Tag Archives: Medical Experimentation

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of medical experimentation, including consensual and nonconsensual medical trials and experimental treatments, procedures, and medications

See also Physical injuries, Blood & gore depiction, and Hospitalisation

Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young

The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved—it says so on their report cards. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians, the all-girl boarding school offers an array of studies and activities, from “Growing a Beautiful and Prosperous Garden” to “Art Appreciation” and “Interior Design.” The girls learn to be the best society has to offer. Absent is the difficult math coursework, or the unnecessary sciences or current events. They are obedient young ladies, free from arrogance or defiance. Until Mena starts to realize that their carefully controlled existence… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny, slut-shaming & victim blaming
  • Emotional abuse & gaslighting
  • Rape culture (theme), including sexual harassment, sexual assault (on- & off-page) and rape of a minor, implied
  • PTSD, trauma, nightmares & flashbacks
  • Dieting & food-shaming
  • Alcohol consumption & drugging
  • Infertility mentioned
  • Blood & injury depiction including body horror, dead bodies, consensual & non-consensual medical treatment, graphic use of needles, and human medical experimentation
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Graphic torture
  • Knife violence
  • Strangulation
  • Physical assault
  • Loss of autonomy (memory & mind manipulation)
  • Disappearance of a friend

The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd

The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd

Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London — working as a maid and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father’s gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.

Accompanied by her father’s handsome young assistant, Montgomery, and an enigmatic castaway, Edward — both of whom she is deeply drawn to—Juliet travels to the island, only to discover the depths of her father’s madness.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Sexism
  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Murder
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Medical experimentation on humans and animals
  • Animal abuse & torture
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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire book cover

Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.

Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.

Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.

Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Child abuse
  • Suicide attempt, on-page
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm
  • Blood and gore depiction
  • Physical injuries, specifically gunshot wounds
  • Nonconsensual hospitalisation
  • Medical experiementation
  • Death of a mentor
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
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