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A Dark & Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth

A Dark & Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth

Choose your player: the “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family; a tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm hellbent on revenge; a dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne; or the prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.

For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.

Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Toxic relationship
Disownment
Addiction & drug use
Depression & PTSD
Suicide recounted (off-page) & suicidal ideation
Blood & gore depiction and minor body horror
Death of a child
Gun violence
Fire (arson)
Human trafficking
Stalking
Poverty themes

See the author’s note on the trigger and content warnings here.

The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

The Protector is dead.

For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead. Her followers will quiver, her enemies rejoice.

But in one tavern, deep in rebel territory, her greatest enemy drowns her sorrows. Lady Han raised a movement that sought the Protector’s head, yet now she can only mourn her loss. She remembers how it all began, when the Protector was young, not yet crowned, and a desperate dancing girl dared to fall in love with her.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Child trafficking
Rape & paedophilia
Suicide
Forced sterilization
Death of a toddler

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

Graphic rape of a child and child sexual abuse
Child sex trafficking & sexual slavery mentioned
Suicide by gun & knife, on-page
Public executions by stoning
Hanging mentioned
Gun violence

Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao

Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao

In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are deemed unnatural–even dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, is one of the most terrifying Affinites.

Ana’s ability to control blood has long been kept secret, but when her father, the emperor, is murdered, she is the only suspect. Now, to save her own life, Ana must find her father’s killer. But the Cyrilia beyond the palace walls is one where corruption rules and a greater conspiracy is at work–one that threatens the very balance of Ana’s world.

There is only one person corrupt enough to help Ana get to the conspiracy’s core: Ramson Quicktongue. Ramson is a cunning crime lord with sinister plans–though he might have met his match in Ana. Because in this story, the princess might be the most dangerous player of all.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & colourism
Human trafficking and indentured servitude
Child emotional & physical abuse
Parental abandonment
Attempted suicide
Terminal illness
Blood depiction
Murder
Torture, including water torture
Whipping
Royal coup

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighbourhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyper-empathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Human trafficking
Slavery
Child sexual assault & abuse
Rape, including statutory rape
Abusive relationship
Adult-minor relationships
Arranged, forced & coerced marriage
Domestic abuse
Estrangement
Physical child abuse & neglect
Addiction
Drug abuse
Blood and gore depiction including dead bodies and body parts
Cannibalism
Physical injuries
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Death of a parent
Death of a sibling
Disappearance of a loved one
Gun & knife violence
Murder
Police brutality
Bushfire
Earthquake
Home invasion
Homelessness
Poverty themes
Hunting