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Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Graphic blood & injury depiction including body horror and dead bodies
Death of a mother & father recounted
Death of a friend, on-page & recounted
Death of a girlfriend in a stampede recounted
Murder, mass murder & attempted murder, on-page
Tank accident
Physical assault, on-page
Gun violence, on-page
Shipwreck
Drowning discussed
Torture
Whipping mentioned
Knife violence & stabbing, on-page
Riots, on-page
Police brutality & violence, on-page
Fire & immolation
Graphic penal labour & inhumane imprisonment (theme)
Homelessness recounted
Animal death
Animal attack

The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer

The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer

Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick. But it is difficult for Riley to enjoy his new life, for he has always believed in his heart of hearts that Garrick will someday, somehow, return.

Chevie has assured Riley that Garrick was sucked into a temporal wormhole, never to emerge. The full nature of the wormhole has never been understood, however, and just as a human body will reject an unsuitable transplant, the wormhole eventually spits Garrick out. By the time Garrick makes it back to Victorian London, he has been planning his revenge on Riley for centuries. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, as the three discover when they are tossed once more into the wormhole and spill out in a Puritan village.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Persecution for witchcraft discussed
Death from a heart attack
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Needles
Death of a father mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Knife violence
Motorcycle accident recounted
Death from animal attack (bear) mentioned

The Hangman’s Revolution by Eoin Colfer

The Hangman’s Revolution by Eoin Colfer

F.B.I. agent Chevie Savano is trapped in a nightmare future. Unless she can return to 19th-century London and change the course of history, millions will die.

Luckily she has Riley the boy magician and a Victorian gangster with lovely hair to help her battle two crazed villains, who have brought the military technology of the future back in time – with potentially disastrous consequences.

The stakes are higher than the hangman’s noose and only Chevie can save the day. Assuming she can avoid being killed by a couple of psycho warrior-nuns first . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Death of a father mentioned
Death of a friend mentioned
Murder
Explosions & bombings
Gun violence
Hanging mentioned
Torture mentioned
Drowning
Death from animal attack (rat) mentioned
Animal death mentioned

The Wish List by Eoin Colfer

The Wish List by Eoin Colfer

Meg Finn is accidentally killed by her partner-in-crime during a burglary. Her last-minute act of kindness rescues her from being sent through the tunnel directly to hell. After winding up in limbo instead, the girl’s spirit returns to earth in the hope of eventually going through “the Pearlies.”

To make the heavenly cut, Meg goes to the aid of the elderly Lowrie McCall 68, a depressed down-and-out bloke who has four wishes on his list before he dies. But demon Beelzebub wants her soul, too, and he’s sent a “Soul Man” — a vicious dog-boy who murdered her — to retrieve it.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Physical child abuse
Murder
Explosion
Gun violence
Death of a mother
Animal attack

The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl & the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis’s mother is gravely ill. Unfortunately the cure, an endangered lemur, was made extinct eight years ago . . . by Artemis Fowl. Talk about awkward.

What if he could travel back in time, outwit his former self and bring the lemur home? With the right demon warlock, it might be possible.

But we all remember the young Artemis. He was, to put it mildly, a pretty terrible human being, so this won’t be easy.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Serious physical illness of a parent
Physical injury including broken bones
Death of a mother from radiation poisoning mentioned
Explosion & bombings
Kidnapping
Plane crash
Gun violence
Fire
Animal death (theme)
Animal cruelty
Animal medical experimentation
Animal stampede

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar chronicles Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that Esther’s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Graphic attempted rape (multiple)
Suicide & attempted suicide discussed
Self-harm
Depression
Death of a father

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Terminal cancer
Death of a parent
Death of a friend
Gun violence & mass shootings discussed
War themes mentioned
Poverty themes

The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn

The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn

A young woman is making a living, faking it as a cut-price psychic working at Spiritual Palms (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year old stepson Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor, built in 1893. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home and taking possession of the stepson. She has even found trickles of blood on the wall. The young woman doesn’t believe in exorcism or the supernatural, but she does see an opportunity to make a lot of money. However, when she enters the house for the first time and meets Miles, she begins to feel it too, as if the very house is watching her, waiting, biding its time….

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Emotional abuse
Suicide mentioned
Death from childbirth mentioned
Graphic emesis
Dead bodies
Cancer
Death of a father
Murder
Animal abuse mentioned

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

As the cops close in, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood depiction
Rape mentioned
Domestic violence mentioned
Cheating
Murder
Death of a parent recounted
Poisoning mentioned
Disappearance of a spouse
Animal death

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

It’s been three years since the devastating accident… three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard’s rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia’s home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future – and each other.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use (smoking)
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child recounted
Death of a brother recounted
Death of a mother & father recounted
Car accident recounted