Tag Archives: Fire & Arson

If I Were a Weapon by Skye Kilaen

When dying alien ships materialized across the Earth, their nanite infection knocked Deneve Wilder out cold. She woke up with the ability to see the future. Determined to keep anyone from using her visions for evil, she took to the road. Giving up everything was a small price to pay for freedom.

The ship that hit Jolie Betancourt’s town gave her the power to set things on fire. It was safer to start over in a new city. Then one terrible mistake demonstrated far too clearly that for her, solitude is safer. For everyone… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
  • Building fire
  • Police & military violence
  • Car accident, off-page
  • Homelessness

Little Taste of Need by Clio Evans

Creatures of all kinds go to the Barista to find love, including the sexy Naga princess Naomi.

Naomi wants someone to let her treat them like royalty, someone she can mesmerize.

The Barista introduces Naomi to Ella— a human that is very new to the world of fangs and claws but excited to meet her very own monster… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Arson mentioned
  • Flogging (consensual)
  • Kidnapping

The WitchSlayer by Opal Reyne

When Amalia’s cat brought home a strange flying lizard during a terrible storm, she had no idea that it was a Dragon. Or that he would save her from burning at the stake, only to imprison her in his lair when she saw his human face. Now she is stuck in this cave with a moody, hot-tempered, and arrogant warrior – one who has killed her kind by the dozens. She expected to feel trapped, but he somehow makes her feel unbelievably… safe. Rurik’s only goal is to kill the Dark Witch, Strolguil the Vast. He never expected to find himself in a White Witch’s home in need of healing, or that… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Persecution for witchraft including burning at the stake, drowning and falling off a cliff
  • Sexual assault, on-page

Fire and Ice by Shannon Hale

Strange things are happening at the frozen edge of the world. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have crisscrossed Erdas in their quest to stop the ruthless Conquerors. Only the four of them, supported by the gifts of their legendary spirit animals, have the power to defeat an evil takeover. While chasing down a lead in the cold north, the heroes arrive at a quiet village where not everything is as it seems. Rooting the truth out of this deceptively beautiful place won’t be easy – and the team is already out of time. The Conquerors are right behind them.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Grandparent with alcoholism mentioned
  • Physical injury & illness including frostbite
  • Death of a father recounted
  • Death from a fall
  • Knife, sword and arrow violence
  • Fire
  • Animal attack
  • Animal death & hunting (seal)

This Pact Is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi

The summer before college Luca Piccone returns to Copper Cove, the idyllic campsite he and his closest friends have visited every year since they were kids. To Luca, Copper Cove is like the setting of the fantasy movies he loves, a sanctuary, protected from the dangers of the outside world, where nothing goes wrong and everything stays the same. But this year things are changing. Desperate to make this summer the best one yet, Luca tries to ignore the freshly torn rifts within his tight friend group, the pangs of unrequited love, the anxiety attacks he thought he’d left back at school, and the shadows at the edge of the forest… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Forced outing, recounted & off-page
  • Panic attacks
  • Suicide
  • Murder
  • Fire

The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 by Nagabe

Shiva’s aunt has come to the Outside to bring her home, with several soldiers in tow. Alarmed at this show of force, Teacher tries to protect Shiva, but to no avail. Meanwhile, chaos threatens to engulf the small hamlet on the Inside. Where does Shiva truly belong?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Mass murder
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture, implied
  • Arrow violence
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Fire

Wish You Weren’t Here by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

The Rook family run a little business: ghost hunting. And things has picked up recently. Something’s wrong. It’s been getting noticeably worse since, ooh, 2016? Bad spirits are abroad, and right now they’re particularly around Coldbay Island, which isn’t even abroad, it’s only 20 miles from Skegness. The Rooks’ ‘quick call out’ to the island picks loose a thread that begins to unravel the whole place, and the world beyond. Is this the apocalypse? This might be the apocalypse. Who knew it would kick off in an off-season seaside resort off the Lincolnshire coast? I’ll tell you who knew… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Miscarriage
  • Immolation

Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson

Jack Nevin’s clever trickery and moral flexibility have served him well his entire life—making him the perfect assistant to the Enchantress, one of the most well-known stage magicians in early-twentieth-century Europe. Without Jack’s steady supply of stolen tricks and copycat sleight-of-hand illusions, the Enchantress’s fame would have burned out long ago—not that she would ever admit it. But when they’re forced to flee the continent for America, the Enchantress finds a new audience in Seattle at the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific World’s Fair Exposition. She and Jack are set to make a fortune until a new magician arrives on… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Racism
  • Emotional abuse & gaslighting
  • Bloodletting
  • Physical injuries, including graphic burns
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Imprisonment
  • Arson

The Poison Waves by Sayantani DasGupta

Kiya and Kinjal have succeeded in their first quest in the magical world of the Kingdom Beyond, but it quickly becomes obvious that whatever good they achieved might not be enough. Their faithful flying horses Snowy and Raat reappear and whisk them back to the Kingdom at the behest of the magical Princess Pakkhiraj. There, she tells them the water pari–winged merpeople–are slowly being poisoned and it is up to the twins to figure it out and put a stop to it. Fortunately Kiya has the know how to solve this mystery…if only she can put the pieces together before the evil serpent king Sesha knows they’ve reentered the Kingdom!

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Arrow violence
  • Fire
  • Earthquakes & mud slides
  • Animal illness & death (horse, fish)

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Transmisia
  • Hate crimes
  • Fire