Hospitalisation – Page 13 – Trigger Warning Database

The Resolutions by Mia Garcia

The Resolutions by Mia Garcia

New Years are for fresh starts, but Jess just wants everything to go back to the way it was. From hiking trips, to four-person birthday parties, to never-ending group texts, Jess, Lee, Ryan, and Nora have always been inseparable—and unstoppable. But now, with senior year on the horizon, they’ve been splintering off and growing apart. And so, as always, Jess makes a plan. Reinstating their usual tradition of making resolutions together on New Year’s Eve, Jess adds a new twist: instead of making their own resolutions, the four friends assign them for each other—dares like kiss someone you know is wrong for you, show… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Panic attack
Hospital
Death of a parent recounted
Car accident

The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson

The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson

Rory and her friends are reeling from a series of sudden and tragic events. While racked with grief, Rory tries to determine if she acted in time to save a member of the squad. If she did, how do you find a ghost? Also, Rory’s classmate Charlotte has been kidnapped by Jane and her nefarious organization. Evidence is uncovered of a forty-year-old cult, ten missing teenagers, and a likely mass murder. Everything indicates that Charlotte’s in danger, and it seems that something much bigger and much more terrible is coming. Time is run… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted suicide & suicidal ideation recounted
Nonconsensual drugging, on- & off-page
Hospital
Coma
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Minor physical injuries
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend
Kidnapping
Cults
Mass murder by poison
Explosion
Car accident recounted

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & homomisic slurs
Coming out themes
Ableism & ableist language
Racism
Attempted sexual assault of a child by an uncle, on-page
Parental abandonment & neglect
Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse
Domestic violence recounted, off-page
Cheating mentioned
Nightmares
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Hospitalisation for attempted suicide recounted
Suicidal ideation
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Graphic body horror
Emesis
Murder & attempted murder
School shooting
Gun & knife violence
Car accident
Loss of autonomy (ghost possession)
Animal death (insects)
Animal abuse & torture (insects)
Bullying

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

Jasper “Jazz” Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he’s also the son of the world’s most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal’s point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo’s Nod. In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Graphic dismemberment
Drugging
Hospitalisation of a friend
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Torture
Animal death

You Have a Match by Emma Lord

You Have a Match by Emma Lord

When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie … although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident) with Leo, things have been awkward on that front. But she didn’t know she’s a younger sister. When the DNA service reveals Abby has a secret sister, shimmery-haired Instagram star Savannah Tully, it’s hard to believe they’re from the same planet, never mind the same parent… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment mentioned
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Anxiety
Physical injury & illness, including pneumonia & broken bones
Parent hospitalised for a serious, perceived terminal heart condition recounted
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a grandfather recounted

Spellbound by Allie Therin

Spellbound by Allie Therin

Arthur Kenzie’s life’s work is protecting the world from the supernatural relics that could destroy it. When an amulet with the power to control the tides is shipped to New York, he must intercept it before it can be used to devastating effects. This time, in order to succeed, he needs a powerful psychometric…and the only one available has sworn off his abilities altogether. Rory Brodigan’s gift comes with great risk. To protect himself, he’s become a recluse, redirecting his magic to find counterfeit antiques. But with the city’s fate hanging in the balance, he can’t force himself to say… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Familial abandonment
Alcohol consumption
Psychiatric hospitalisation
Blood & injury depiction
Emesis, off-age
Murder
Kidnapping
Threat of drowning

Purge by Sarah Darer Littman

Purge by Sarah Darer Littman

Janie Ryman hates throwing up. So why does she binge eat and then stick her fingers down her throat several times a day? That’s what the doctors and psychiatrists at Golden Slopes hope to help her discover. But first Janie must survive everyday conflicts between the Barfers and the Starvers, attempts by the head psychiatrist to fish painful memories out of her emotional waters, and shifting friendships and alliances among the kids in the ward.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Eating disorder (bulimia)
Disordered & binge eating
Psychiatric hospitslisation
Emesis

Steadfast by Claudia Gray

Steadfast by Claudia Gray

Nadia, Mateo, and Verlaine have saved Captive’s Sound from the dark Sorceress Elizabeth…or so they thought. Despite their best efforts, a crack opened and a new, greater evil seeped through. With Mateo as her Steadfast, Nadia’s magic is magnified and she is more powerful than ever. But there is still so much she doesn’t know about the craft, leaving her open and vulnerable to a darker magic…which has begun to call Nadia’s name.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape & attempted rape by coercion (off-page)
Parental abandonment
Parental divorce
Nightmares
Suicide discussed
Hospitalisation
Coma
Eye-gouging mentioned
Death of a mother from suicide by drowning mentioned
Death of a mother & father from viral pneumonia mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Sinkholes, on-page
Animal attack
Animal death (birds)

The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane

The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane

For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission. They tell her she’s the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she’s lucky to be alive. But she doesn’t feel lucky. She feels…lost. With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O’Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life…and start a… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Dubious consent scenario*
Retrograde amnesia
Pregnancy & childbirth
Hospitalisation
Death of a friend
Death of a boyfriend
Plane crash, off-page

*Context : The two main characters, who are in a sexual relationship, are lying about their identities and manipulating each other.

Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine

Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine

With an iron fist, the Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion and, in the name of the greater good, forbidding the personal ownership of books. Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but serving in its army is nothing like he envisioned. His life and the lives of those he cares for have been altered forever. His best friend is lost, and Morgan, the girl he loves, is locked away in the Iron Tower, doomed to a life apart from… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Terrorism
Involuntary breeding programs involving minors
Child abuse
Parental abandonment
Trauma (central theme)
Panic attacks, on-page
Blood & injury depiction
Hospitalisation
Emesis
Murder & attempted murder
Graphic psychological and physical torture, off-page
Gun violence
Physical assault
Fire
Explosion
Car accident
Kidnapping
Imprisonment
Disappearance of a loved one
Animal attack