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Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera’s rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her.

When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited – not in love, but in a tentative alliance against their common enemy. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. And, perhaps, for themselves.

But with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Graphic sexual assault
Rape mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Dead bodies & body parts
Physical injuries
Alcohol consumption
Murder & attempted murder
Imprisonment
War themes
Cult

Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.

This is not that world.

Art student and monster’s apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexual assault
Attempted rape
Nightmares
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Dead bodies & body parts
Physical injuries
Grief & loss depiction
Murder & attempted murder
Imprisonment
War themes

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe & Jessica Spotswood

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe & Jessica Spotswood

Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe book cover

A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era.

From good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse, feminist authors. The collective strength of women working together—magically or mundanely–has long frightened society, to the point that women’s rights are challenged, legislated against, and denied all over the world. Toil & Trouble delves deep into the truly diverse mythology of witchcraft from many cultures and feminist points of view, to create modern and unique tales of witchery that have yet to be explored.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Rape
Sexual assault
Abusive relationship
Substance addiction
Panic attacks
Drug use recounted
Alcohol consumption recounted
Childbirth
Dead bodies
Hospitalisation recounted
Death of an aunt
Death of a parent
Death of a friend
Fire
Bullying

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem—all the stories are fake. What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans readers across the globe.

When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah’s world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn’t have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah’s life, and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. But when Noah’s feelings grow beyond their staged romance, he realizes that dating in real life isn’t quite the same as finding love on the page.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism mentioned
Transmisia & transmisogyny mentioned
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Attempted suicide recounted
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Emesis
Bullying mentioned
Cyberharassment

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas

In Samsboro, Kentucky, Kalyn Spence’s name is inseparable from the brutal murder her father committed when he was a teenager. Forced to return to town, Kalyn must attend school under a pseudonym . . . or face the lingering anger of Samsboro’s citizens, who refuse to forget the crime.

Gus Peake has never had the luxury of redefining himself. A Samsboro native, he’s either known as the “disabled kid” because of his cerebral palsy, or as the kid whose dad was murdered. Gus just wants to be known as himself.

When Gus meets Kalyn, her frankness is refreshing, and they form a deep friendship. Until their families’ pasts emerge. And when the accepted version of the truth is questioned, Kalyn and Gus are caught in the center of a national uproar. Can they break free from a legacy of inherited lies and chart their own paths forward?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist slurs (r slur)
Classism
Slut-shaming
Queermisia (f & d slur)
Transmisia
Conversion therapy
Child abuse
Recreational drug use
Descriptions of dead bodies
Murder
Incarceration of a parent

Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser

Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser

Caroline Oresteia is destined for the river. For generations, her family has been called by the river god, who has guided their wherries on countless voyages throughout the Riverlands. At seventeen, Caro has spent years listening to the water, ready to meet her fate. But the river god hasn’t spoken her name yet—and if he hasn’t by now, there’s a chance he never will.

Caro decides to take her future into her own hands when her father is arrested for refusing to transport a mysterious crate. By agreeing to deliver it in exchange for his release, Caro finds herself caught in a web of politics and lies, with dangerous pirates after the cargo—an arrogant courier with a secret—and without the river god to help her. With so much at stake, Caro must choose between the life she always wanted and the one she never could have imagined for herself.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Classism
Slut-shaming
Attempted sexual assault (nonconsensual kiss, on-page & discussed)
Child abuse recounted
Arranged & nonconsensual marriages discussed
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
Graphic physical injuries
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a brother
Death of a mother & father (off-page)
Murder & attempted murder
Torture (off-page)
Gun violence
Knife violence & stabbing
Fire
Drowning
Shipwreck
Kidnapping & captivity
War themes, including regicide, rebellion, coup & colonialism

The Woods, Vol. 2: The Swarm by James Tynion IV

The Woods, Vol. 2: The Swarm by James Tynion IV & illustrated by Michael Dialynas

On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace. Countless light years away, far outside the bounds of the charted universe, 513 people find themselves in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Where are they? Why are they there?

Catch a glimpse of Bay Point Preparatory High School before the fateful events of October 16, 2013 in this new story arc. On opening night of the school’s rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the lives of the students and faculty crossed paths in an almost premonitory way, seeding the various horrors to come.

Collects The Woods #5-8

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Coming out themes
Parental abuse
Anxiety
Recreational drug use (smoking)
Blood & gore depiction
Dead bodies
Physical injuries
Knife violence
Strangulation
Kidnapping & hostage situation
Animal attack
Bullying

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Intimate partner violence recounted
Suicide & attempted suicide discussed
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction, including physical injuries
Dead bodies
Terminal cancer recounted
Hospital mentioned
Death of a husband recounted
Murder
Gun violence
Mind control & loss of autonomy (theme)
Animal attack

Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd

Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd

As the UK’s top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead. When death is sudden or unexplained, it falls to Shepherd to establish the cause. Each post-mortem is a detective story in its own right – and Shepherd has performed over 23,000 of them. Through his skill, dedication and insight, Dr Shepherd solves the puzzle to answer our most pressing question: how did this person die?

From serial killer to natural disaster, ‘perfect murder’ to freak accident, Shepherd takes nothing for granted in pursuit of truth. And while he’s been involved in some of the most high-profile cases of recent times, it’s often the less well known encounters that prove the most perplexing, intriguing and even bizarre. In or out of the public eye, his evidence has put killers behind bars, freed the innocent and turned open-and-shut cases on their heads.

But a life in death, bearing witness to some of humanity’s darkest corners, exacts a price and Shepherd doesn’t flinch from counting the cost to him and his family.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Graphic descriptions of autopsies
Graphic descriptions of dead bodies
Death of a parent
Death of a child
Murder
Knife violence and stabbing
Car accidents
Terrorist attacks
Deaths in custody

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableist language
Sexual harassment
Parental abandonment
Suicide
Suicide attempt
Gore depiction
Dead bodies
Death, central theme
Death of a family member
Murder
Mass death/murder
Explosions
Torture