Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra

Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra

Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she’d be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn’t want to be: spending a week at the ridiculous Cape Cod mansion of stupid-hot playboy Ben Montgomery. The same Ben Montgomery she definitely shouldn’t have hooked up with that one time. The things we do for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Colourism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Alcoholism
  • Substance addiction
  • Attempted suicide, off-page
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford

Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle’s Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother’s listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday—or rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthday—William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her features, William is convinced that the movie star is his mother, Liu Song. Determined to find Willow, and prove his… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Rape, on-page
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic abuse
  • Suicide, on-page
  • Attempted suicide recounted
  • Forced institutionalisation
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Let Her Be by Lisa Unger

Let Her Be by Lisa Unger

A writer’s misguided suspicions ruined his life once before. This time he plans to prove he’s right in a New York Times bestselling author’s haunting short story of what happens when seeing is not believing. A writer’s misguided suspicions ruined his life once before. This time he plans to prove he’s right in a New York Times bestselling author’s haunting short story of what happens when seeing is not believing.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted suicide recounted
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Stalking
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This Raging Light by Estelle Laure

This Raging Light by Estelle Laure

Can the best thing happen at the worst time? Her dad went crazy. Her mom left town. She has bills to pay and a little sister to look after. Now is not the time for level-headed seventeen-year-old Lucille to fall in love. But love—messy, inconvenient love—is what she’s about to experience when she falls for Digby Jones, her best friend’s brother.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation of a parent
  • Attempted uxoricide mentioned
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Archangel’s Shadows by Nalini Singh

Archangel’s Shadows by Nalini Singh

In the wake of a brutal war, the archangel Raphael and his hunter consort, Elena, are dealing with the treacherously shifting tides of archangelic politics and the people of a battered but not broken city. The last thing their city needs is more death, especially a death that bears the eerie signature of an insane enemy archangel who cannot—should not—be walking the streets. This hunt must be undertaken with stealth and without alerting their people. It must be handled by those who can become shadows themselves. Ash is a gifted tracker and a woman cursed with the ability to sense the secrets of anyone she touches… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism & Magical Disability Cure trope
  • Rape (off-page, secondary characters)
  • Attempted sexual assault recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Cannibalism mentioned
  • Blood-drinking
  • Death of parents in a car accident recounted
  • Death of a great-grandmother from suicide recounted
  • Death of a sister & brother from suicide by a combined overdose recounted
  • Involuntary institutionalisation of a minor recounted (protagonist)
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Torture & disembowelment (secondary character)
  • Imprisonment & captivity (secondary character)
  • Animal death

Second Nature by Amber Boudreau

Second Nature by Amber Boudreau

Mavis Corvid can’t remember. Not who she is, nor where she came from. It’s been six months and nothing. Zip. Zilch. Now she’s settling into a new life. She’s back on her feet, literally, and working at a garage in Eustace Park for a boss as grumpy as he is handsome. She has an apartment, friends, and an insatiable curiosity about werewolves. No one knows why the wolves disclosed their existence to the world, but the one-year anniversary of their reveal is fast approaching. A fight brews between two alphas that could threaten the rest of humanity unless Mavis can remember… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Persecution for witchcraft
  • Panic attack
  • Amnesia
  • Depersonalisation
  • Dysphoria
  • Drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Body horror
  • Physical injuries & illness, including burns, anaphylaxis, and loss of limb
  • Dead bodies & body parts
  • Medical experimentation
  • Medical procedures & treatment
  • Hospitalisation & psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of friend
  • Death of brother
  • Death of son
  • Death of parent
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Poisoning
  • Gun violence
  • Home invasion
  • Captivity & confinement
  • Disappearance of a loved one
  • Fire
  • Animal death & death of a pet
  • Animal illness & injury
  • Poverty
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Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. There’s a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects – and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs. Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found – murdered. Many girls at Deepdean had reason to hate Elizabeth, but who might have committed such foul play? Could the murder be linked to the secrets and scandals, scribbled on scraps of paper, that are suddenly appearing around the school? And with their own friendship falling to pieces, how will Daisy and Hazel solve this mystery?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Queermisia & lesbomisia, on-page
  • Ableism discussed
  • Racism
  • Nazism & antisemitism discussed
  • Classism
  • Chronic heart disease discussed
  • Dead body
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation for eating disorder mentioned
  • Murder of a teenage girl from blunt-force trauma to the head, off-page
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Disappearance of a child and sister
  • Bullying & rumor-spreading
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These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon—like all the girls in her class—she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer—a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver. One of New York City’s wealthiest men, he owned a newspaper and was partner in a massive shipping firm, and Jo knows he was far… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical sexism & ableism
  • Slavery
  • Forced sex work
  • Suicide
  • Involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Murder of a father
  • Physical assault & kidnapping

The Secret of Nightingale Wood Lucy Strange

The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange

1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees — or thinks she sees — in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world… 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Prescription drug abuse
  • Medical experimentation mentioned
  • Forced institutionalisation
  • Death of a brother in a fire
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This Winter by Alice Oseman

This Winter by Alice Oseman

The festive season isn’t always happy for Tori Spring and her brother Charlie. And this year’s going to be harder than most. I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now… I’m not going to think about the past few months, about Charlie and me, and all of the sad. I’m going to block it all out Just for today.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & internalised ableism
  • Bimisa
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Attempted suicide recounted
  • Eating disorder (anorexia)
  • Disordered food thoughts & restrictive eating
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation discussed
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