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The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White

The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White

Everything is as it should be in Camelot: King Arthur is expanding his kingdom’s influence with Queen Guinevere at his side. Yet every night, dreams of darkness and unknowable power plague her. Guinevere might have accepted her role, but she still cannot find a place for herself in all of it. The closer she gets to Brangien, pining for her lost love Isolde, Lancelot, fighting to prove her worth as Queen’s knight, and Arthur, everything to everyone and thus never quite enough for Guinevere–the more she realizes how empty she is. She has no sense of who she truly… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny
Coming out & lesbomisia mentioned
Persecution for witchcraft
Rape by coercion recounted & discussed
Adult-minor relationships discussed
Child abuse mentioned
Aquaphobia & related anxiety attacks
Amnesia
Alcohol consumption
Death of a sister & baby son mentioned
Exile & banishment mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Poisoning
Kidnapping recounted
Fire (multiple scenes)
Military violence mentioned & recounted
Animal death & animal attack

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia & body shaming
Racism & racial slurs
Slavery
Attempted rape
Threats of rape
Child abuse
Domestic violence
Self-harm
Death of a parent recounted
Death of a friend
Torture
Kidnapping
War themes

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why–or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.

Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed: four Hawthorne grandsons who grew up with every expectation that they would inherit billions… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Parental abandonment
Physical child abuse recounted
Abusive relationship
Emotional & physical intimate partner violence (off-page)
Cheating mentioned (chp 55)
Revenge pornography involving a minor mentioned (chp 59)
Alcohol consumption
Minor blood depiction & physical injury (chp 52-54)
Grief & loss depiction
Death due to heart attack mentioned (chp 55 & 78)
Death of a sister recounted
Death of a girlfriend recounted
Death of a grandfather, off-page (theme)
Death of a mother recounted
Attempted murder, on-page (chp 52 & 68)
Gun violence (on-page in chp 52)
Car accident (chp 68)
Homelessness mentioned

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

The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

It’s the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom. The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara’s life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara’s family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items – but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear. But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Parental abandonment & neglect
Child abuse
Physical, emotional & verbal intimate partner abuse (on-page)
Depression (side character)
Trauma-related amnesia
Attempted suicide recounted
Self-harm
Graphic blood & injury depiction
Hospital
Grief & loss depiction
Death of an infant & father recounted
Murder and attempted murder recounted
Car accident
Fire

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & racial slurs
Ableism & ableist slurs (r slur)
Classism
Conversion therapy
Graphic domestic & parental abuse
Slavery and forced labour
Graphic rape & prison rape
Paedophilia & child sexual assault
Incest
Alcoholism & substance addiction
PTSD
Depression
Suicide & self-harm
Miscarriage & infertility themes
Blood & gore depiction
Graphic physical injuries
Starvation
Nonconsensual psychiatric hospitalisation
Death of a parent
Death of a sibling
Death of an infant
Police brutality & violence
Murder & executions, including the execution of a child
Death in police custody and in prison
Graphic animal abuse
Homelessness
Poverty themes

Here Lie the Secrets by Emma Young

Here Lie the Secrets by Emma Young

Mia’s best friend Holly died when they were thirteen. But years later, Holly still hasn’t left her.

Spending the summer in New York, Mia is hoping to escape the visions of Holly that haunt her life at home. There she meets Rav, a parapsychology student, who convinces her to take part in a study into why some people see ghosts. Soon she is caught up in the investigation of Halcyon House, which is reputed to be haunted by a poltergeist. As Mia confronts her fears, what she learns about the house and herself will change her life forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Domestic abuse & violence
Child abuse
Alcoholism
Visual hallucinations
Grief depiction
Death of a friend recounted
Bullying mentioned

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

It’s 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.

An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fat shaming
Slut-shaming
Attempted rape
Domestic violence
Child abuse
Abortion and death due to a ‘backstreet’ abortion
Medical procedures
Death of a friend
Murder

All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace

As princess of the island kingdom Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her entire life training to be High Animancer — the master of souls. The rest of the realm can choose their magic, but for Amora, it’s never been a choice. To secure her place as heir to the throne, she must prove her mastery of the monarchy’s dangerous soul magic. When her demonstration goes awry, Amora is forced to flee. She strikes a deal with Bastian, a mysterious pirate: he’ll help her prove she’s fit to rule, if she’ll help him reclaim his stolen magic. But sailing the kingdom holds more wonder-and more… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Arranged marriage
Physical & emotional domestic abuse recounted (chp 29)
Cheating discussed
Attempted sexual assault recounted (chp 19)
Forced sex work recounted
Hallucinations
Suicide (on-page)
Self-harm and self-injury
Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father (on-page)
Graphic blood & gore depiction including dead bodies, cannibalism, dismemberment and emesis
Murder & attempted murder
Graphic dental torture (on-page)
Poisoning
Imprisonment
Drowning
War & rebellion themes
Animal abuse & torture (chp 29)

Extra: The author, Adalyn Grace, provided a detailed breakdown of content warnings here.

Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she catches him harassing a young hostess, she confronts him and gets fired. Liv vows revenge, but she’ll need assistance to take on the powerful chef. Unfortunately, that means turning to Braden Mack. When Liv’s blackballed from the restaurant scene, the charismatic nightclub entrepreneur offers to help expose her ex-boss, but she is suspicious of his motives. He’ll need to call in reinforcements: the Bromance Book Club.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Victim-blaming
Sexual & workplace harassment
Domestic abuse & gaslighting recounted
Murder mentioned
Stalking