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The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked. Here’s the thing. It’s never easy. Carl and his team can’t go it alone. Not this time. They must rely on the help of the low-level, I-can’t-believe-these-idiots-are-still-alive crawlers trapped in the bubble with them. But can they be trusted? Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the fifth floor of the dungeon…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Parental abandonment & child abuse recounted
Infidelity by an ex-partner mentioned (protagonist)
Alcohol consumption & drug use
Pregnancy mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Murder & mass death
Explosions & fire
Animal death

The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

The top ten list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly-complicated subway system built out of the world’s subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far. The cars are filled with monsters, the railway stations are less than safe, and the exit is always just a few stops away. But there is hope. For the first time, the crawlers are all working together. The loot is better than ever. And the secret to unraveling it all may be hidden… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Parental abandonment & child abuse recounted
Self-sacrifice & mentions of suicide
Infidelity by an ex-partner mentioned (protagonist)
Alcohol consumption, drug use & mention of addiction and withdrawal
Blood & gore depiction and emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend
Murder & mass death
Torture

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can’t get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Carl still has no pants. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. For Carl and Donut, it’s anything… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Violence against women & sex workers
Self-injury for blood
Alcohol consumption & drugging
Emesis
Murder & mass death
Explosions & fire
Animal abuse (lizard)

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what. Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Parental abandonment & child abuse recounted
Infidelity by an ex-partner mentioned (protagonist)
Alcohol consumption & drug use
Blood & gore depiction
Murder & mass murder
Explosions & fire

Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber

Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor’s stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always been convinced that magic is real. When she tracks down a local legend named the Watch Man, who can supposedly tell you when you’ll die, the world finally makes sense. Except that the Watch Man tells her she will die at midnight tomorrow unless she finds an ancient object called the Alchemical Heart. With the clock ticking, Holland is pulled deeper into this magical world in the heart of Los Angeles… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Graphic blood & injury depiction
Death of parents mentioned
Murder
Gun & knife violence
Kidnapping

Twin Crowns by Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber

Wren Greenrock has always known that one day she would steal her sister’s place in the palace. Trained from birth to return to the place of her parents’ murder and usurp the only survivor, she will do anything to rise to power and protect the community of witches she loves. Or she would, if only a certain palace guard wasn’t quite so distractingly attractive, and if her reckless magic didn’t have a habit of causing trouble… Princess Rose Valhart knows that with power comes responsibility. Marriage into a brutal kingdom awaits, and she will not let a small matter like waking up in the middle of the desert in the company of an extremely… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Persecution for witchcraft (theme)
Child abuse recounted (on-page)
Alcohol consumption (on-page)
Attempted murder by poisoning (on-page)
Minor blood & injury depiction
Murder of a father by poisoning mentioned
Murder of a mother & great-aunt from their throats being slit (recounted & on-page)
Minor battle scenes and fantasy violence, including sword, bow and arrow & knife violence (recounted & on-page) as well as discussions of past war and genocide
Imprisonment (on-page)
Torture mentioned (off-page)
Kidnapping (on-page)
Loss of autonomy (magical-induced memory loss and sleep)
Animal death (snow leopard, elk, birds)
Bullying, including being magically suffocated and thrown off a cliff into the ocean to drown (on-page)

Dirty Ties by Pam Godwin

Revenge. I race to finance it. I evade to protect it. I kill to attain it. I planned everything. Except her. The alluring, curvaceous blonde at the finish line. With sapphire eyes that cheat and lie. Whose powerful family murdered mine. I hate her. I want her. I know she’s hiding something. But so am I.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Sexual harassment
Forced arranged marriage (secondary character)
Alcohol consumption
Death of a mother recounted
Murder by knife violence
Motorcycle accident (secondary character)

Vanquish by Pam Godwin

Her life is like a prison cell. A self-made, to-hell-with-the-free-world existence that locks from the inside. Stop judging. Her agoraphobia doesn’t define her. It simply keeps her safe. He belongs in a prison cell. The 6×8, make-me-your-bitch variety that locks from the outside. But he’s free. To hunt. To take. To break. And he just found a sexy new toy. Capturing her is the easy part. Her fucked-up mind, however, makes him question everything he does next. But he’s a determined bastard. If all goes his way, this will hurt like hell.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Internalised fatphobia & body dysmorphia
Rape, sexual slavery & nonconsensual BDSM (on-page)
Sex trafficking (on-page & recounted)
Sex work recounted
Intimate partner violence (on-page)
Emotional & verbal intimate partner abuse recounted
Forced child abandonment
Divorce recounted
Agoraphobia, bulimia & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (protagonist)
Psychiatric institutionalisation of a parent mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Drug abuse recounted (protagonists)
Death of a mother from an overdose recounted
Murder by gun violence mentioned (secondary character)
Kidnapping (on-page)

Context : The male protagonist kidnaps, rapes, and abuses the female protagonist, his love interest. He is a former stalker and sex trafficker who has raped others in the past. He has a child with a different secondary character who was forcibly taken away. The female protagonist is divorced.

Three is a War by Pam Godwin

Three means war. Three sides vying for forever. Cole. My first love. The bad boy with the dangerous smile and passionate temper draws attention like a lit fuse on dynamite. But his dark molten eyes spark only for me. Trace. My second chance. Over six feet of Norse god in a tailored suit, he calculates every move and seizes my hungry breaths with an iron fist. Me. The free-spirited dancer, torn between two men with no resolution in sight. I tried leaving, staying, refusing, and surrendering. What options do I have left? I love two men, and I do the only thing I can. I fight.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity

Two is a Lie by Pam Godwin

I never stopped loving Cole. Not when he left me. Not when he disappeared for three years. Not when he crashed back into my life in a violent explosion of testosterone and fury. His sudden reappearance questions everything I thought I knew, including how I came to love another man. Trace is an intoxicating breeze of seduction over ice. My rock. My second chance at forever. And he’s committed to annihilating the competition. The battle that ensues wrenches me back and forth between them. Fighting and fucking. Resisting and submitting. Together, they… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity
Murder (off-page)