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Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery by Ally Carter

Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery by Ally Carter

April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne—famous billionaire and terrible cook—is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don’t know is that he’s not the only one.

When a masked figure breaks in, looking for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment, recounted & discussed (on-page)
Drugging
Blood depiction
Physical injuries including gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and a sprained ankle
Death of a mother & father recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Sword violence & stabbing
Fire, on-page & recounted
Boating accident recounted
Explosion
Home invasion
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
Disappearance & presumed death of a loved one
Experiences in orphanages, group homes, and foster care discussed including child abuse & neglect

The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton

The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton

The Tell Tale has been watching and waiting because there’s something queer about the village of Foel. Beth Griffiths has returned home to raise her daughter in the Welsh hills. They arrive to the open arms of the community, but not all is what it seems and Beth isn’t home for the reason she pretends either.

Vicious notes start appearing that reveal harsh truths about the village inhabitants, stirring up ancient past and old loves. Not even local dignitary, the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Hate crime
Outing
Cheating mentioned
Domestic abuse
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Blood depiction
Gun violence
Homelessness
Hunting

A School Frozen in Time, Volume 1 by Mizuki Tsujimura

A School Frozen in Time, Vol. 1 by Mizuki Tsujimura and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa

On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment — the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their current predicament and may even be among their group… but no one can remember who it was that took their life on that sad day. The students… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Depression
Suicide
Self harm mentioned
Blood depiction

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye.

Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best frie… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Animal abuse & torture
Animal death

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all jinn.

With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan’s oldest son to find the artif.… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Genocide
Torture
Kidnapping

This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi

This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi

To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight.

The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can’t put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom—and the world.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Attempted suicide
Blood & injury depiction
Dead bodies & body parts
Decapitation & dismemberment mentioned
Death of a father
Death of a child
Knife violence
Kidnapping
Drowning mentioned
Poverty

Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong—between Ella and Juliette—blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.

The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Human experimentation
Gun & knife violence

Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi

Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi

Born as blank as canvas in a world brimming with colour and magic, Alice’s pale skin and milk-white hair mark her as an outcast. Because, for the people of Ferenwood, colour and magic are one and the same. And since the disappearance of her beloved father, Alice is more determined than ever to prove herself and her own magical abilities.

To do so she’ll have to travel into the myth … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abuse
Parental abandonment
Death from childbirth mentioned
Minor blood & gore depiction
Amputation
Cannibalism
Loss of autonomy (mind control & powers of manipulation)
Imprisonment
Disappearance of a parent
War themes mentioned
Bullying

The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley

The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley

As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly a strange sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture… She cannot die.

Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Slavery
Human trafficking
Eugenics mentioned
Sex work mentioned
Sexual harassment
Domestic abuse
Amnesia
Suicide
Drugging
Blood & gore depiction
Involuntary medical experimentation
Hospitalisation
Cannibalism
Murder
Torture
Kidnapping
Police brutality
Fire
Poverty

Blameless by Gail Carriger

Blameless by Gail Carriger

Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London’s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.

While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Misogyny
Slut-shaming
Fatmisia & body-shaming
Classism
Racism
Cheating discussed
Disownment
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Drugging
Pregnancy (theme)
Miscarriage discussed in-depth
Forced ‘breeding’ programs discussed
Physical injuries, including graphic eyeball trauma
Blood & gore depiction, including on-page blood-drinking
Emesis
Dead bodies & body parts
Forced human medical experiments recounted
Eugenics discussed
Death of a father mentioned
Death of a girlfriend recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Knife violence
Physical assault
Kidnapping & captivity
Hostage situation