumption & smoking mentioned