Tag Archives: Death of a Sibling

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of death of a sibling.

See also Death of a sister, Death of a brother, and Grief & loss depiction.

Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha

The United States went belly up 45 years ago when our power grid was wiped out. Too few live in well-protected isolation while the rest of us scrape by on the margins. The only thing that matters is survival. By any means. At any cost. Nina is an information broker with a mission: to bring hope to the darkest corners of Atlanta. She and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to help those in need. But altruism doesn’t pay the bills—raiding vaults and collecting sensitive data is where the real money is. Knox is a bitter, battle-weary supersoldier who leads the Silver Devils… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Medical experimentation recounted
  • Seizures
  • Death of a sister recounted
  • Death of a friend recounted
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Physical assault (cage fighting, attempted mugging)
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Poverty themes

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore—she just wrote the world’s first comprehensive of encylopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Folk on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival, Wendell Bambleby. Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, and in search of a door back to his realm. So despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and danger… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Physical injury including amputation of a finger
  • Death of a sibling recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Poisoning
  • Animal death (horse)
  • Animal injury (dog)

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Infidelity
  • Attempted suicide
  • Miscarriage
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Graphic blood, gore & injury depiction
  • Medical procedures
  • Death of a brother
  • Gun violence
  • Explosions & bombings
  • Military violence & Vietnam War (theme) including mentions of chemical gassing

The Empress of Time by Kylie Lee Baker

Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami Ren Scarborough is no longer the girl who was chased out of England—she is the Goddess of Death ruling Japan’s underworld. But her problems have never been greater. Her Shinigami see her as a foreigner on the throne. Her brother, Neven, is gone, lost in the deep darkness. And her fiancé, Hiro, has been killed by her own hand. Then Ren receives the most troubling news yet—Reapers have been spotted in Japan, and it’s only a matter of time before Ivy, now Britain’s Death Goddess, comes to claim her revenge. Ren’s last hope is to appeal to the god of storms and seas, who can turn the tides to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Cannibalism
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a mother mentioned
  • Death of a fiancé by stabbing mentioned
  • Death of a brother
  • Murder
  • Torture

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party–or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk.

So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Smoking mentioned
  • Death during childbirth mentioned
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Emesis
  • Self-amputation of finger
  • Decapitation
  • Death of a sibling recounted
  • Murder
  • Arrow violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal abuse recounted
  • Animal death (bird, rabbit, sheep)

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow’s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.

Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too–a murder of crows stalks her every move… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism discussed
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a sibling
  • Drowning
  • Animal death (birds)

The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson

The seventeen-year-old sorcerer-queen will travel into the unknown realm of the enemy to win back her true love, save her country, and uncover the final secrets of her destiny. Elisa is a fugitive in her own country. Her enemies have stolen the man she loves in order to lure her to the gate of darkness. As she and her daring companions take one last quest into unknown enemy territory to save Hector, Elisa will face hardships she’s never imagined. And she will discover secrets about herself and her world that could change the course of history. She must rise up as champion – a champion to those who have hated her most.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Physical injury
  • Death of a sibling
  • Torture
  • War themes
  • Animal death

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in ’80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Antiziganism
  • Suicide
  • HIV/AIDs
  • Disordered eating
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a sibling
  • Gun violence

Powerless by Elsie Silver

Two childhood friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. That’s all this was supposed to be. After all, I’ve been living in the friend zone for years now. But hockey heartthrob Jasper Gervais isn’t looking at me like a friend anymore. And he isn’t touching me like one either. To his fans, he’s the handsome, talented athlete on TV. But to me he’s still the lost boy with sad eyes and a heart of gold. The man I’ve loved in secret for years. So when my life falls apart on my wedding day, it only makes sense that he’s the one to swoop in and save me. And when his world comes crashing down around him… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Cheating recounted
  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Suicidal ideation mentioned
  • Death of a sister recounted

* Context : The heroine’s ex-fiancé cheated on her in the past.

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young black woman working in an old boys’ club. Her career has stalled out, she’s overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she’s given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes. Yes, even though she secretly admires the work Thomas is… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Death of a sibling recounted
  • Murder
  • Home invasion