Tag Archives: Gun Violence

King’s Man by Sally Malcolm

King’s Man by Sally Malcolm

Had there been no war, Sam Hutchinson and Nate Tanner would have lived their lives together as intimate friends, and secret lovers. But when the revolution convulsed America, it threw them down on opposite sides of history.

Five years later, Sam is a Loyalist refugee in London, penniless, bitter, and scrambling to survive amid the city’s shadowy underworld. It’s a far cry from his respectable life as a Rhode Island lawyer, and the last person he wants to witness his ruin is Nate Tanner— the man he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Anxiety
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Scars
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Police violence & brutality
  • Imprisonment
  • Flogging recounted
  • Colonialism
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Half Lost by Sally Green 

Half Lost by Sally Green

The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Byrn, is losing his mind. Nathan’s tally of kills is rising, and yet he’s no closer to ending the tyrannical rule of the Council of White Witches in England. Nor is Nathan any closer to his personal goal: getting revenge on Annalise, the girl he once loved before she committed an unthinkable crime. An amulet protected by the extremely powerful witch Ledger could be the tool Nathan needs to save himself and the Alliance, but this amulet is not so easily acq… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Bury Your Gays trope
  • Smoking, on-page
  • Medical experimentation
  • Blood & injury depiction, including amputation of a thumb and loss of an ear
  • Cannibalism recounted
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Poisoning
  • Explosion & bombing
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Half Wild by Sally Green 

Half Wild by Sally Green

In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted. Now, Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, and he’s on the run–but the Hunters are close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Coerced suicide of a mother recounted
  • Death of a mother from hanging mentioned
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence, including mentions of a knife being used to blind someone
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Marriage and Murder by Penny Reid 

Marriage and Murder by Penny Reid

Cletus Byron Winston wishes to marry Jennifer Anne Donner-Sylvester (aka The Banana Cake Queen) posthaste! He’s spent the last year wanting nothing more than for the celebrations to be brief, libations flowing, and BYOB (bring your own blueberries). His future mother-in-law has other plans, plans his intended has been willing to indulge, much to Cletus’s chagrin. Therefore, so must he. To a point. But truth be told, he wouldn’t mind if the meddlesome matriarch disappeared, at least until the nuptials are over… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood depiction
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Blackmail
  • Car accident
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All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred Taylor

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor

Cassie Logan is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Rape & attempted rape
  • Sexual harassment
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Lynchings
  • Police brutality
  • Physical assault
  • Immolation
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Neighbors Like That by Carina Taylor 

Neighbors Like That by Carina Taylor

Buying a house in the suburbs was supposed to be low stress—my own little haven to decorate and landscape exactly how I want. Instead, I find myself locking my garbage can to keep pests out–pests that are six-foot-one, green-eyed, and far too good-looking. My trespassing neighbour is rude and entitled. It isn’t long before war is declared, and I find myself stopping immature pranks. When trouble lands at my door, my unlikely neighbour starts knocking on my heart. Am I ready to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted kidnapping at gunpoint
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A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.’ A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a sister from pneumonia
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Gun violence
  • Home invasion
  • Poisoning
  • Strangulation
  • Near-drowning
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The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

Adventure-seeking Anne Beddingfeld is in London when she sees a stranger fall to his electrifying death in the tubes. A dreadful accident? If so, who is the man in the brown suit fleeing from the scene? Curiosity, and one cryptic clue, lead Anne aboard a cruise ship to Cape Town and into the confidence of Colonel Race, counterintelligence officer for MI5. Drawn into a dangerous conspiracy, Anne’s found the adventure she wanted. And as she’s chased across continents, all she must do now is survive it.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Antiziganism
  • Physical illness
  • Murder & attempted murder by strangulation
  • Gun violence
  • Accidental death from falling onto live train tracks, on-page*
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Military deployment during World War One recounted

*Note : Discussed whether it was suicide or not.

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The Cursed Sea by Lauren DeStefano 

The Cursed Sea by Lauren DeStefano

Wilhemina Heidle, the exiled princess of Northern Arrod, the girl thought dead by her family and friends, must return home. The only way to save Loom, the cursed prince of the Southern Isles, is to revisit the castle and discover the origins of her own curse.

But home is very different from how she left it—Wil’s unstable elder brother is now king, leading a war against the Southern Isles. And the rest of her family…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Gun violence
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