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The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge

The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge

Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have been absorbed into the material. It started the day she fell from the tree at her grandma’s cabin and became blind in one eye.

Determined to understand her strange ability, Martha sets off to visit her grandmother, Mormor – only to discover Mormor is dead, a peculiar boy is in her cabin and a terrifying creature is on the loose. Then the spinning wheel starts creaking, books move around and terror creeps in . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Disfigurmisia & internalised disfigurmisia
Cheating
Child abuse mentioned
Parent with alcoholism mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Dead bodies
Hospitalisation recounted
Eyeball trauma & loss of vision (theme)
Scars
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father in a car accident recounted
Death of a grandmother
Murder
Gun violence
Hanging mentioned
Homelessness

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction – at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful – and completely unforgettable

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slavery
Child abuse
Cheating
Alcohol consumption
Paedophilia
Rape
Abortion mentioned
Emesis
Physical injuries, including burns
Death of a parent
Explosion & bombings mentioned
Electrocution
World War Two

Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith

Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith

Chris and Maia aren’t off to a great start. A near-fatal car accident first brings them together, and their next encounters don’t fare much better. Chris’s good intentions backfire. Maia’s temper gets the best of her. But they’re neighbors, at least for the summer, and despite their best efforts, they just can’t seem to stay away from each other.

The path forward isn’t easy. Chris has come out as transgender, but he’s still processing a frightening assault he survived the year before. Maia is grieving the loss of her older sister and trying to find her place in the world without her. Falling in love was the last thing on either of their minds. But would it be so bad if it happened anyway?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Queermisia & queermisic slurs
Outing
Sexual assault
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Graphic physical assault recounted
Serious physical injuries requiring surgery
Car accident
Death of a pet

The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters

The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters

Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family—the wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all his plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin and disgrace, and no respectable person could possibly understand or accept them. But Lenore steps out of the shadows with one request: “Let them see me!”

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexual harassment
Cheating recounted
Self harm
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Surgery
Gun violence
Physical assault
Strangulation
Drowning

Angel Mage by Garth Nix

Angel Mage by Garth Nix

It’s hard to be a 13-year-old girl. But it’s even harder when your father’s a drunk. It adds an extra layer to everything — your family’s reactions to things, the people you’re willing to bring home, the way you see yourself and the world. For Samantha, it’s something that’s been going on for so long that she’s almost used to it. Only, you never get used to it. Especially when it starts to get worse…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injury
Plague
Gun violence
Knife violence & stabbing
Battle scenes

Just in Case by Meg Rosoff

Just in Case by Meg Rosoff

The day David Case saves his brother’s life, his whole world changes. Suddenly, every moment is fizzing with what-if’s, and it’s up to David to outwit fate. Or try to. He changes his name and the way he looks. He leaves home and finds himself caught up in a series of strange and extraordinary adventures. He even falls in love.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Physical injury
Dismemberment
Car accident
Plane crash

Wires and Nerve, Vol 2 by Marissa Meyer

Wires & Nerve, Vol. 2 by Marissa Meyer and illustrated by Stephen Gilpin

Iko. an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder. has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth. And to show he’s serious, Steele is taking hostages.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Child abuse recounted
Psychosis & hallucinations mentioned
Blood, gore & injury depiction
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend & sister
Death of a father recounted
Murder
Physical assault
Kidnapping & hostage situation
War themes

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Recursion by Blake Crouch

That’s what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

That’s what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.

But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?

At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableist language
Gaslighting
Depression
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Alcohol consumption
Forced drug use
Alzheimers’ disease
Needles
Nonconsensual human experimentation, on-page
Forced & coerced sensory deprivation
Grief depiction
Death of a daughter, recounted
Death of a child
Torture, including psychological torture
Death by a fall, on-page
Captivity
Kidnapping
Atomic bomb
Animal medical testing

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favourite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen. Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Suicide mentioned
Physical injury (broken ankle)
Murder by decapitation mentioned
Knife & sword violence
Alcohol consumption & mentions of smoking (hookah)
Animal attack (magical bird)
War themes discussed

Winter by Marissa Meyer

Winter by Marissa Meyer

Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breath-taking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend―the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism discussed (on-page)
Sexual assault (forced kiss by coercion)
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Blood, injury & illness depiction including non-consensual amputation of a finger and biological warfare
Murder by gun & knife violence (on-page)
Torture
Kidnapping & captivity
Near-drowning incident (on-page)
Plane crash
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
War themes & battle scenes (on-page)
Death of an animal/pet