Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined and that she is quite literally not herself. In a quest to find the truth, she must travel into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her family – before it’s too late…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a sibling recounted
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Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills

Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills

For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. With her four best friends—loving, infuriating, and all she could ever ask for—she can weather any storm. But when Sophie’s beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it’s her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country singer Megan Pleasant, their Midwestern town’s only claim to fame, to come back to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival. The only problem is that Megan has very publicly sworn never to return.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide mentioned
  • Death of a sibling recounted
  • Car accident mentioned
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To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by Sarah Parker

To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by Sarah A. Parker

Nineteen years ago, I was plucked from the heart of a bloody massacre that spared nobody else. Small. Fragile. An enigma. Now ward to a powerful High Master who knows too much and says too little, I lead a simple life, never straying from the confines of an imaginary line I’ve drawn around the castle grounds. Stay within. Never leave. Out there, the monsters lurk. Inside, I’m safe … though at a cost far greater than the blood I drip into a goblet daily. Toxic, unreciprocated love for a man who’s utterly unavailable. My saviour. My protector. My almost executioner… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Arranged marriage
  • Abusive relationship
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Agoraphobia
  • Panic attacks
  • Nightmares & night terrors
  • Self-harm
  • Drug use
  • Blood and gore depiction
  • Scars
  • Dead bodies & body parts
  • Death of a sibling
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The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

When Elton Irving turned Holly Liddell into a vampire in 1987, he promised her eternal love. But thirty-four years later, Elton has left her, her hair will be crimped for the rest of immortality, and the only job she can get as a forever sixteen-year-old is the midnight shift at Taco Bell. Holly’s afterlife takes an interesting turn when she meets Rose McKay and Ida Ripley. Having also been turned and discarded by Elton—Rose in 1954, and Ida, his ex-fiancée, in 1921—they want to help her, and ask for her help in return… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Emotional abuse & gaslighting
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Body horror
  • Death of a sibling
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
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The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

Elise Beaumont is cursed. With every touch, she experiences exactly how her loved ones will die. And after her brother’s death—a death she predicted but was unable to prevent—Elise is desperate to get rid of her terrible gift, no matter the cost. Claire Montgomery also has a unique relationship with death, mostly because she’s already dead. Technically, anyway. Claire is a vampire, and she’s been assigned by the Veil to help Elise master her rare Death Oracle powers. At first, Elise is reluctant to work with a vampire, but when she predicts a teacher’s imminent murder…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a brother
  • Murder
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)
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My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder

My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder

The school year is over, and it is summer in Atlanta. The sky is blue, the sun is blazing, and the days brim with possibility. But Leah feels. . . lost. She has been this way since one terrible afternoon a year ago when everything changed. Since that day, her parents have become distant, her friends have fallen away, and Leah’s been adrift and alone. Then she meets Jasper, a girl, unlike anyone she has ever known. There’s something mysterious about Jasper, almost magical. And Jasper, Leah discovers, is also lost…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a brother from drowning
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The Secret of Nightingale Wood Lucy Strange

The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange

1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees — or thinks she sees — in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world… 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Prescription drug abuse
  • Medical experimentation mentioned
  • Forced institutionalisation
  • Death of a brother in a fire
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Demon Slayer, Volume Two by Koyoharu Gotouge

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 2: It Was You by Koyoharu Gotouge

During final selection for the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro faces a disfigured demon and uses the techniques taught by his master, Urokodaki! As Tanjiro begins to walk the path of the Demon Slayer, his search for the demon who murdered his family leads him to investigate the disappearances of young girls in a nearby town.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a mother & siblings
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Death of a grandmother mentioned
  • Axe & knife violence
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Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger

Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger

Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott, code name Honey Bee, is the War Office’s best and most decorative fixer. She’s sweet and chipper, but oddly stealthy, and surprisingly effective given the right incentives. Sir Crispin Bontwee was knighted for his military service, but instead of retiring, he secretly went to work for the War Office. Mostly he enjoys his job, except when he must safeguard the Honey Bee. Neither one is a vampire expert, but when the Nottingham Hive goes badly Goth, only Dimity can stop their darkness from… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide mentioned
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a sibling recounted
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Not All Heroes by Josephine Cameron 

Not All Heroes by Josephine Cameron

Even though her family moved across the country for a “fresh start” after her little brother’s death, eleven-year-old Zinnia Helinski still feels like she’s stuck waiting for her new life to begin. Then she spots her new neighbour, Kris, climbing down the fire escape of their apartment building. He’s wearing a black eye mask! And Spandex leggings. . . . And a blue body suit? Soon Zinnia finds herself in a secret club for kids who want to be heroes. The Reality Shifters don’t have superpowers, but they do have the power to make positive change in their neighbourhoods… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a brother
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