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The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s most feared assassin. As part of the Assassin’s Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed novellas – together in one edition for the first time – Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn’s orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery. Will Celaena ever be truly free? Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine to find out.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

The Assassin and the Pirate Lord	• Alcohol consumption • Blood & gore depiction • Physical injuries • Murder • Knifer violence • Physical assault • Imprisonment • Blackmail • Building collapse
The Assassin and the Healer	• Victim blaming • Rape mentioned • Sexual harassment • Alcohol consumption • Blood depiction • Physical injury • Emesis • Death of a mother • Murder • Knife violence & stabbing • Physical assault • Hostage situation
The Assassin and the Desert	• Adult-minor relationship • Alcohol consumption • Nonconsensual drugging • Murder • Torture • Hostage situation • Fire
The Assassin and the Underworld	• Misogyny • Slavery • Slut-shaming • Forced sex work • Suicide • Murder & attempted murder • Torture • Poisoning • Fire • Drowning
The Assassin and the Empire	• Threats of rape • Emesis • Murder • Torture

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Domestic abuse
Agoraphobia
Poisoning
Fire
Death of a parent

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past… She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse mentioned
Sex work mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Blood & injury depiction, including mentions of corpse mutilation, dead bodies, broken bones, beheading & branding
Murder & attempted murder
Torture mentioned
Physical assault & fistfights mentioned
Poisoning mentioned
Hostage situation (being held at knifepoint)
Knife & bow and arrow violence
War themes & general fantasy violence (on-page)

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other.

As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Homomisia & queermisia
Slut shaming
Hate crimes
Attempted rape & sexual assault
Incest
Child abuse recounted
Intimate partner violence recounted
Disownment
Hallucinations
Nightmares
Self-inflicted injuries
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking
Physical injuries
Dead bodies
Medical experimentation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Death of a brother & sister
Death of a mother & father
Death of a boyfriend
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Torture
Gun violence
Poisoning
Fire
Whipping
Disappearance of a loved one

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run.

Riley has been pulled into the FBI’s covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Dismemberment
Nonconsensual body modifications (tattoo)
Death from cholera mentioned
Death of a parent recounted
Murder (theme)
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence
Poisoning
Kidnapping
Motorcycle accident recounted
Death from animal attack (bear) mentioned

The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl & the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis’s mother is gravely ill. Unfortunately the cure, an endangered lemur, was made extinct eight years ago . . . by Artemis Fowl. Talk about awkward.

What if he could travel back in time, outwit his former self and bring the lemur home? With the right demon warlock, it might be possible.

But we all remember the young Artemis. He was, to put it mildly, a pretty terrible human being, so this won’t be easy.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Serious physical illness of a parent
Physical injury including broken bones
Death of a mother from radiation poisoning mentioned
Explosion & bombings
Kidnapping
Plane crash
Gun violence
Fire
Animal death (theme)
Animal cruelty
Animal medical experimentation
Animal stampede

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

As the cops close in, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood depiction
Rape mentioned
Domestic violence mentioned
Cheating
Murder
Death of a parent recounted
Poisoning mentioned
Disappearance of a spouse
Animal death

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters – never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Homomisia
Hate crimes
Incest
Sexual assault
Child abuse recounted
Intimate partner violence recounted
Hallucinations
Graphic suicide & self-inflicted injuries recounted
Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
Blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking
Physical injuries
Dead bodies
Medical experimentation
Needles & syringes
Forced starvation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a brother
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Torture
Explosion
Poisoning
Kidnapping
Imprisonment
Fire
Drowning
War themes & battle scenes

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion.
When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey… before the weekend is out, there will be none.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & racial slurs
Misogyny
Classism
Antisemitism
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Murder
Gun violence
Poisoning
Drowning

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Homomisia
Child abuse recounted
Intimate partner violence recounted
Amnesia
Suicide mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Coma
Hospitalisation
Death of a child
Death of a father
Knife violence & stabbing
Poisoning
Kidnapping
Home invasion
War themes