Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan

A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don’t need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week.

So begins Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic–and sarcastic asides–to the classics.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Misogyny
  • Slavery
  • Rape
  • Incest
  • Sexual harassment
  • Parental abandonment & neglect
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Nonconsensual drugging
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy from rape
  • Childbirth
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Dead bodies & body parts
  • Dismemberment
  • Cannibalism
  • Emesis
  • Death of a father & husband
  • Death of a daughter
  • Infanticide
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Whipping mentioned
  • Imprisonment
  • Animal death
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A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Misogyny
  • Slavery
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Paedophilia
  • Incest
  • Child abuse
  • Suicide
  • Self harm mentioned
  • Pregnancy
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a child
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death
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A Feast For Crows by George RR Martin

A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin

Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.

The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow’s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Misogyny
  • Slavery
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Paedophilia
  • Incest
  • Child abuse
  • Suicide
  • Self harm
  • Pregnancy
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a child
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death
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A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Ableism
  • Misogyny
  • Slavery
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Paedophilia
  • Incest
  • Child abuse
  • Suicide
  • Self harm
  • Pregnancy
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a child
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death
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A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war.

As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky – a comet the colour of blood and flame – five factions struggle for control of a divided land. Brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Ableism
  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Slavery mentioned
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Paedophilia mentioned
  • Incest
  • Child abuse
  • Suicide
  • Self harm
  • Pregnancy
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Death of a child
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death mentioned
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A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.

From the fertile south, where heat breeds conspiracy, to the vast and savage eastern lands, all the way to the frozen north, kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men . . . all will play the Game of Thrones.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Ableism
  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Queermisia
  • Slavery
  • Rape & dubious consent scenarios
  • Sexual assault
  • Paedophilia
  • Incest
  • Cheating
  • Domestic abuse
  • Child abuse
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Self harm
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries, including amputation
  • Emesis
  • Death of a child
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Rape
  • Incest
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Graphic animal death (cat)
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Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that’s where their differences begin.

For Kaeleigh, she’s the misplaced focus of Daddy’s love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favorites—and she is losing. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex.

Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept—from each other or anyone else. Pretty soon it’s obvious that neither sister can handle it alone, and one sister must step up to save the other, but the question is—who?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Graphic paedophilia & child sexual abuse (on-page)
  • Incest
  • Rape & sexual assault (on-page)
  • Forced modelling for child pornorgraphy recounted
  • Cheating
  • Physical child abuse
  • Self-harm
  • Depression
  • Alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Recreational drug use & abuse
  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Car accident
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The Roses of May by Dot Hutchinson

The Roses of May by Dot Hutchinson

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.

In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Paedophilia
  • Incest
  • Rape & sexual assault
  • Eating disorder
  • Suicide
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Stalking
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The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

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It begins in our time with a rescue at sea.  Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life.  He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.

As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV.  An intricate tale of evil unfolds—an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first “witch,” Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher… a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Rape
  • Incest
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