Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy’s glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for Daisy’s birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing Uncle Felix. But it soon becomes clear that this party isn’t really about Daisy at all. Naturally, Daisy is furious. Then one of their party falls seriously, mysteriously ill—and everything points to poison. With wild storms preventing anyone from leaving, or the police from arriving, Fallingford suddenly feels like a dangerous place to be. Not… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racist language
  • Sexism
  • Classism
  • Ableism
  • Alcohol consumption mentioned
  • Dead bodies discussed
  • Emesis
  • Death of a father from suicide mentioned
  • Murder by arsenic poisoning, on-page
  • Floods
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The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

In the opulent world of Orléans, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle’s powers can make them beautiful. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle – the one chosen by the queen to tend to the royal family. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be. Behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets and Camellia soon learns that her powers may be far greater – and far darker – than she ever imagined. When the queen asks Camellia to break the rules… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Classism
  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Misgendering
  • Sexual assault
  • Self-harm
  • Drugging
  • Medical experimentation
  • Emesis
  • Coma
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a mother
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Poisoning
  • Imprisonment
  • Animal death
  • Animal cruelty
  • Bullying
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Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Liz Buxbaum has always known that Wes Bennett was not boyfriend material. You would think that her next-door neighbour would be a prince candidate for her romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only proven himself to be a pain in the butt, ever since they were little. Wes was the kid who put a frog in her Barbie Dreamhouse, the monster who hid a lawn gnome’s severed head in her little homemade neighbourhood book exchange. Flash forward ten years from the Great Gnome Decapitation. It’s Liz’s senior year… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Smoking
  • Emesis
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother in a car accident mentioned
  • Bullying
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The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige

The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige

Kappa Rho Nu isn’t your average sorority. Their parties are notorious. Their fundraisers are known for being Westerly College’s most elaborate affairs. But beneath the veil of Greek life and prestige, the sisters of Kappu Rho Nu share a secret: they’re a coven of witches. Kappa Rho Nu isn’t your average sorority. Their parties are notorious. Their fundraisers are known being Westerly College’s most elaborate affairs. But beneath the veil of Greek life and prestige, the sisters of Kappu Rho Nu share a secret: they’re a coven of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Queermisia
  • Emesis
  • Bullying
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Starcrossed by Barbara Dee

Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee

Mattie, a star student and passionate reader, is delighted when her English teacher announces the eighth grade will be staging Romeo and Juliet. And she is even more excited when, after a series of events, she finds herself playing Romeo, opposite Gemma Braithwaite’s Juliet. Gemma, the new girl at school, is brilliant, pretty, outgoing—and if all that wasn’t enough: British. As the cast prepares for opening night, Mattie finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Gemma and confused, since, just days before, she had found herself crushing on a boy named Elijah… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Queerphobia
  • Emesis
  • Bullying

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

For Cassandra Leung, bossing around sea monsters is just the family business. She’s been a Reckoner trainer-in-training ever since she could walk, raising the genetically-engineered beasts to defend ships as they cross the pirate-infested NeoPacific. But when the pirate queen Santa Elena swoops in on Cas’s first solo mission and snatches her from the bloodstained decks, Cas’s dream of being a full-time trainer seems dead in the water. There’s no time to mourn. Waiting for her on the pirate ship is an unhatched Reckoner… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slavery mentioned
  • Suicide, attempted suicide & suicidal ideation
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Graphic animal death & cruelty

And a Happy New Year by Holly Bourne

… And a Happy New Year? by Holly Bourne

Evie, Amber and Lottie are having a new year party to remember. For the first time since leaving college, all three girls are back together. It’s time for fun and flirting, snogs and shots. (And not tears or tantrums or terrible secrets) Because everything’s going great for these girls – Spinster Club for ever! Right?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Emesis
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Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

When they were kids, Fassen’s fighter spaceship crash-landed on a planet that Lu’s survey force was exploring. It was a forbidden meeting between a kid from a war-focused resistance movement and a kid whose community and planet are dedicated to peace and secrecy. Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems. But their friendship keeps them in each other’s orbit as they grow up. They stay in contact in secret as their communities are increasingly threatened by the omnipresent, ever-expanding empire. As the empire begins a new attack against… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Death of a parent, off-page
  • Gun violence
  • Car accident
  • War themes & colonialization
  • Animal death
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Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia Manansala

Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala

Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can’t bring herself to open her new cafe after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt’s Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie’s Kitchen. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favourite season, has just started. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Sexism
  • Coming out scene
  • Anxiety & panic attacks, on-page
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Dead body
  • Emesis
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Murder
  • Hostage situation
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Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

The dead of Loraille do not rest. Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who trade whispers about her scarred hands and troubled past. The dead of Loraille do not rest, Artemisia defends it by awakening an ancient spirit bound to a saint’s relic. It is a revenant, a malevolent… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Child abuse & neglect recounted
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Self-harm for magic
  • Drugging
  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Scars
  • Murder
  • Fire
  • Loss of autonomy (possession)
  • Animal death & abuse mentioned
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