Tag Archives: Blood Drinking

The Fae Princes by Nikki St. Crowe

I thought Peter Pan was a myth and Neverland a fairytale. A story spun by my mother who had lost her mind a long time ago. But there was no denying the overwhelming shadow cast by Peter Pan when he was standing in my house. Pan took me captive to Neverland and I somehow found my place among him and the Lost Boys. I’ve never looked back. Now I’m entangled right alongside him in a war we can’t seem to escape. We thought we had defeated our enemies. We thought we could finally have our happily ever after. But there was one enemy we never saw… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Child abandonment recounted
  • Alcohol consumption & smoking (cigarettes)
  • Weight gain mentioned
  • Blood & injury depiction including vision impairment
  • Murder and rape of a sister recounted
  • Death of a father & grandmother recounted
  • Death & resurrection of a mother
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Attempted murder by vivisepulture (buried alive)
  • Physical assault & knife violence
  • Drowning
  • Loss of autonomy by possession & mind control (secondary character)

Devourer of Men by Nikki St. Crowe

I have few friends and fewer allies. What I do have on the island of Everland is a lot of people who want me gone. So when the Crocodile and Captain Hook reappear in my life, I am in no mood. And worse, they’re unknowingly endangering themselves by asking for me by a name I long considered dead. Now, not only do I have to save myself, I have to save the two men who I swore I would murder with my bare hands if I ever set eyes on them again considering they abandoned me. Unfortunately for me, Roc and Hook have other plans, and when I find myself caught between them, I have to make a decision: risk my heart or risk my life?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abandonment recounted
  • Physical & emotional child abuse recounted
  • Forced marriage recounted
  • Anxiety & nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption & smoking (cigarettes)
  • Blood & injury depiction including cannibalism, blood-drinking, amputation (hand), and needles
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Death of a sister mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault (mugging) & stabbing
  • Imprisonment recounted

Throne of Secrets by Kerri Maniscalco

Gabriel Axton—infamous as the Prince of Gluttony, the self-proclaimed rake of rakes—has always lived for indulgence: in delicious food, in tantalizing women, and most of all, in the thrill of the hunt, where his love of danger can take over. But when his favourite adventure takes a deadly turn, he realizes something is very wrong in his demon court. With the clock ticking, he must turn to the only one who might uncover the truth: a journalist he has spent a decade avoiding. Adriana Saint Lucent has been on the hunt for years—if she could just report something damning enough about… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood depiction & self-injury for blood
  • Death of a father recounted
  • Loss of autonomy (magical memory violation)

Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

The Prince of Envy has never claimed to be a saint. But when a cryptic note arrives, signalling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows it will take more than a hint of sin to win and save his falling demon court. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way, though none of his meticulous plans prepare him for her, the frustrating artist who ignites his sin like no other. The trouble with scoundrels and blackguards is that they haven’t a modicum of honour, a fact Miss Camilla Antonius learns after one desperate mistake allows Waverly Green’s most notorious rake to blackmail her. To avoid a ruinous… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Threats of sexual assault
  • Infertility mentioned
  • Blood & injury depiction including emesis, blood-drinking and minor self-injury for blood
  • Death of parents
  • Blackmail
  • Murder & kidnapping

Blood Gift by Vela Roth

Ancient magic is sleeping inside Cassia. Wielding it is her birthright, but her bloodright is to become an immortal Hesperine like Lio, her Grace. Until she masters her dormant magic, it’s too dangerous for him to transform her. To claim both her legacies, she must return to the land that holds the secrets of her power: the mortal kingdom where she was once powerless. Lio is ready to protect her with diplomacy, spells, or even his fists. He knows he’ll need them against the lord who is still betrothed to her under human law. Most dangerous of all, the necromancer known as the Collector lies in wait, planning to use… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Childbirth
  • Blood-drinking
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Knife violence
  • Kidnapping & captivity

The Ruined by Renée Ahdieh

The Sylvan Vale and the Sylvan Wyld are at war. Now that the unsteady truce between them has been broken, lines must be drawn. In an effort to protect the weakened Winter Court, Bastien rallies powerful allies and friends in New Orleans to come to their aid. Meanwhile, under protection alongside her injured mother in the Summer Court, Celine is uncertain of whom to trust. She cannot get word to Bastien, and does not understand why he has not returned. When she realises war between the fey courts is imminent, she journeys with Ali in an effort to find the time travelling mirror and change their fate… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse & neglect mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption (secondary characters)
  • Blood-drinking
  • Attempted murder by poisoned arrow and knives
  • Murder by gun violence
  • Graphic torture
  • Accidental explosion resulting in mass death
  • Graphic battles scenes with cannonballs and gunfire

A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford

Princess Imogen of Goslind has lived a sheltered life for three years at the boarded-up castle—she and the rest of its inhabitants safe from the bloody mori roja plague that’s ravaged the kingdom. But Princess Imogen has a secret, and as King Stuart descends further into madness, it’s at great risk of being revealed. Rations dwindle each day, and unhappy murmurings threaten to crack the facade of the years-long charade being played within the castle walls… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Anti-semitism
  • Poverty
  • Emotional abuse
  • Self-harm
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Blood drinking
  • Dead bodies
  • Decapitation
  • Pandemic/contagion
  • Starvation
  • Death of parents recounted
  • Mass deaths from pandemic
  • Captivity
  • Murder

Bite Me by Robyn Bachar

When an out-of-control spell triggers the zombie apocalypse, Lizzy Addams is left in the ruins of Chicago with only the unhinged commentary—and endless erotic appetites—of her inner demon for company. Her blood supply dwindling, Lizzy must find survivors to feed from, or die trying. Officer Angela Kinney was on duty when hungry corpses overwhelmed the city. Angie’s group of survivors look to her for leadership, but nothing prepared her for a beautiful monster who offers safety in exchange for blood. Sean MacMillan never expected to see Lizzy again after she rejected his attempts to lure her back to the vampire… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial slur
  • Rape recounted & off-page
  • Child sexual abuse by a stepfather resulting in pregnancy mentioned (secondary character)
  • Sex work mentioned
  • Emotional sibling abuse
  • Blood & gore depiction including body horror and blood-drinking
  • Physical injury & scar
  • Death of a mother from childbirth recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Stalking

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she’ll never trust him again. Now that she’s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away.

But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption (on-page, protagonist)
  • Blood, gore & injury depiction, including mentions of decapitation, blood-drinking and death from a vampire bite
  • Murder by stabbing during a knife fight
  • Near-strangulation
  • Loss of autonomy (magical curse)

A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone

A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone

When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel’s tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enough—keep her head down while she works in the house’s crumbling private library and while she hunts down any information as to why this remote manor tucked into the fog-shrouded moors would be the last place her mother was seen alive. But Thornchapel has other plans for her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape & attempted gang rape recounted
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Blood drinking
  • Death of a mother & father
  • Disappearance of a parent