Death from a Fall – Page 2 – Trigger Warning Database

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng

After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie. The two were once inseparable, but that was then—before the tragedy and heartache they left in their wake. In the here and now, Sunny is surprised to discover that Candie is attending a new K-pop workshop in her hometown. Candie might be there chasing stardom, but Sunny can’t resist the chance to join her and finally confront their traumatic history. Because she still can’t figure out what happened that horrible night when Mina… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Self-harm
Suicide from a fall
Blood & gore depiction
Graphic torture including dental trauma, on-page

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Cheating
Suicide by hanging
Overdose
Abortion mentioned
Childbirth
Teenage accidental pregnancy
Blood depiction
Terminal illness
Death of an infant discussed
Death of parents recounted
Death of a sister recounted
Death from a fall recounted
Death of a father
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence

The WitchSlayer by Opal Reyne

When Amalia’s cat brought home a strange flying lizard during a terrible storm, she had no idea that it was a Dragon. Or that he would save her from burning at the stake, only to imprison her in his lair when she saw his human face. Now she is stuck in this cave with a moody, hot-tempered, and arrogant warrior – one who has killed her kind by the dozens. She expected to feel trapped, but he somehow makes her feel unbelievably… safe. Rurik’s only goal is to kill the Dark Witch, Strolguil the Vast. He never expected to find himself in a White Witch’s home in need of healing, or that… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Persecution for witchraft including burning at the stake, drowning and falling off a cliff
Sexual assault, on-page

Fire and Ice by Shannon Hale

Strange things are happening at the frozen edge of the world. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have crisscrossed Erdas in their quest to stop the ruthless Conquerors. Only the four of them, supported by the gifts of their legendary spirit animals, have the power to defeat an evil takeover. While chasing down a lead in the cold north, the heroes arrive at a quiet village where not everything is as it seems. Rooting the truth out of this deceptively beautiful place won’t be easy – and the team is already out of time. The Conquerors are right behind them.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Grandparent with alcoholism mentioned
Physical injury & illness including frostbite
Death of a father recounted
Death from a fall
Knife, sword and arrow violence
Fire
Animal attack
Animal death & hunting (seal)

The Night Olivia Fell by Christina McDonald

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Abi Knight is startled awake in the middle of the night to a ringing phone and devastating news – her teenage daughter, Olivia, has been in a terrible accident. Abi is told that Olivia slipped and fell from a bridge into the icy water below, and now she lies silent, dependent on life support. But then Abi sees the angry bruises around Olivia’s wrists and learns that her sensible daughter is in fact three months pregnant . . . Would you believe it if they told you it was an accident?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault of a minor
Teen pregnancy
Death from a fall
Daughter on life support

*Context : The protagonist’s pregnant teenage daughter fell off a bridge after being assaulted. She is on life support until she is able to deliver the baby or the baby dies.

The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna

It’s been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered who she really is… but war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun. For there is a dark force growing in Otera—a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. And with her own gifts changing, Deka must discover if she holds the key to saving Otera… or if she might be its greatest threat.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Sex work-shaming
Parental abuse mentioned
Panic attacks
Body horror & gore depiction including dead bodies
Murder
Grief depiction
Death of a friend
Death of a father
Torture
Immolation (burning alive) & fire mentioned
Hanging mentioned
Drowning mentioned
Death from falling discussed
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

Skandar and the Phantom Rider by AF Steadman

The Island shall have its revenge. Skandar Smith has achieved his dream to train as a unicorn rider. But as Skandar and his friends enter their second year at the Eyrie, a new threat arises. Immortal wild unicorns are somehow being killed, a prophecy warns of terrible danger, and elemental destruction begins to ravage the Island. Meanwhile, Skandar’s sister, Kenna, longs to join him – and Skandar is determined to help her, no matter what. As the storm gathers, can Skandar discover how to stop the Island tearing itself apart – before it’s too late for them all?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Hate, Discrimination & Oppression

Sex & Sexual Violence

Abuse & Relationships

Mental Health & Suicide

Alcohol & Drugs

Pregnancy & Childbirth

Medical, Gore & Injury

Mentions of a child who is comatose for three weeks after falling from a cliff

Death & Loss

Violence & Crime

Battle/fight scenes involving fire and weapons
Loss of autonomy (possession)

War & Genocide

Natural Disasters

Earthquakes
Floods
Tornadoes & lightning storms

Animal Death & Cruelty

Animal injury
Animal death & cruelty
- A unicorn is found dead
- Animals are imprisoned and forced to compete in fighting rings where some die.

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani’s plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously dumped days before winter break. It could be going better. It could be going better. Then they’re snowed in together on Christmas Eve. As things start to feel more serious, though, Shani’s hurt over her ex-girlfriend’s rejection comes rushing… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Antisemitism
Sexual assault recounted
Alcohol consumption
Hospitalisation of an elderly relative for a fall

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher

My name’s Griz. My childhood wasn’t like yours. I’ve never had friends, and in my whole life I’ve not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs. Then the thief came. There may be no law left except what you make of it. But if you steal my dog, you can at least expect me to come after you. Because if we aren’t loyal to the things we love, what’s the point?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Forced sex work & sexual assault of a minor, off-page
Forced pregnancy of a child mentioned
Miscarriage
Physical injury
Emesis
Death of a sister from a fall recounted
Animal death

Wild Sky by Zaya Feli

Wild Sky by Zaya Feli

Tauran Darrica has been retired from the Valreus Sky Guard for four years following the Battle of the Broken Wings that resulted in the death of his dragon. Now, all Tauran wants to do is spend his days forgetting the past and gambling his way to an unsteady income. So when his old general from the Sky Guard hunts Tauran down to request his help with staving off the increasingly aggressive wild dragon population, Tauran refuses. But a fire ruins his rented room and leaves him without a place to stay, and Tauran finds himself on the road to Valreus, after all. Tauran is determined to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Substance addiction
Attempted suicide mentioned
Medical abuse*
Physical injury & illness, including fainting episodes & broken legs
Death from a fall mentioned
Arson mentioned
Animal death mentioned (dragon)
Homelessness mentioned

* Context : A character is intentionally given addictive drugs under the guise of another non-addictive kind of medication.