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The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani

The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani

Children have been disappearing from across Menaiya for longer than Amraeya ni Ansarim can remember. When her friend’s sister is snatched, Rae knows she can’t look away any longer – even if that means seeking answers from the royal court, where her country upbringing and clubfoot will only invite ridicule. Yet the court holds its share of surprises. There she discovers an ally in the foreign princess, who recruits her as an attendant. Armed with the princess’s support, Rae seeks answers in the dark city streets, finding unexpected help in a rough-around-the-edges street thief with secrets of his own. But treachery… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Ableism
  • Human trafficking, off-page
  • Sexual assault
  • Physical & emotional child abuse
  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

Sutter Keely. He’s the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ ll get everyone in your parents’ pool. Okay, so he’s not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men’s shirts for a living. But there are plenty of ladies in town, and with the help of Dean Martin and Seagram’s V.O., life’s pretty fabuloso, actually. Until the morning he wakes up on a random front lawn, and he meets Aimee. Aimee’s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help, and it’s up to the Sutterman to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship*
  • Alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Recreational drug use mentioned
  • Physical injuries (broken arm)
  • Emesis
  • Car accident

* Context : Sexual relationship between a fourteen-year-old and a twenty-year-old.

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Weapon UwU Volume One by SJ Whitby

Weapon UwU Vol 1: Godkillers by S.J. Whitby

Weapon UwU – who’d expect us to be a team of deadly mutant assassins with a name like that? The Team: a trans boy ready for his glow-up into a leading man, an undead sweetheart with a bellyful of acid, a furious firebreathing girl, a hive mind of very polite spiders, an over-it aroace woman who knows how scared you are of her, and a group of increasingly unhinged clones. The Misson: To cross into a parallel universe and kill a mutant as powerful as a god, then clean up any mess. The Complications: Okay so yikes this has spiralled out of control and now there may be some… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood depiction
  • Cannibalism
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Drowning
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)
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Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher

Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters. When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be pitched headlong into each other’s quests, facing off against enemies both living and dead. But Clara has a secret that could jeopardize the growing trust between them, a secret that will lead them to the gladiatorial pits of a corrupt city, and beyond…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Nightmare
  • Self-sacrifice
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Emesis
  • Decapitation
  • Murder
  • Arson, off-page
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Bryony and Roses by T Kingfisher

Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher

Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. Their merchant father died trying to reclaim his fortune and left them to eke out a living in a village far from their home in the city. But when Bryony is caught in a snowstorm and takes refuge in an abandoned manor, she stumbles into a house full of dark enchantments. Is the Beast that lives there her captor, or a fellow prisoner? Is the house her enemy or her ally? And why are roses blooming out of season in the courtyard? Armed only with gardening shears and her wits, Bryony must untangle the secrets of the house before she—or the Beast—are swallowed by them…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Nightmares mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Emesis
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Building collapse
  • Blizzard
  • Animal death recounted
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Radiance by Grace Draven

Radiance by Grace Draven

Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Forced arranged marriage
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Emesis
  • Graphic physical injuries, including eye trauma
  • Field surgery
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Dead bodies & body parts
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a baby sister recounted
  • Death of a brother mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Infanticide recounted (graphic)
  • Torture, off-page
  • Knife violence
  • Poisoning
  • Military violence
  • Animal attack
  • Animal death (dog) & minor butchery scenes
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The Secret Runners of New York by Matthew Reilly

The Secret Runners of New York by Matthew Reilly

When Skye Rogers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this does not stop the young elite of New York from partying without a care. And then suddenly Skye is invited to join an exclusive gang known as the Secret Runners of New York. But this is no ordinary clique – they have access to an underground portal that can transport them into the future. And what Skye discovers in the future is horrifying: the rumours about the coming apocalypse are true. As society crumbles and Skye and Red race to figure out how… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Antisemitism
  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Slut shaming
  • Homomisia
  • Suicide
  • Self harm
  • Drug use
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Emesis
  • Drowning
  • Bullying
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The Violent Season by Sara Walters

The Violent Season by Sara Walters

Every November, the people in Wolf Ridge are overwhelmed with a hunger for violence–at least that’s the town rumour. Last fall Wyatt Green’s mother was brutally murdered, convincing Wyatt that this yearning isn’t a morbid urban legend. but rather a palpable force infecting her neighbours. This year, Wyatt fears the call of violence has spread to her best friend Cash–who also happens to be the guy she can’t stop wanting no matter how much he hurts her. At the same time, she’s drawn to Cash’s nemesis Porter, now that they’re partners on an ambitious project for lit class. When Wyatt pulls away… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape, on-page
  • Suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Smoking & recreational drug use, on-page
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood depiction
  • Dead bodies
  • Emesis mentioned
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Death of a mother from murder recounted
  • Infanticide by drowning mentioned
  • Murder in an armed robbery mentioned
  • Car accident mentioned
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The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumours surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, scoffs… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Colourism
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Arson

The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne

The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne

Engagement season is in the air. Eighteen-year-old Princess Leonie “Leo” Kolburg, heir to a faded European spaceship, only has one thing on her mind: which lucky bachelor can save her family from financial ruin? But when Leo’s childhood friend and first love Elliot returns as the captain of a successful whiskey ship, everything changes. Elliot was the one that got away, the boy Leo’s family deemed to be unsuitable for marriage. Now, he’s the biggest catch of the season and he seems determined to make Leo’s life miserable. But old habits die hard, and as Leo navigates… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Sexism
  • Emesis mentioned
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Drowning