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Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism & racial slur
  • Slut shaming
  • Misogyny
  • Blood & physical injury depiction
  • Drug dependency
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Death of an aunt recounted
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Fire
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City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other.

As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Ableism & ableist language
  • Homomisia & queermisia
  • Slut shaming
  • Hate crimes
  • Attempted rape & sexual assault
  • Incest
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Intimate partner violence recounted
  • Disownment
  • Hallucinations
  • Nightmares
  • Self-inflicted injuries
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Recreational drug use
  • Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking
  • Physical injuries
  • Dead bodies
  • Medical experimentation
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a brother & sister
  • Death of a mother & father
  • Death of a boyfriend
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Torture
  • Gun violence
  • Poisoning
  • Fire
  • Whipping
  • Disappearance of a loved one
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Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

The shadow of Godolia’s tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords.

Eris Shindanai is a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When one of her missions goes awry, Eris meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. At first Eris sees Sona as her mortal enemy, but Sona has a secret: She has intentionally infiltrated the Windup program to destroy Godolia from within. As the clock ticks down to their deadliest mission yet, Eris and Sona grow closer…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Torture
  • Gun violence
  • Immolation
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Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Graphic blood & injury depiction including body horror and dead bodies
  • Death of a mother & father recounted
  • Death of a friend, on-page & recounted
  • Death of a girlfriend in a stampede recounted
  • Murder, mass murder & attempted murder, on-page
  • Tank accident
  • Physical assault, on-page
  • Gun violence, on-page
  • Shipwreck
  • Drowning discussed
  • Torture
  • Whipping mentioned
  • Knife violence & stabbing, on-page
  • Riots, on-page
  • Police brutality & violence, on-page
  • Fire & immolation
  • Graphic penal labour & inhumane imprisonment (theme)
  • Homelessness recounted
  • Animal death
  • Animal attack

These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

Brie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, she’ll do whatever it takes to get her back—including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court. Caught between two dangerous courts, Brie must decide who to trust with her loyalty. And with her heart. 

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Parental abandonment
  • Forced sex work mentioned
  • Nonconsensual drugging
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a mother & father
  • Murder mentioned
  • Kidnapping
  • Blackmail
  • Fire & house fire
  • Animal attack
  • Labour camps
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The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl & the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis’s mother is gravely ill. Unfortunately the cure, an endangered lemur, was made extinct eight years ago . . . by Artemis Fowl. Talk about awkward.

What if he could travel back in time, outwit his former self and bring the lemur home? With the right demon warlock, it might be possible.

But we all remember the young Artemis. He was, to put it mildly, a pretty terrible human being, so this won’t be easy.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Serious physical illness of a parent
  • Physical injury including broken bones
  • Death of a mother from radiation poisoning mentioned
  • Explosion & bombings
  • Kidnapping
  • Plane crash
  • Gun violence
  • Fire
  • Animal death (theme)
  • Animal cruelty
  • Animal medical experimentation
  • Animal stampede
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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren’t the fairies of bedtime stories—they’re dangerous!

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Recreational drug use (smoking)
  • Kidnapping
  • Hostage situation
  • Explosion
  • Electrocution
  • Explosion
  • Fire
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Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed… But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Antisemitism
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Rape & attempted rape
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic abuse mentioned
  • Self harm
  • Blood depiction
  • Fire
  • Animal cruelty
  • Bullying
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Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned.

Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. His path was never meant to cross with Lou’s, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible union—holy matrimony.

The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou’s most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Misogyny
  • Rape mentioned
  • Forced marriage
  • Child abandonment mentioned
  • Domestic violence
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Self-harm
  • Nonconsensual drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Medical experimentation
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Fire & immolation
  • Kidnapping
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The Witch King by HE Edgmon

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to his best friend, fae prince Emyr North, was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he fled to the human world.

Now a coldly distant Emyr has hunted him down. Despite transgender Wyatt’s newfound identity and troubling past, Emyr has no intention of dissolving their engagement. In fact, he claims they must marry now or risk losing the throne. Jaded, Wyatt strikes a deal with the enemy, hoping to escape Asalin forever. But as he gets to know Emyr, Wyatt realizes the boy he once loved may still exist. And as the witches face worsening conditions, he must decide once and for all what’s more important—his people or his freedom.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Transmisia
  • Deadnaming & misgendering
  • Verbal & physical parental abuse
  • PTSD
  • Panic attack
  • Dissociation
  • Drug use
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Emesis
  • Explosion
  • Immolation
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