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Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defence mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.

She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Murder
Gun violence
Torture

Blameless by Gail Carriger

Blameless by Gail Carriger

Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London’s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.

While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Misogyny
Slut-shaming
Fatmisia & body-shaming
Classism
Racism
Cheating discussed
Disownment
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Drugging
Pregnancy (theme)
Miscarriage discussed in-depth
Forced ‘breeding’ programs discussed
Physical injuries, including graphic eyeball trauma
Blood & gore depiction, including on-page blood-drinking
Emesis
Dead bodies & body parts
Forced human medical experiments recounted
Eugenics discussed
Death of a father mentioned
Death of a girlfriend recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Knife violence
Physical assault
Kidnapping & captivity
Hostage situation

The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris

The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris

Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he’s being held for murder.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Suicide mentioned
Gun violence

A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris

A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris

In this second thrilling instalment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time..

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Slavery
Domestic violence
Lynching
Gun violence

An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

In the southwestern country now known as Texoma, this is a world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico, gunslinger Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards.

She may be young, but Gunnie Rose has acquired a fearsome reputation and the wizards are at a desperate crossroads, even if they won’t admit it… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape & attempted rape
Kidnapping
Gun violence
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Paradise by Toni Morrison

They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.”

Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Rape
Abortion
Miscarriage
Gun violence

Slay by Brittney Morris

Slay by Brittney Morris

By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is a college student and one of the only black kids at Jefferson Academy. By night, she joins hundreds of thousands of black gamers who duel worldwide in the secret online role-playing card game, SLAY.

No one knows Kiera is the game developer – not even her boyfriend, Malcolm. But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, the media labels it an exclusionist, racist hub for thugs… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Misogyny
Murder
Gun violence
Cyberharassment

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Stephen King

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Stephen King

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.

Imprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Antiziganism
Antisemitism
Nazism
Rape
Genital mutilation
Gun violence
Chemical gassing (gas chambers)
World War Two & the Holocaust (theme)
Concentration camps (theme)

Revival by Stephen King

Revival by Stephen King

In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs Jacobs; the women and girls – including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister – feel the same about Reverend Jacobs. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Drug abuse
Murder
Gun violence

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death..

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Paedophilia & child sexual abuse recounted
Alcoholism recovery
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a child
Murder
Torture
Gun violence