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City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Hate crimes
Child abuse recounted
Intimate partner violence recounted
Disownment
Substance addiction mentioned
Nightmares
Nonconsensual drugging
Infertility themes
Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking
Physical injuries
Dead bodies
Medical experimentation
Comas
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a brother
Death of a parent
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence
Explosion
War themes & battle scenes

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

The shadow of Godolia’s tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords.

Eris Shindanai is a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When one of her missions goes awry, Eris meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. At first Eris sees Sona as her mortal enemy, but Sona has a secret: She has intentionally infiltrated the Windup program to destroy Godolia from within. As the clock ticks down to their deadliest mission yet, Eris and Sona grow closer…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood & gore depiction
Torture
Gun violence
Immolation

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Graphic blood & injury depiction including body horror and dead bodies
Death of a mother & father recounted
Death of a friend, on-page & recounted
Death of a girlfriend in a stampede recounted
Murder, mass murder & attempted murder, on-page
Tank accident
Physical assault, on-page
Gun violence, on-page
Shipwreck
Drowning discussed
Torture
Whipping mentioned
Knife violence & stabbing, on-page
Riots, on-page
Police brutality & violence, on-page
Fire & immolation
Graphic penal labour & inhumane imprisonment (theme)
Homelessness recounted
Animal death
Animal attack

These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

Brie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, she’ll do whatever it takes to get her back—including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court. Caught between two dangerous courts, Brie must decide who to trust with her loyalty. And with her heart.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Parental abandonment
Forced sex work mentioned
Nonconsensual drugging
Blood depiction
Death of a mother & father
Murder mentioned
Kidnapping
Blackmail
Fire & house fire
Animal attack
Labour camps

The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer

The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer

Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick. But it is difficult for Riley to enjoy his new life, for he has always believed in his heart of hearts that Garrick will someday, somehow, return.

Chevie has assured Riley that Garrick was sucked into a temporal wormhole, never to emerge. The full nature of the wormhole has never been understood, however, and just as a human body will reject an unsuitable transplant, the wormhole eventually spits Garrick out. By the time Garrick makes it back to Victorian London, he has been planning his revenge on Riley for centuries. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, as the three discover when they are tossed once more into the wormhole and spill out in a Puritan village.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Persecution for witchcraft discussed
Death from a heart attack
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Needles
Death of a father mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Knife violence
Motorcycle accident recounted
Death from animal attack (bear) mentioned

The Hangman’s Revolution by Eoin Colfer

The Hangman’s Revolution by Eoin Colfer

F.B.I. agent Chevie Savano is trapped in a nightmare future. Unless she can return to 19th-century London and change the course of history, millions will die.

Luckily she has Riley the boy magician and a Victorian gangster with lovely hair to help her battle two crazed villains, who have brought the military technology of the future back in time – with potentially disastrous consequences.

The stakes are higher than the hangman’s noose and only Chevie can save the day. Assuming she can avoid being killed by a couple of psycho warrior-nuns first . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Death of a father mentioned
Death of a friend mentioned
Murder
Explosions & bombings
Gun violence
Hanging mentioned
Torture mentioned
Drowning
Death from animal attack (rat) mentioned
Animal death mentioned

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run.

Riley has been pulled into the FBI’s covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Dismemberment
Nonconsensual body modifications (tattoo)
Death from cholera mentioned
Death of a parent recounted
Murder (theme)
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence
Poisoning
Kidnapping
Motorcycle accident recounted
Death from animal attack (bear) mentioned

Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed… But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Antisemitism
Racism & racial slurs
Rape & attempted rape
Child abuse
Domestic abuse mentioned
Self harm
Blood depiction
Fire
Animal cruelty
Bullying

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

As the cops close in, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood depiction
Rape mentioned
Domestic violence mentioned
Cheating
Murder
Death of a parent recounted
Poisoning mentioned
Disappearance of a spouse
Animal death

Just One Day by Gayle Forman

Just One Day by Gayle Forman

When sheltered American good girl Allyson “LuLu” Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Islamophobia
Blood depiction
Alcohol consumption