Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Sophronia’s first year at school has certainly been rousing. First, her finishing school is training her to be a spy (won’t Mumsy be surprised!). Secondly, she gets mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and has a cheese pie thrown at her. Now, as Sophronia sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers’ quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship’s boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a school trip to London than at… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Misogyny
  • Racism
  • Classism
  • Blood depiction & blood-drinking
  • Murder mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
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The Mayan Conspiracy by Graham Brown 

The Mayan Conspiracy by Graham Brown

Former CIA-agent Hawker has been black flagged by his own government and Interpol and the State department have issued a warrant for his arrest. All Hawker wants to do is find a way back home that doesn’t involve a prison sentence or a body bag. Government operative Danielle Laidlaw is his way out. She needs a pilot and a security consultant for her mission to discover the lost Mayan city of Tulan Zuyu. In return for his services, she promises Hawker his life back… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Animal death
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Into the Real by Z Brewer

Into the Real by Z Brewer

The first Brume is a waking nightmare, overrun by literal monsters and cutthroat survivors. For Quinn, who is openly genderqueer, the only silver lining is their friendship with Lia—and the hope that there might still be a safe place somewhere else in the world. The second Brume is a prison with no bars. Forced to “sort out” their sexuality with other teens at Camp Redemption, Quinn must also figure out why presenting as female has never felt quite right… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Deadnaming
  • Misgendering
  • Conversion therapy
  • Physical child abuse
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Gun violence
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Leech by Hiron Ennes

Leech by Hiron Ennes

For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Dysphoria
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Body horror
  • Medical experimentation
  • Arson
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With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe 

With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe

Criminal profiler Sadie Bonds knows blood. Her affair with the gruesome, dark world of killers began long before she started applying her analytical skills to investigate gory crime scenes. She gets inside the killers’ heads, breaks them down, relates to them on an arcane level. She prefers it this way—because it’s safer to ally herself with the villain than the victim. At least, that’s how she’s coped ever since she was abducted and tortured as a teen… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Blood depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture
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Born, Madly by Trisha Wolfe 

Born, Madly by Trisha Wolfe

A buried past is unearthed, and Grayson Sullivan—AKA The Angel of Maine—retaliates against the system who made him, deploying psychological warfare on the woman who initially set him free. Dr. London Noble probes deep into the mind of the killer she’s fallen for, searching for answers, as a copycat killer threatens their unity. Are they partners, lovers, or enemies? One final trap will reveal all.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Blood & knife play
  • Death of a sister
  • Kidnapping
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Born, Darkly by Trisha Wolfe 

Born, Darkly by Trisha Wolfe

He challenged her sanity. She shattered his reality. They dared each other…to the brink of madness.

A dark and twisted maze awaits criminal psychologist London Noble when she falls for her patient, convicted serial killer, Grayson Pierce Sullivan. As she unravels the traps, her sanity tested with each game, she’s forced to acknowledge the true evil in the world around her.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Paedophilia & rape mentioned
  • Drugging
  • Chronic pain
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Murder
  • Graphic torture
  • Kidnapping & captivity
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A ​Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir 

A ​Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning. At his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Childbirth
  • Blood depiction
  • Murder
  • Branding
  • War themes
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The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher 

The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher

When Gerta’s friend Kay is stolen away by the mysterious Snow Queen, it’s up to Gerta to find him. Her journey will take her through a dangerous land of snow and witchcraft, accompanied only by a bandit and a talking raven. Can she win her friend’s release, or will following her heart take her to unexpected places?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Self-harm
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Cannibalism
  • Animal death
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Extasia by Claire Legrand  

Extasia by Claire Legrand

Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain–an evil which has already killed nine of her village’s men. She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Suicide
  • Cannibalism
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Branding
  • Torture
  • Gun violence mentioned
  • Knife violence
  • Fire
  • Cults
  • Animal death (dog)
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