Tag Archives: Slut-Shaming

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Body shaming
  • Slut-shaming
  • Parental infidelity

The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart by Margarita Montimore

The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart by Margarita Montimore

Brooklyn, 1982. Oona Lockhart is about to celebrate her 19th birthday and ring in the New Year. But at the stroke of midnight, she is torn from her friends and boyfriend, finding herself in her fifty-one-year-old body, thirty-two years into the future. Greeted by a friendly stranger, Oona learns that on every birthday she will enter a different year of her adult life at random. Still a young woman on the inside, but ever-changing on the outside, who will she be next year? Wealthy philanthropist? Nineties Club Kid? World traveller? Wife to a man she’s never met? While Oona gets glimpses… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Transmisia
  • Fatmisia
  • Slut-shaming
  • Cheating
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Drug abuse
  • Terminal illness

Untouchable by Sam Mariano

Untouchable by Sam Mariano

Senior year was off to a rough start: lube in my locker, panties on my front porch, unimaginative name-calling. See, I got a player suspended from the football team for harassing me, and in my small Texas town, you don’t mess with the football players—even if they mess with you first. I didn’t care if it was an unpopular thing to do; I stood up for myself… and in doing so, opened Pandora’s Box. I never dreamed I would attract the attention of locally worshipped star quarterback, Carter Mahoney. Never imagined his coveted attention would turn out to be such a nightmare. Beneath his carefully constructed façade lurks a monster, a predator looking… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Sexual assault
  • Rape & statutory rape
  • Threats of rape
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging
  • Bullying

Kids Like Us by Hilary Reyl

Kids Like Us by Hilary Reyl

Martin is an American teen on the autism spectrum living in France with his mom and sister for the summer. He falls for a French girl who he thinks is a real-life incarnation of a character in his favorite book. Over time Martin comes to realize she is a real person and not a character in a novel while at the same time learning that love is not out of his reach just because he is autistic.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Slut-shaming
  • Disordered food & weight thoughts
  • Bullying
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Girlfriend Material by Katia Rose

Girlfriend Material by Katia Rose

They may both be star students in their costume design program, but when it comes to relationships, Allison and Kate are as different as their fashion senses. Kate marches through life in combat boots and crop tops, breaking hearts as fast as she steals them and insisting anything more than an emotionless hook-up is a waste of time. Allison knits her own sweaters, wears socks with tiny strawberries on them, and has spent two years of college utterly failing at her goal of getting a girlfriend before graduation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
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Chasing The Taillights by Kate Larkindale

Chasing The Taillights by Kate Larkindale

Lucy and Tony share nothing except genes. Tony’s the champion diver destined for greatness. Lucy’s biggest concern is getting Cute Guy from the burger joint to ask her out. After an accident kills their parents, the siblings are forced to rely on one another—and decide whether to reveal their secrets. Lucy can’t tell Tony what she knows about the accident for fear of destroying the tentative bond between them. If she doesn’t confess, she might lose her mind. If she does, she might lose the only person she has … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Internalised homomisia
  • Slut-shaming
  • Alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Death of a parent
  • Car accident
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Shadows and Dreams by Alexis Hall

Shadows & Dreams by Alexis Hall

The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by a self-appointed council of vampire oligarchs. To be fair, I did kind of do it (the murder, not the bananas). But I was kind of saving my girlfriend, who is kind of one of them. On top of this, I’ve also wound up with a primordial queen of the damned trying to strangle me in my dreams. And the conspiracy of undead… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableist language & Islamophobia
  • Slut-shaming
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Attempted suicide mentioned
  • Alcoholism
  • Smoking
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture mentioned
  • Kidnapping

The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her “aunt.” With no relations that she knows of, Molly assumes she has been sold as free domestic labor for the price of an extra donation in the church orphanage’s coffers. Such a thing is not unheard of. There are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s Philadelphia. Only, when Molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real, exceedingly wealthy, and with secrets of her own. Secrets and wealth she intends to share–for a price.⁠… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Slut shaming
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Prescription drug addiction
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Death of a pregnant woman
  • ‘Botched’ abortion mentioned
  • Blood, gore & mutilation
  • Dead bodies
  • Rabies
  • Surgery
  • Murder
  • Poisoning
  • Drowning
  • Animal death (dog)
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The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham

The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham

Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. To raise funds for her cause, she’s set to publish explosive memoirs exposing the powerful man who ruined her. Her ideals are her purpose, her friends are her family, and her paramours are forbidden to linger in the morning. Adam Anderson is a wholesome, handsome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children, a business to protect, and an aversion to scandal. He could never, ever afford to fall for Seraphina. But her indecent proposal—one month, no strings, no future—proves too tempting for a man who strains to keep his… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Classism
  • Slut-shaming
  • Alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Miscarriage
  • Stillbirth
  • Death during childbirth recounted
  • Emesis
  • Death of a spouse recounted
  • Animal death
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Bad Mommy by Tarryn Fisher

Bad Mommy by Tarryn Fisher

When Fig Coxbury buys a house on West Barrett Street, it’s not because she likes the neighbourhood, or even because she likes the house. It’s because everything she desires is next door: The husband, the child, and the life that belongs to someone else.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia & slut-shaming
  • Infidelity
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Miscarriage
  • Cancer
  • Death of a parent
  • Stalking