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Please Ignore Vera Dietz by AS King

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Domestic violence (off-page)
Alcohol consumption & drug abuse
Death of a friend
Bullying

Everybody Sees the Ants by AS King

Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King

Lucky Linderman didn’t ask for his life. He didn’t ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn’t ask for a father who never got over it. He didn’t ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn’t ask to be the target of Nader McMillan’s relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far. But Lucky has a secret–one that helps him wade through the daily mundane torture of his life. In his dreams, Lucky escape to the war-ridden jungles of Laos, the prison his grandfather… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Prescription drug abuse
Suicide discussed
Death of a grandfather in the Vietnam War recounted
Physical assault
Graphic bullying (theme)

Grace by Victoria Scott

Grace by Victoria Scott

Nineteen-year-old Michelle has had a tough life, to say the least. Then she gets pregnant. She is convinced she would be a terrible mother but having grown up in care, she cannot bring herself to subject her child to the same fate. Amelia and her husband have dreamed of having a family for years, but have lost all hope after the worst kind of tragedy. Then they are offered the chance to adopt baby Grace, and it feels like they finally have everything they’ve ever wanted… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Sexual assault
Domestic abuse & violence
Attempted suicide
Drug abuse
Infertility
Stillbirth

Reaper’s Property by Joanna Wylde

Reaper’s Property by Joanna Wylde

Marie doesn’t need a complication like Horse. The massive, tattooed badass biker who shows up at her brother’s house one afternoon doesn’t agree. He wants Marie on his bike and in his bed. Now. But Marie just left her abusive jerk of an ex-husband and she’s not looking for a new man. Especially one like Horse. She doesn’t know his real name or where he lives. She’s ninety percent certain he’s a criminal and that the “business” he talked with her brother wasn’t website design. She needs him out of her life, which would be a snap if he wasn’t so damned sexy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape
Grey-area cheating
Domestic violence
Drug use
Murder
Torture
Captivity

Losing Streak by Kristine Wyllys

Losing Streak by Kristine Wyllys

Rosemary Young knows the Lane. It’s where she grew up, raising a brother barely younger than she was. It’s where she served drinks, wearing a gaudy uniform in a low-lit bar to support her mama. It’s where she fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Brandon Williams might’ve had a taste for gambling and been headed nowhere fast, but something about him made her almost forget every promise she ever made. These days when Rosie walks the Lane, it’s on the orders of the man who owns it. The man who owns her—Joshua King. A bet gone wrong ties her to him… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Slut-shaming
Sexual assault
Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Parent with myeloma (blood cancer)
Pregnancy from rape mentioned
Emesis
Murder
Physical assault
Arson
Poverty

Wild Ones by Kristine Wyllys

Wild Ones by Kristine Wyllys

Bri Martin likes her skirts too short, her heels too high, and trouble close at hand. So when big, brooding underground boxer Luke Turner comes into the bar where she works and starts a fight before she brings his first drink, she can’t help being intrigued. Luke is everything she never wanted and everything she can’t resist. Soon, Luke is showing up everywhere Bri is, and she can’t break free of his hold on her, nor does she want to. When her best friend turns on her, it’s Luke who is there. When Luke’s opponent comes after her to send Luke a message, it’s he who comes… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child sexual abuse, on-page
Incest (father-daughter), on-page
Child physical abuse mentioned
Intimate partner violence mentioned
Coerced sex work mentioned
Parent with alcoholism mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Overdose mentioned
Physical injuries, including broken bones & concussion
Scars
Death of a brother by suicide mentioned
Police raid
Gun violence
Mugging
Homelessness

White Ivy by Susie Yang

White Ivy by Susie Yang

Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, she is taught how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops by her immigrant grandmother. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen—and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, where her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Fatmisia & body shaming
Classism
Cheating
Dubious consent scenario*
Eating disorder
Suicidal ideation
Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Cancer
Murder
Bullying

* Context : Characters have sex while drunk.

A Light Amongst Shadows by Kelley York and Rowan Altwood

A Light Amongst Shadows by Kelley York & Rowan Altwood

James Spencer is hardly the typical “troubled youth” who ends up at Whisperwood School for Boys. Instead of hating the strict schedules and tight oversight by staff, James blossoms, quickly making friends and indulging in his love of writing, while contemplating the merits of sneaking love poems to the elusive and aloof William Esher. The rumours about William’s sexuality and opium reliance are prime gossip material amongst the third years. Rumours that only further pique James’ curiosity to uncover what William is really like beneath all that emotional armour… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Rape recounted
Depression
Drug abuse
Blood depiction
Murder, off-page
Torture
Blackmail

Black Tangled Heart by Samantha Young

Black Tangled Heart by Samantha Young

To my siblings, Jane was a friend. A pseudo-sister, the girl we grew up with. To me? She was everything. Our passion consumed us. When our world fell apart, I thought our love would be the thing that held us together. She was the love of my life. But she abandoned me when I needed her most. And I’ll never forgive her. For years I’ve been planning my revenge against the people who took everything from me. Jane won’t be an exception. I’m coming for her. She knows it. She says she wants to help me serve my version of justice on the people who hurt me. I’ll let her. She probably thinks it will save her from me. It won’t.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Child abandonment
Drug abuse
Wrongful conviction

The Fragile Ordinary by Samantha Young

The Fragile Ordinary by Samantha Young

I am Comet Caldwell. And I sort of, kind of, absolutely hate my name. People expect extraordinary things from a girl named Comet. That she’ll be effortlessly cool and light up a room the way a comet blazes across the sky.
But from the shyness that makes her book-character friends more appealing than real people to the parents whose indifference hurts more than an open wound, Comet has never wanted to be the centre of attention. She can’t wait to graduate from her high school in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the only place… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual harassment & threats of rape
Child abuse & neglect
Drug use
Overdose
Parent with cancer
Bullying