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The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The king’s scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king’s prison. The magus is interested only in the thief’s abilities.

What Gen is interested in is anyone’s guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Child abuse
Domestic violence
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Torture
Near-drowning incident
Hanging mentioned

Carmilla by Kim Turrisi

Carmilla adapted by Kim Turrisi

Newly escaped from the stifling boredom of a small town, college freshman Laura is ready to make the most of her first year at Silas University. But when her roommate, Betty, vanishes and a sarcastic, nocturnal philosophy student named Carmilla moves into Betty’s side of the room, Laura decides to play detective.

Turns out Betty isn’t the first girl to go missing, she’s just the first girl not to come back. All over campus, girls have been vanishing, and they are completely changed when (or if) they return. Even more disturbing are the strange dreams they recount: smothering darkness, and a strange pale figure haunting their rooms. Dreams that Laura is starting to have herself.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Deadnaming
Misgendering
Blood & gore depiction
Kidnapping

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Ever Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire book cover

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere… else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced… they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Amisia
Transmisia
Deadnaming & misgendering
Sexism
Dieting mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Dead bodies
Death of a parent
Death of a friend
Murder
Hostage situation
Animal death mentioned
Bullying

Repo Virtual by Corey J. White

Repo Virtual by Corey J. White

The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities — augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.

Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He’s been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Transmisia
Deadnaming & misgendering
Blackmailed outing*
Racism & racial slurs
Classism
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Graphic physical injuries & chronic pain
Death of a friend (on-page)
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Explosions
Gun violence
Strangulation
Kidnapping
Car accident
Fire
Blackmail
Flood
Cults
Animal death mentioned
Poverty themes & homelessness

*Note: the transgender protagonist is blackmailed to investigate a crime by a man with documents that would out her as a trans woman and her past as a secret agent.

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she’s transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny’s body into what she’s always thought it should be. Now there’s no hiding that she’s a girl.

It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny’s first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. Between her father’s dangerous obsession with “curing” her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he’s entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she’s in over her head… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language, including the r slur
Transmisia, internalised transmisia & transmisic slurs (theme)
Queermisia & queermisic slurs
Misgendering & deadnaming
Coming out themes & outing
Sexism & misogyny
Physical, emotional & verbal parental abuse
Suicidal ideation
Murder
Bullying
Doxxing

Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant

Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant

Cecily lost her soulmate years ago, leaving her with nothing but the clockwork heart that once beat in Caroline’s chest. They say it’s impossible to bring back the dead, yet Cecily’s resurrection spell is nearly complete and grows more powerful by the day.

But when a cowboy she barely knows is fatally injured, the only way to save him is by sacrificing an essential piece of the resurrection spell—and all possibility of seeing her lover again.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Queermisia
Transmisia & internalised transmisia
Persecution for witchcraft
Hate crimes
Misgendering and deadnaming*
Coming out themes*
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a girlfriend recounted
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction & physical injuries, including amputations & gunshot wounds
Gun violence
Bar fight & attempted murder
Hanging mentioned
Strangulation

*Context: The main character is told a transgender character’s deadname & incorrect pronouns and uses them unintentionally until he is corrected. A closeted trans character is ‘outed’ to the main character when he is undressed for medical treatment while unconcious (off-page).

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Ten years ago, Peter Pan left Neverland to grow up, leaving behind his adolescent dreams of boyhood and resigning himself to life as Wendy Darling. Growing up, however, has only made him realize how inescapable his identity as a man is.

But when he returns to Neverland, everything has changed: the Lost Boys have become men, and the war games they once played are now real and deadly. Even more shocking is the attraction Peter never knew he could feel for his old rival, Captain Hook—and the realization that he no longer knows which of them is the real villain.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Transmisia
Deadnaming & misgendering
Conversion therapy mentioned
Suicidal ideation briefly recounted
Blood & mild gore depiction, and physical injury
Murder

All That Entails by EM Hamill

All That Entails by E.M. Hamill

A gender-fluid prince finds an unexpected ally in an arranged marriage with a transgender man.

Prince Darian is willing to give up his penchant for gowns when he must wed for the sake of the kingdom. However, his intended bride has a secret of their own. A marriage of convenience may bring something neither expected—acceptance, and all that entails.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Transmisia
Misgendering & deadnaming
Arranged marriage
Domestic abuse
Child abuse

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.

However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Transmisia
Deadnaming & misgendering
Gender dysphoria
Coming out themes
Parental abandonment recounted
Disownment and child homelessness
Blood depiction & use of blood for magic and in rituals
Dead bodies
Serious injury of a loved one
Hospital (brief scene)
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father & mother recounted
Disappearance of a loved one
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence recounted
Police racial discrimination mentioned
Car accident mentioned
Smoking & alcohol consumption mentioned
Animal blood used for magic and in rituals

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Queerphobia & mentions of disownment from queerphobic parents
Transphobia, internalised transphobia, misgendering & deadnaming
Biphobia & internalised biphobia
Coming out themes
Racism & racist microaggressions
Parental abandonment
Emotional parental & domestic abuse mentioned
Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
Top surgery recounted & Hormone Replacement Therapy
Needles & injections (on-page)
Scars
Bullying
Cyberbullying, cyberharassment, catfishing & doxxing