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Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run – if he could even walk without a stick.

Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem – he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Slut-shaming
Slavery
Attempted rape
Suicide
Self-harm
Chronic pain
Cannibalism
Torture

Necropolis by Jordan Hawk

Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established. Until, that is, a man who seems as much animal as human tries to murder Whyborne in the museum.

Amidst the ancient ruins of the pharaohs, they must join Christine and face betrayal, murder, and a legendary sorceress risen from the dead. In the forge of the desert heat, the trio will either face their fears and stand together—or shatter the bonds between them forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Ableism
Misogyny
Homomisia
Nonconsensual kiss
Domestic abuse
Parent with alcoholism
Self-harm
Cannibalism
Murder
Physical assault
Kidnapping
Animal death

Eater of Lives by Jordan Hawk

Eater of Lives by Jordan L. Hawk

When a supernatural killer is implicated in a string of cannibalistic murders, federal exorcist John Starkweather must track the demon down with the help of his live-in lover, Caleb Jansen. Caleb is possessed by Gray, a vampire spirit who is a natural demon hunter.

Caleb’s desire to find the killer is tempered by the knowledge his own time is running out. If John can’t successfully figure out how to exorcise Gray before forty days are up, the possession becomes permanent.

When John’s ex shows up, looking for a place to stay while visiting the city on business, tensions mount even higher. Lines are drawn and Caleb learns some decisions, once made, can never be changed.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Eating disorder
Cannibalism, on-page

King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood…

The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Cannibalism
Death of a child
Torture

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexual assault
Estrangement
Grey-area cheating
Childbirth
Dead bodies & body parts
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries & wounds
Body horror
Cannibalism (theme)
Dismemberment
Involuntary pregnancy
Infertility themes
Death of a child
Death of a parent
Imprisonment
Torture
Animal cruelty & abuse

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slavery & sex slavery
Misogyny
Slut shaming
Rape
Suicide
Body horror
Cannibalism mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a father in a hunting accident recounted
Murder of a mother by poisoning recounted
Torture
Immolation

Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks

Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks

Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin’s life. The Godking’s successful coup has left Kylar’s master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession.

But when he learns that Logan might actually be alive and in hiding, Kylar is faced with an agonizing choice: will he give up the way of shadows forever and live in peace with his new family, or will he risk everything by taking on the ultimate hit?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexism
Rape & attempted rape
Suicide
Self-harm
Blood depiction
Cannibalism
Murder
Torture
Kidnapping
Animal death
War themes

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d’If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s, Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering and retribution.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Period-typical racial slurs & antiziganism (g slur)
Slavery
Rape
Domestic abuse
Alcoholism
Miscarriage
Death by starvation
Cannibalism mentioned
Death of a child & attempted infanticide
Torture
Wrongful imprisonment

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.

Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki’s family are increasing, her friends wonder why she’s still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki’s childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Acemisia
Sexual assault
Rape of a child
Child abuse
Sexual assault
Incest
Mental illness
Blood
Death
Murder
Cannibalism

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the Wisconsin town of French Landing, ten-year-old Ty Marshall is distracted by a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. Then it calls his name. Fascinated, Ty gets off his bike for a closer look: and as he does so, he is grabbed by an unseen assailant and dragged through the hedge. Is Ty destined to become the fourth victim of the Fisherman, the serial killer who is stalking this sleepy town? If so, only ex-detective Jack Sawyer, who left LA precisely to avoid such madness, may be able to save him. For nightmares and visions have been visiting Jack lately. It seems that the doomed place he knows as ‘the Territories’ may be reaching out for him once more …

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cannibalism
Murder
Kidnapping of children