Tag Archives: Physical Injuries & Illness

Enchantra by Kaylie Smith

Genevieve Grimm has felt adrift ever since her sister became the head of the family. So when a mysterious friend of their mother’s invites her to Italy, she accepts. She arrives at his grand palace, expecting passion and magic, decadence and luxury… perhaps even a midnight ball. She doesn’t expect the owner’s ruthlessly handsome son to slam the door in her face. Rowin Silver is tall, dark, and exceptionally rude, and invitation or not, he demands Genevieve leave and never come back. But Genevieve follows nobody’s orders, especially those of arrogant rich boys. She slips inside…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming recounted
  • Child neglect
  • Self-harm (secondary character)
  • Panic attack
  • Alcohol consumption & drugging (drink spiking)
  • Blood & gore depiction including the depiction of dead bodies, emesis & graphic injuries
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Knife violence

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity mentioned (secondary characters)
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Health-related anxiety discussed
  • Body image & weight discussed
  • Pregnancy & miscarriage
  • Serious childhood illness discussed
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent in a car accident mentioned
  • Blackmail
  • Bullying recounted

Sibylline by Melissa de la Cruz

Raven, Atticus, and Dorian have dreamed of attending Sibylline for as long as they can remember. But when the magical ivy league rejects them, the friends’ plans of a future together studying the arcane begin crashing down. Until they decide to steal an education. Getting jobs on campus, they sneak into lectures and swipe forbidden texts, dodging the administration’s watchful eye. In the quiet of night, in the thrill of secrecy, their magic awakens. And so do long-buried attractions that turn their friendship into something more… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Dubious consent scenario (including borderline necrophilia)
  • Blood & injury depiction

The Love of Our Lives by Emma Steele

Maggie should be living life to the full. She should be travelling the world, jumping out of planes, skiing in the mountains. Everything she dreamed of doing. But a year ago she fell ill and needed a heart transplant, losing all her confidence. This new heart is a gift, and Maggie believes that the best way to honour it is to be careful, cautious, safe. Then something impossible happens. Maggie wakes up one morning in a flat that’s not her own, in pyjamas that aren’t her own and when she looks in the mirror – she sees another woman’s face looking back at her. Somehow, magical… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Heart disease & organ transplantation recounted
  • Fertility issues mentioned

Dead Happy by Josh Silver

Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow. Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed up on an isolated island called Elmhallow, under the guardianship of a mysterious couple. As the experiment steps up another level, Seb is forced to team up with Eleanor once more. But where is Finn? And what does HappyHead have in store for them next?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia
  • Eugenics
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Drug use recounted
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Emesis mentioned
  • Murder & torture
  • Physical assault
  • Animal death & cruelty

Swept Away by Beth O’Leary

Lexi is looking for no-strings-attached fun with a stranger. She deserves one night for herself, doesn’t she? Zeke is looking for love. But for one night with a woman like Lexi, he’ll break his rules… Sparks fly at the pub, one passionate kiss leads to another and they end up stumbling home to the marina together. The next morning, hungover and shaken by an amazing night together, Lexi is more than ready for Zeke to leave. There’s just one small problem . . . the houseboat they stayed on has been swept out to sea. As their supplies start to run dangerously low, and the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Parental infidelity recounted
  • Minor physical injuries (knife wound. head trauma)
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Lost at sea with threat of sinking and food & water scarcity (theme, on-page)

The Island Home by Libby Page

Lorna’s world is small but safe. She loves her daughter, and the two of them is all that matters. But after nearly twenty years, she and Ella are suddenly leaving London for the Isle of Kip, the tiny remote Scottish island where Lorna grew up. Alice’s world is tiny but full. She loves the community on Kip, her yoga classes drawing women across the tiny island together. Now Lorna’s arrival might help their family finally mend itself – even if forgiveness means returning to the past… So with two decades, hundreds of miles and a lifetime’s worth of secrets between Lorna and the island, can coming home mean starting again?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Emotional abuse & gaslighting
  • Hypothermia
  • Cancer
  • Near-drowning incident

Under Your Spell by Laura Wood

Dumped by her cheating ex, fired from her dream job, about to lose her flat: Clementine Monroe is not having a good day. So when her sisters get her drunk and suggest reviving a childhood ritual called the breakup spell, she doesn’t see the harm in it. But now Clemmie has accidentally ruined a funeral, had her first one-night stand, and she’s stuck with a new job she definitely doesn’t want – spending six weeks alone with the gorgeous and very-off-limits rock star, Theo Eliott. He’s the most famous man on the planet. Her life’s a disaster. When it comes to love, Clemmie is learning you should be careful what you wish for…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Statutory rape & teen pregnancy mentioned*
  • Image-based sexual abuse (paparazzi publish intimate photos of them)
  • Harassment & loss of privacy from paparazzi (on-page & recounted)
  • Parental abandonment & neglect recounted
  • Infidelity (ex-partner) & mentions of parental infidelity*
  • Minor physical injury & emesis
  • Dieting (protagonist)
  • Death of a grandparent from a heart attack
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use recounted
  • Physical assault
  • Animal death

*Context : The protagonist’s 40-year-old father cheated on her mother and impregnated three women, including a 17-year-old teenage girl.

The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent

Mische made the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loves – and plunged the world into an eternal night. Now, imprisoned by the gods and obsessed with revenge, Asar is desperate to find her again. When a goddess offers them a final path to redemption – and back to each other – Asar and Mische embark on an extraordinary mission. Together, they must seize the power of the god of death so Asar may do the impossible: ascend to true divinity. Their journey will take them through mortal and immortal realms, alongside both old friends and ruthless… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Blood, gore & injury depiction
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Graphic torture
  • Sword violence
  • War themes & mentions of genocide

Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent

In the wake of a crushing defeat, Tisaanah and Maxatarius have been ripped apart. Tisaanah is desperate to rescue Max from his imprisonment, even as her people’s fight for freedom grows more treacherous. But within the walls of Ilyzath, Max’s mind is a shadow of what it once was… leaving his past a mystery and his future at the mercy of Ara’s new, ruthless queen. Meanwhile, in the Fey lands, Aefe has been dragged back into this world by a king who vows to destroy civilizations in her name. But even as her past returns to claim her, her former self… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Blood, gore & injury depiction
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Graphic torture
  • Sword violence
  • War themes & mentions of genocide