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The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

It’s 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse recounted
Parental abandonment
Panic attack
Suicide recounted
Alcohol consumption
Drugging mentioned
Stillbirth recounted
Blood & physical injuries depiction
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & father in a fire recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Physical assault
Explosion
Poisoning
Kidnapping & hostage situation
Blackmail
Colonialism & slavery discussed
Animal death mentioned

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she’s buried beneath anger-induced blackouts. Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide & suicidal ideation mentioned
Self-harm
Death of a child mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Graphic cannibalism
Murder
Torture
Animal abuse & cruelty
Animal death

Sacrifice by Katee Robert

Sacrifice by Katee Robert

All my life, I’ve wanted nothing more than to escape my father’s compound. Half human, half vampire, I have none of the perks and all of the weaknesses. Well, my father’s finally found a use for me. He’s sent me to Malachi Zion, the last vampire in his family. My role is to play resident blood bank and, should Malachi knock me up, my father gets access to a whole new bloodline to control. No one asks me what I want. But the longer I spend with Malachi, the more I realize that he’s not the monster I first thought, which makes it harder to resist the heat that flares between us. And then his two friends show up and complicate things…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Dubious consent scenario
Suicide mentioned
Pregnancy discussed
Scars
Blood depiction & blood play

The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody

The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody

Ryn Gilbert’s life changed irrevocably a year ago when her best friend, Lottie, was behind the wheel of a T-boned car. Ryn has held onto many things ever since, including one text message that allows her to keep Lottie near— it has gotten to the point that she questions her own sanity, and even keeps her therapist from knowing that she still sees and speaks to her friend. Ryn Gilbert’s life changed irrevocably a year ago when her best friend, Lottie, was behind the wheel of a T-boned car. Ryn has held onto many things ever since, including one text message that allows… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Panic attacks
Blood depiction
Emesis
Car accident

For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten

For the Wolf by Hannah F. Whitten

As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose-to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he’ll return the world’s captured gods. Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can’t control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can’t hurt those she loves. Again. But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn’t learn how to use it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the Wilderwood-and her world-whole.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental emotional abuse & neglect
Anxiety & panic attacks
Audio & visual hallucinations
Self-harm for magic (cutting)
Blood depiction
Emesis
Death of a parent

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

Paris has survived the Great Houses War – just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens continue to live, love, fight and survive in their war-torn city, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once grand capital. House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, lies in disarray. Its magic is alluring; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicidal ideation
Drug use & abuse
Blood and gore depiction
Mutilation
Torture
Colonialism

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire. But Akaran has its own secrets… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Sexual assault by coercion
Child abuse
Domestic violence recounted
Arranged marriage
Forced attempted suicide
Stillbirth mentioned
Blood & genital mutilation mentioned
Death of a child
Death of a mother
Torture mentioned
Captivity
Bullying
War themes

Goldie Vance, Volume Two by Hope Larson

Goldie Vance Vol. 2 by Hope Larson and illustrated by Brittney Williams

Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel’s in-house detective. When Charles, the current detective, encounters a case he can’t crack, he agrees to mentor Goldie in exchange for her help solving the mystery.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Amnesia
Blood depiction
Hospital
Disappearance
Physical assault

Runebinder by Alex Kahler

Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler

When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst for power caused mankind’s downfall instead. Now once-human monsters called Howls prowl abandoned streets, their hunger guided by corrupt necromancers and the all-powerful Kin. Only Hunters have the power to fight back in the unending war, using the same magic that ended civilization in the first place. But they are losing. Tenn is a Hunter, resigned to fight even though hope is nearly lost. When he is singled out by a seductive Kin named Tomás and the enigmatic Hunter Jarrett…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Dubious consent scenarios
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Death of a friend
Graphic murder
Torture
Animal death & hunting

A Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie French

A Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie French

It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen–year–old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England learning to be a young lady. But the war is coming closer: Midge’s brothers are in the army, and her twin, Tim, is listed as ‘missing’ in the devastating defeat of the ANZAC forces at Gallipoli. Desperate to do their bit and avoid the boredom of school and the restrictions of Society. Midge and her friends Ethel and Anne start a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & injury depiction
Military enlistment & deployment (scs)
World War I (theme)