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Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard

Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard

Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she’s returned to her mother’s imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria’s royal palace.

Thanh’s new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanh’s home. Eldris won’t take no for an answer, on either front. But the fire that burned down one palace is tempting Thanh with the possibility of making her own dangerous decisions.

Can Thanh find the freedom to shape her country’s fate—and her own?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Implicit attempted rape
Abusive relationship
Fire (theme)
Colonialism

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable.

When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.

But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & racial slurs
Gentrification & classism
Cheating
Slut-shaming
Sexual harassment and the non-consensual distribution of private photos
Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a family member
Physical assault

The Impossible Contract by KA Doore

The Impossible Contract by K.A. Doore

Thana has a huge reputation to live up to as daughter of the Serpent, who rules over Ghadid’s secret clan of assassins. Opportunity to prove herself arrives when Thana accepts her first contract on Heru, a dangerous foreign diplomat with the ability to bind a person’s soul under his control.

She may be in over her head, especially when Heru is targeted by a rival sorcerer who sends hordes of the undead to attack them both. When Heru flees, Thana has no choice than to pursue him across the sands to the Empire that intends to capture Ghadid inside its iron grip… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Slavery
Colonialism themes
Sex work shaming & slurs
Self-injury for blood magic
Graphic blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
Physical injuries & illness
Emesis
Nonconsensual branding
Murder & attempted murder (theme)
Poisoning
Knife violence
Graphic strangulation & garrotting
Severe dehydration depiction & water scarcity
Graphic fire & result loss of property
Animal murder discussed & animal death

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A Brown

For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts Malik’s younger sister, Nadia, as payment into the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom. But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic . . . requiring the beating heart of a king. And she knows just how… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Emotional & physical child abuse
Infidelity mentioned
Anxiety & panic attack (on-page, protagonist)
Depersonalisation & derealization
Hallucinations
Self-harm & self-harm ideation
Alcohol consumption
Emesis
Blood depiction
Grief & loss depiction (theme)
Death of a father & sister recounted
Death of a mother (on-page)
Murder & attempted murder and regicide
Police brutality
Whipping mentioned
Knife violence & stabbing
Kidnapping & hostage situation
Fire recounted
Colonialism themes, including refugee experiences, riots & stampede
Animal cruelty & death, including animal sacrifice