Tag Archives: Sexual Assault

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Islamomisia
  • Sexual assault of a child
  • Physical child abuse
  • Panic attacks
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use & abuse, including a non-fatal overdose
  • Substance addiction
  • Alcoholism
  • Death of a parent
  • Police brutality
  • Bullying
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The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband’s authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Period-typical misogyny
  • Anti-indigenous racism
  • Colonialism
  • Religious bigotry and persecution for witchcraft (theme) including the on-page depiction of witch trials and burning women at the stake
  • Graphic martial rape and sexual assault
  • Infidelity*
  • Forced marriage
  • Pregnancy and pregnancy from rape discussed including childbirth
  • Miscarriage
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction including dead bodies
  • Death of a friend, on-page
  • Death of a father, husband and brother mentioned
  • Mass death by boating accident
  • Murder, on-page
  • Torture, implied
  • Imprisonment mentioned
  • Near-drowning incident
  • Animal death

*Context : The protagonist falls in love with a woman but is in a forced arranged marriage with a man.

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Song of Blood and Stone by L Penelope

Song of Blood & Stone by L. Penelope

The kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar have been separated for centuries by the Mantle, a magical veil that has enforced a tremulous peace between the two lands. But now, the Mantle is cracking and the True Father, ruler of Lagrimar and the most powerful Earthsinger in the world, finally sees a way into Elsira to seize power. All Jasminda ever wanted was to live quietly on her farm, away from the prying eyes of those in the nearby town. Branded an outcast by the colour of her skin and her gift of Earthsong, she’s been shunned all her life and has learned to steer clear from the townsfolk until a group of Lagrimari sold… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Attempted rape
  • Threats of rape
  • War themes

Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan

Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks & Ted Caplan

Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke never thought she’d want to fail a test – until she finds herself holding a thick piece of plastic and staring at two solid pink lines. How her boyfriend managed to get her pregnant, even with the most consistent use of condoms, is a mystery–but with a college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she’d have to make: an abortion. Except the closest place to legally get one is nine hundred miles away in New Mexico–and Veronica doesn’t have a car. Desperate, she turns to the only person who won’t judge her: Bailey Butler… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Lesbomisia
  • Misogyny
  • Slut shaming
  • Classism
  • Sexual assault
  • Cheating mentioned
  • Parental abandonment mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Recreational drug use
  • Cancer mentioned
  • Emesis
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Stalking
  • Death of a pet mentioned

The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi

The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi

Coralline is a shy mermaid in the Atlantic Ocean whose idyllic life is ruined by an oil spill that gravely sickens her little brother. Desperate to save him, she embarks on a quest to find a legendary elixir. She encounters a human man, Izar, who’s left his life on land behind to find a cure for his dying father. He doesn’t tell her that his family runs Ocean Dominion, an enemy corporation whose ships plunder her waters daily.. Fate pushes the two of them together, even though their worlds are at odds. Accompanied by a colorful troupe of animals, Coralline and Izar travel through coral…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault

Outcast, Volume One by Robert Kirkman

Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Paul Azaceta

Kyle Barnes has been plagued by demonic possession all his life and now he needs answers. Unfortunately, what he uncovers along the way could bring about the end of life on Earth as we know it. Collects Outcast #1-6.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape & sexual assault, implied
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Graphic blood & gore depiction

Wait for Me by Caroline Leech

Wait for Me by Caroline Leech

It’s 1945, and Lorna Anderson’s life on her father’s farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country? But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, she feels herself changing. The more she learns about him—from his time in the war to his life back home in Germany—the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. Soon Lorna is battling her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • War camps & prisoners of war
  • World War Two (theme)

Bold Bear by Layla Silver

Bold Bear by Layla Silver

He’s old enough to be my father. Hell, he’s friends with my father. He’ll never see me for the woman that I am. All he knows me as is a child, a girl who’ll never grow up. But I’m sick and tired of being treated as though I’m a minor. I’m not. I’ve grown up, and I want more. I want more of his mature kisses, of his masterful touch. I want more of his possessiveness, of the danger in his eyes… Soon enough, he’ll go exploring the world again without me. But what if I took a chance and told him how I feel? What if I told him that I want him to hold me? What if I let him know exactly what I want him to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted date rapeh

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Helen Vaughan doesn’t know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven’t spoken to their extended family since. So when her grandfather dies, she’s shocked to learn that he has left everything—the house, the grounds, and the money—to her. The inheritance comes with one condition: she must stay on the grounds of Harrow for one full year, or she’ll be left with nothing. There is more at stake than money. For as long as she can remember, Harrow has haunted Helen’s dreams—and now those dreams have… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Eye trauma mentioned
  • Body horror
  • Death of a child
  • Deth of a grandfather
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Poisoning
  • Animal attack

The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani

The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani

Children have been disappearing from across Menaiya for longer than Amraeya ni Ansarim can remember. When her friend’s sister is snatched, Rae knows she can’t look away any longer – even if that means seeking answers from the royal court, where her country upbringing and clubfoot will only invite ridicule. Yet the court holds its share of surprises. There she discovers an ally in the foreign princess, who recruits her as an attendant. Armed with the princess’s support, Rae seeks answers in the dark city streets, finding unexpected help in a rough-around-the-edges street thief with secrets of his own. But treachery… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Ableism
  • Human trafficking, off-page
  • Sexual assault
  • Physical & emotional child abuse
  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping