Mostly the Honest Truth by Jody Little

Mostly the Honest Truth by Jody J. Little

After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to the straight and narrow and get back to her beloved dad as soon as she can. It’s not the first time they’ve been apart, but Jane’s determined it will be the last. After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to the straight and narrow and get back to her beloved dad as soon as she can. It’s not the first time they’ve been apart, but Jane’s determined it will be the last.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Hospital
  • Physical injury
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Where We Left Off by Roan Parrish

Where We Left Off by Roan Parrish

Leo Ware may be young, but he knows what he wants. And what he wants is Will Highland. Snarky, sophisticated, fiercely opinionated Will Highland, who burst into Leo’s unremarkable life like a supernova… and then was gone just as quickly. For the past miserable year, Leo hasn’t been able to stop thinking about the powerful connection he and Will shared. So, when Leo moves to New York for college, he sweeps back into Will’s life, hopeful that they can pick up where they left off. What begins as a unique friendship soon burns with chemistry they can’t deny tho… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia mentioned
  • Emotional child abuse & neglect recounted
  • Sexual harassment by teaching staff
  • Hospitalisation of a sibling with Bipolar Disorder

Context : The love interest’s sister has Bipolar Disorder, and is hospitalised while off her medication. During this time, she neglect and abandonment her two young children. The love interest was emotionally abused and neglected as a child by his parents too.

Stunning by Sara Shepard

A is still out there, lurking in the shadows and digging up the liars’ latest secrets Emily’s reconnecting with an old flame, one baby step at a time. But is she headed toward true love or another bundle of heartache? Spencer’s learning about the highs and lows of campus life on a trip to Princeton. Aria’s seeing a whole new side to Noel’s dad—and it could drive a wedge between her and Noel. And, for better or worse, Hanna’s getting in touch with her inner A. Secret by secret, lie by lie, the girls get tangled in A’s dangerous web… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism, sexism, transphobia & slut-shaming
  • Fatphobia & body shaming
  • Eating disorder
  • Teen pregnancy & adoption discussed (protagonist)
  • Recreational drug use (on-page)
  • Drugging (antagonist adds LSD & Ritalin to pot brownies & they’re consumed at a party by multiple characters unknowingly; a protagonist is also hospitalised)
  • Hospitalisation for childbirth & overdose
  • Murder by gunshot (on-page)
  • Fire mentioned
  • Blackmail & stalking (on-page, theme)
  • Bullying

Crushed by Sara Shepard

It’s springtime in suburban Rosewood, which means iced soy lattes, fresh manicures in shimmering pastels – and prom. But while everyone else is flipping through the racks at Saks in search of the perfect prom dress, Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria are on a different kind of hunt: They’re looking for A. Hanna puts her campaign for prom queen on the back burner to volunteer at a burn clinic, where one of A’s victims is recovering. Emily digs into Ali’s past at the mental hospital with some very crazy consequences. Spencer contacts a private eye to help her stalk her stalker. But… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia
  • Infidelity
  • Eating disorder mentioned
  • Hospitalisation for burns (secondary characters)
  • Depiction of a dead body
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Explosion recounted
  • Car accident mentioned
  • Physical assault with a weapon
  • Fire mentioned
  • Blackmail & stalking (theme)

Burned by Sara Shepard

It’s spring break, and the pretty little liars are trading in Rosewood for a cruise vacation. They want nothing more than to sail into the tropical sunset and leave their troubles behind for one blissful week. But where Emily, Aria, Spencer, and Hanna go, A goes, too. From scuba diving to tanning on the upper deck, A is there, soaking up all their new secrets. Emily is smooching a stowaway. Aria’s treasure-hunting partner is a little too interested in her booty. Spencer’s going overboard trying to land a new boy. And a blast–or rather, a crash–from Hanna’s past could mean rough waters ahead for… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny & slut-shaming
  • Parental estrangement due to teen pregnancy
  • Eating disorder mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Explosion
  • Fire mentioned
  • Near drowning
  • Car accident, resulting in hospitalisation for a coma & injury
  • Stalking & blackmail (theme)

You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

For all of Emory’s life she’s been told who she is. In town she’s the rich one–the great-great-granddaughter of the mill’s founder. At school she’s hot Maddie Ward’s younger sister. And at home, she’s the good one, her stoner older brother Joey’s babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey’s drug habit was. Four months later, Emmy’s junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental neglect
  • Revenge pornography
  • Substance addiction and recovery, including relapse
  • Suicide
  • Drug use & abuse
  • Overdose
  • Hospital
  • Cancer
  • Death of a friend
  • Car accident
  • Bullying
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The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp

The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp and illustrated by Manuel Preitano

After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham’s teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss. Within these walls, strange sounds escape at night; patients go missing; and Barbara begins to put together pieces of what she believes to be a larger puzzle. But is this suspicion simply a result of her trauma? Fellow…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Paralysis
  • Hospitalisation mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • House fire recounted
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House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault & attempted rape recounted, on-page
  • Familial estrangement
  • Hallucinations & delusions
  • Self-injury mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Recreational drug use
  • Miscarriage mentioned
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation of a parent mentioned
  • Graphic body horror
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries, including gunshot wounds
  • Graphic dead bodies
  • Emesis
  • Skinning mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a sister by drowning recounted
  • Death of a father from suicide mentioned
  • Death of a child, off-page
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Strangulation
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping recounted
  • Disappearance of a sister
  • Fire
  • Bullying
  • Animal dead bodies mentioned
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A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the centre of a cross-dimensional feud since she first travelled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird. Only now has she learned the true plans of the evil Triad Corporation—and that those plans could spell doom for dozens or hundreds of universes, each facing total annihilation. Paul Markov has always been at Marguerite’s side, but Triad’s last attack has left him a changed man—angry and shadowed by tragedy. He struggles to overcome the damage done… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Suicide & attempted suicide
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Drugging
  • Substance addiction
  • Teen pregnancy from rape by coercion mentioned
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Hospitalisation
  • Medical treatment & procedures
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a daughter
  • Death of a sister
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Strangulation
  • Car accident
  • Hostage situation
  • Loss of autonomy*
  • Blackmail
  • War & rebellion themes

* Context : The use of futuristic technology to ‘take over’ people’s bodies without consent. Sexual conduct in this situation is not consented to by the host.

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Vicious by Sara Shepard

High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have been through a lot since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared five summers ago. A stalker named “A” has harassed them for their past mistakes and revealed their darkest secrets to the world. They’ve been on TV, hounded by the press, kicked out of school, arrested, and even put in jail. With time running out, and their lives on the line, one of the Liars does something so terrifying and shocking, fans will be left breathless.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Pregnancy & miscarriage due to snowmobile accident (on-page, protagonist)Ableism & sexism
  • Infidelity recounted
  • Self-harm mentioned
  • Attempted suicide by drowning (faked)
  • Pregnancy mentioned (secondary character)
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Murder & attempted murder mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Imprisonment