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The Impossible Contract by KA Doore

The Impossible Contract by K.A. Doore

Thana has a huge reputation to live up to as daughter of the Serpent, who rules over Ghadid’s secret clan of assassins. Opportunity to prove herself arrives when Thana accepts her first contract on Heru, a dangerous foreign diplomat with the ability to bind a person’s soul under his control.

She may be in over her head, especially when Heru is targeted by a rival sorcerer who sends hordes of the undead to attack them both. When Heru flees, Thana has no choice than to pursue him across the sands to the Empire that intends to capture Ghadid inside its iron grip… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Slavery
Colonialism themes
Sex work shaming & slurs
Self-injury for blood magic
Graphic blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
Physical injuries & illness
Emesis
Nonconsensual branding
Murder & attempted murder (theme)
Poisoning
Knife violence
Graphic strangulation & garrotting
Severe dehydration depiction & water scarcity
Graphic fire & result loss of property
Animal murder discussed & animal death

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it’s okay — Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.

But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz’s plans come crashing down . . . until she’s reminded of her school’s scholarship for prom king and queen. There’s nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors, and humiliating public events,.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Classism
Racism
Queermisia, specifically lesbomisia & transmisia
Public outing
Anxiety & panic attacks
Emesis
Hospital visits due to medical emergency
Chronic illness (sickle cell anemia)
Death of a mother recounted

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents’ rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.

But Ben’s attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan’s friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Coming out themes (multiple scenes)
Disownment from queermisic parents
Transmisia & misgendering
Homomisia
Ableism & ableist language
Slut-shaming recounted
Suicidal ideation
Physical, emotional & verbal parental abuse
Anxiety & panic attacks, on-page
Depression & depressive episode
Body dysphoria
Alcohol consumption
Prescription drug use discussed
Pregnancy discussed
Emesis

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people…

In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.

Separated by distance – and Papi’s secrets – the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Coming out themes
Sexual harassment
Sexual assault & attempted rape of a minor, on-page
Sex trafficking & coerced sex work of a minor discussed
Cheating
Pregnancy discussed
Premature childbirth scene & resuscitation of a newborn
Emesis
Cancer mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from dengue fever recounted
Death of a father & husband (theme)
Death of a sister mentioned
Stalking
Plane crash, off-page but discussed throughout the novel
Poverty themes

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A Brown

A Song of Wraiths & Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown

For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts Malik’s younger sister, Nadia, as payment into the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.

But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic . . . requiring the beating heart of a king. And she knows just how to obtain one: by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia competition.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Racism and racial slurs
Colonialism themes
Refugee experiences
Riots and stampede
Police brutality
Emotional & physical child abuse
Cheating mentioned
Anxiety
Panic attack, described in detail on-page
Hallucinations
Depersonalisation & derealization
Self-harm & self-harm ideation
Alcohol consumption
Emesis
Blood depiction
Grief & loss depiction (theme)
Death of a father recounted
Death of a mother, on-page
Death of a sister recounted
Death in a fire recounted
Hostage situation
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
Knife violence & stabbing
Murder & attempted murder
Regicide
Whipping of feet mentioned
Animal cruelty
Animal death, including animal sacrifice

All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn’t happened yet.

Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other’s anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There’s no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It’s from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that’s about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slut-shaming
Disorder food thoughts & restrictive eating (dieting)
Internalised body shaming
Nightmares & flashbacks
Suicide, on-page
Nonconsensual drugging
Blood depiction & physical injuries, including serious injury of a loved one
Hospital
Needles
Surgery
Comas
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of both parents
Death of a brother
Death of a friend
Murder & attempted murder
Torture & psychological torture
Gun violence
Kidnapping & hostage situation
Incarceration
Fire

A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism & sexism
Threats of rape & sexual assault (on-page)
Cheating recounted
Nightmares
Suicidal ideation, attempted suicide & suicide, discussed & recounted (on-page)
Alcohol consumption
Blood and gore depiction including dead bodies & emesis
Graphic physical injuries including recounts of an amputation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from cancer (on-page)
Death of a sister & father recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Physical assault
Graphic torture (multiple scenes)
Gun violence
Knife violence & stabbing
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
Death from a fall recounted
Death from drowning recounted
War themes & military violence, including battle scenes
Attempted regicide
Poverty themes & debt collection discussed

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.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and once girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Classism & ableism
Alcoholism (secondary character)
Hallucinations
Drugging
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Involuntary medical treatment & procedures, including amputation & needles
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Graphic physical injuries & serious illness of a loved one, including burns, loss of hearing, and discussions of scars
Graphic emesis, multiple on-page
Cannibalism recounted & discussed
Graphic food and water scarcity, including mentions of death from starvation & dehydration
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend & child (on-page, multiple)
Death of a father & husband recounted
Murder & attempted murder by stabbing and strangulation
Fire & explosions, on-page & recounted
Whipping mentioned
Poisoning
Avalanche mentioned
Police brutality mentioned
Poverty
Rebellion & war themes
Graphic animal death & hunting including graphic description of skinning & butchering
Animal attack & death from animal attack, including death from a wasp attack and graphic scene of a child being eaten alive by a wolf
Attempted murder of a pet cat recounted