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Toffee by Sarah Crossan

Toffee by Sarah Crossan

One is trying to forget. The other is trying to remember.

After running away from an abusive home, Allison finds herself taking shelter in a shed behind an abandoned house. But the house isn’t empty after all; an elderly woman named Marla, who suffers from dementia, lives there. And rather than turn her away, Marla welcomes her – she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past named Toffee.

Allison is used to hiding who she really is, and trying to be what other people want her to be, so she decides to play along. But as their bond grows, and Allison discovers how much Marla needs a real companion, Allison begins to waver. They both deserve a home, a safe place, and a family – but at what cost?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexism
Slut shaming
Sexual harassment
Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse (theme)
Domestic violence and physical & emotional abuse
Elder abuse
Cheating mentioned
Depersonalisation
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use (smoking)
Death from childbirth & traumatic childbirth mentioned
Dementia (theme)
Minor blood depiction & physical injuries, including burns
Emesis
Hospital
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & wife recounted
Homelessness
Animal death
Death of a pet dog mentioned
Animal attack mentioned

Repo Virtual by Corey J. White

Repo Virtual by Corey J. White

The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities — augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.

Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He’s been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Transmisia
Deadnaming & misgendering
Blackmailed outing*
Racism & racial slurs
Classism
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Graphic physical injuries & chronic pain
Death of a friend (on-page)
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Explosions
Gun violence
Strangulation
Kidnapping
Car accident
Fire
Blackmail
Flood
Cults
Animal death mentioned
Poverty themes & homelessness

*Note: the transgender protagonist is blackmailed to investigate a crime by a man with documents that would out her as a trans woman and her past as a secret agent.

Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets Finn, a gorgeous, enigmatic young lord who introduces her to the secret world of Albion’s nobility, a world that has everything Jessamin doesn’t—power, money, status…and magic. But Finn has secrets of his own, dangerous secrets that the vicious Lord Downpike will do anything to possess. Unless Jessamin, armed only with her wits and her determination, can stop him.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & racial slurs
Misogyny
Persecution for witchcraft
Sexual harassment
Parental abandonment
Forced marriage
Nightmares & night terrors
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Eugenics
Graphic blood and injury depiction
Emesis
Death of parents recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Torture
Fire
Kidnapping & captivity
Colonialism & war themes
Animal death & murder of a pet
Animal injury
Bullying

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankentstein by Kiersten White

Elizabeth Lavenza hasn’t had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her “caregiver,” and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets . . . until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything–except a friend.

Victor is her escape from misery. Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable–and it works. She is taken in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a warm bed, delicious food, and dresses of the finest silk. Soon she and Victor are inseparable.

But her new life comes at a price. As the years pass, Elizabeth’s survival depends on managing Victor’s dangerous temper and entertaining his every whim, no matter how depraved. Behind her blue eyes and sweet smile lies the calculating heart of a girl determined to stay alive no matter the cost . . . as the world she knows is consumed by darkness.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Classism
Misogyny
Slut shaming
Graphic physical, verbal & emotional abuse
Parental abandonment
Intimate partner abuse & violence
Nightmares
Self-sacrifice (on-page) & suicidal ideation mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Graphic dead bodies & body parts
Graphic physical injuries & wound descriptions
Graphic medical procedures & experiments
Emesis
Forced hospitalisation
Body horror
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother recounted
Death of an uncle (off-page)
Death of a friend
Death of a child
Death of a brother
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Graphic strangulation
Hanging (off-page)
Fire (multiple scenes)
Kidnapping & captivity
Building collapse
Stalking
Graphic animal abuse (on-page) & animal death

The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde

The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde

As a rock star drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King’s life should be perfect. But there’s nothing the paparazzi love more than watching a celebrity crash and burn. When a night of partying lands Emmy in hospital and her girlfriend in jail, she’s branded the latest tabloid train wreck.

Luckily, Emmy has her friends and bandmates, including the super-swoonworthy Alfie, to help her pick up the pieces of her life. She knows hooking up with a band member is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Keep. Kissing.

Will the inevitable fallout turn her into a clickbait scandal (again)? Or will she find the strength to stand on her own?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Queermisia, homomisia & bimisia
Coming out themes
Body shaming
Child abuse & neglect
Abusive relationship
Anxiety
Alcohol consumption
Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Minor blood depiction and physical injuries
Hospital
Emesis
(Tattoo) needles
Car accident
Online harassment
Stalking from paparazzi and invasions of privacy

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou.

This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a mysterious cat joins them, and they are haunted by a group of threatening men. To stay safe, Bea and Lou must trust each other as they are driven to confront buried truths.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape recounted
Panic attacks
Death of a parent recounted

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As new member Mia gets to know her team, the story flashes back to her pivotal year in boarding school, where she fell in love with a mysterious new student. Soon, though, Mia reveals her true purpose for joining their ship—to track down her long-lost love.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misgendering
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction
Bullying
Murder

Nailbiter Vol. 2: Bloody Hands by Joshua Williamson & Mike Henderson

Nailbiter, Vol. 2: Bloody Hands by Joshua Williamson & Mike Henderson

Army interrogator Nicholas Finch is hot on the trail for why sixteen of the world’s worst serial killers are all from the same small town, but his path to answers is lettered with deadly intentions. There are dark forces that don’t want the secrets of Buckaroo and it’s murderous past to be revealed. And the Nailbiter himself has to deal with being thrown in the spotlight again!

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Teacher-student relationship
Cheating
Pregnancy & childbirth (secondary character)
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Hospital
Death of a son
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & Stabbing
Kidnapping
Fire recounted
Attempted drowning

Nailbiter Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood by Joshua Williamson & Mike Henderson

Nailbiter, Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood by Joshua Williamson & Mike Henderson

“Where do serial killers come from?” and why has Buckaroo, Oregon given birth to sixteen of the most vile serial killers in the world?

NSA Agent Nicholas Finch needs to solve that mystery in order to save his friend, and he’ll have to team up with the infamous Edward “Nailbiter” Warren to do it.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexual harassment
Suicide mentioned & on-page attempted suicide
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Hospital
Cannibalism
Dismemberment & amputation
Nonconsensual body modifications
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Gun violence
Knife violence & stabbing
Hanging
Kidnapping
Imprisonment
Fire
Graphic animal dead bodies

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn’t think–she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with “the smiling man,” a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price.

Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she’s been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? Ollie doesn’t have too long to think about the answer to that. On the way home, the school bus breaks down, sending their teacher back to the farm for help. But the strange bus driver has some advice for the kids left behind in his care: “Best get moving. At nightfall they’ll come for the rest of you.” Nightfall is, indeed, fast descending when Ollie’s previously broken digital wristwatch, a keepsake reminder of better times, begins a startling countdown and delivers a terrifying message: RUN.

Only Ollie and two of her classmates heed the bus driver’s warning. As the trio head out into the woods–bordered by a field of scarecrows that seem to be watching them–the bus driver has just one final piece of advice for Ollie and her friends: “Avoid large places. Keep to small.”

And with that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableist language
Nightmares
Suicide, mentioned
Mild blood and injury
Grief depiction
Death of a mother, mentioned
Death of a husband, mentioned
Death of a father, mentioned
Death of a brother, mentioned
Death of a child, mentioned
Murder
Fire
Plane crash
Disappearance of a loved one, recounted
Bullying