Tag Archives: Plague, Pandemic & Contagion

Wisteria by Adalyn Grace

Blythe Hawthorne has never let anyone tell her what to do—not society, not her overprotective father, and certainly not the man she’s bound herself to, no matter how rude and insufferable he is. In fact, she’s determined to be a thorn in his side for the rest of her days, even as he ensures that her life in his palace is anything but a fairytale. But as Blythe discovers a new side of herself linked to his past, she’ll have to decide if she’s willing to let an unexpected spark ignite…and to discover the truth about who she really is.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Hallucinations
  • Emesis
  • Blood & gore depiction and dead bodies
  • Plague mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Poisoning
  • Animal death

Reached by Ally Condie

After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Deaths from the plague mentioned
  • Execution for murder

Dead of Eve by Pam Godwin

A virus devastates humanity. Few men survive. The rest are monsters. The women are dead, except Evie. Through a quirk in her genetics, she survives. When her physiology begins to evolve, she must come to terms with what she is and accept her role in finding a cure. The mutated hunt her. The men brutalize her…except three. Cryptic warrior, contrite lover, caring enemy; they are fiercely protective of the last living woman, but divided in their own agendas. Can they come together to protect the only hope for humanity? Evie must survive.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Islamophobia (on-page)
  • Rape & attempted sexual assault (protagonist)
  • Forced impregnation mentioned
  • Global epidemic resulting in mass death
  • Graphic blood & gore depiction

The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield

The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. The Chatelaine has come. The year is 1328 and Hell has overrun Bruges. Demons stalk the streets and revenants swarm the walls. The city’s men have fallen and only widows remain. But Hell should fear them. Margriet de Vos killed her first soldier when she was eleven. She has buried six children and will fight for the daughter left to her. Their only wealth is gone, taken into the inferno. And she will not be stolen from. The Devil be damned. Together with a man-at-arms with unfinished business, a widow and her forgehammer and a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical ableism, antisemitism, misogyny & misgendering
  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Body horror
  • Famine & plague
  • War themes
  • Poverty

Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield

Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield

After abducting Arthur of Brittany from his own time in 1203, thereby creating the mystery that partly prompted the visit in the first place, Alice and her team discover that they have inadvertently brought the smallpox virus back to 1780 with them. Searching for a future vaccine, Prudence finds that the various factions in the future time war intend to use the crisis to their own advantage. Can the team prevent an international pandemic across time, and put history back on its tracks? At least until the next battle in the time war…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical misogyny & lesbophobia
  • Sexual harassment (unwanted touching)
  • Childbirth mentioned
  • Plague (smallpox)
  • Death of a sister
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping & imprisonment
  • War themes & a battle scene

The Exception to the Rule by Christina Lauren

One typo, and a boy and girl connect by chance. Wishing each other a happy Valentine’s Day isn’t the end. In fact, it becomes a friendly annual tradition—with rules: no pics, no real names, nothing too personal. As years pass, the rules for their email “dates” are breaking, and they’re sharing more than they imagined—including the urge to ask…what if we actually met?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • COVID-19 pandemic discussed
  • Death of a parent from breast cancer, off-page
  • Car accident mentioned

Powerless by Lauren Roberts

She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting. He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to preserve his Elite society, lacking an ability suddenly became a crime—making Paedyn Gray a felon by fate and… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Domestic abuse
  • Panic attack
  • Suicide
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Graphic blood & injury depiction
  • Plague recounted
  • Death of a mother from a fever recounted
  • Death of a father from sword violence recounted
  • Genocide
  • Explosions & fire
  • Knife, sword, spear & weapons violence
  • Whipping
  • Animal death
  • Rockslide

Mark of the Plague by Kevin Sands

The Black Death has returned to London, spreading disease and fear through town. A mysterious prophet predicts the city’s ultimate doom—until an unknown apothecary arrives with a cure that actually works. Christopher’s Blackthorn shop is chosen to prepare the remedy. But when an assassin threatens the apothecary’s life, Christopher and his faithful friend Tom are back to hunting down the truth, risking their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy. And as the sickness strikes close to home, the stakes are higher than ever before…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption mentioned
  • Plague (theme)
  • Physical injury & Illness (broken bones, plague)
  • Death of a child mentioned
  • Murder including mentions of a mob lynching
  • Explosion
  • Physical assault of minors & threats of torture
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Animal injury (bird)

Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

Six roses. Six vials of blood. Six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation… or her damnation. Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands. Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate even more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood–the one hope for her town’s salvation. But when… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Graphic blood & illness depiction
  • Needles
  • Plague
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent & child during childbirth
  • Physical assault
  • War themes & battle scenes
  • Animal cruelty mentioned (animal testing)

Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings

Tilly Twomley is desperate for change. White-knuckling her way through high school with flawed executive functioning has left her burnt out and ready to start fresh. Working as an intern for her perfect older sister’s start up isn’t exactly how Tilly wants to spend her summer, but the required travel around Europe promises a much-needed change of scenery as she plans for her future. The problem is, Tilly has no idea what she wants… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Emesis
  • COVID-19 pandemic recounted