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The Binding by Bridget Collins

The Binding by Bridget Collins

Books are dangerous things in Collins’s alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It’s a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them.

After having suffered some sort of mental collapse and no longer able to keep up with his farm… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Rape & rape of a minor
Incest mentioned
Suicide
Animal cruelty
Animal death
Fire

Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles

Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles

There’s always been a hole in Gio’s life. Not because he’s into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio’s life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just as he’s started to get his life together, she’s back.

It’s hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Bimisia
Racism & racial profiling
Child verbal and emotional abuse
Parental abandonment
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Suicide mentioned
Death of a sibling

Souls Unfractured It by Tillie Cole

Souls Unfractured by Tillie Cole

Labeled a ‘Cursed’ woman of Eve from birth, Maddie has endured nothing but pain and repression at the hands of The Order’s most abusive elder, Moses. Now living with her sister in The Hangmen’s secluded compound, finally, Maddie, is free. Free from the suffocating faith she no longer believes in. Free from endless years of physical and mental torment.

At age twenty-one, the timid and shy Maddie is content to live within the confines of her new home—safe from the outside world, safe from harm and, strangely, protected by the Hangmen’s most… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape of a child
Domestic abuse
Child abuse & neglect
Suicide
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Murder
Torture
Kidnapping

Signal Boost by Alyssa Cole

Signal Boost by Alyssa Cole

In a secluded cabin, John and his loved ones have survived. He should feel grateful. But his family is in his face 24/7, he has to watch his best friend, Arden, and brother, Gabriel, flaunt their love, and as a techie in a Luddite world he’s pretty much useless. The cabin is brimming with people, but he feels utterly alone.

Until he catches Mr Tall, Blond and Gorgeous raiding their garden. Mykhail is an astrophysics student, he makes John’s gaydar ping like crazy and he thinks he knows what caused the devastation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Depression
Assisted suicide mentioned
Suicidal ideation

Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe

Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe

The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the magic on the island and the spirits who inhabit it. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family, where her best friend, Coco, will see her as an equal, and her crush, Miles, will finally see her. Now that she’s eighteen, Mae knows her time with the Prospers may soon come to an end.

But tonight is First Night, when the Prospers and their high-society friends return to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Outing
Parental abandonment
Suicidal ideation
Suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Drug abuse mentioned
Loss of autonomy (possession)

A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe

Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone—whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold—but just when the promise of the Stone’s riches is in their grasp, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness.

While combing through her mother’s notes, Thea learns that there’s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical & emotional parental abuse
Hallucinations
Attempted suicide by drowning
Self-harm
Murder
Torture
Physical assault

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Alexandrian Society is a secret society of magical academicians, the best in the world. Their members are caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity. And those who earn a place among their number will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams. Each decade, the world’s six most uniquely talented magicians are selected for initiation – and here are the chosen few… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect recounted
Cheating
Suicide, on-page
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction
Death of a sibling from a terminal illness recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Cheating
Anxiety
Depression
Alcoholism
Attempted suicide
Terrorism

Antisocial by Jillian Blake

Antisocial by Jillian Blake

Senior spring was supposed to mean sleeping through class and partying with friends. But for Anna Soler, it’s going to be a lonely road. She’s just been dumped by her perfect basketball star boyfriend—with no explanation. Anna’s closest friends, the real ones she abandoned while dating him, are ignoring her. The endearing boy she’s always had a complicated friendship with is almost too sympathetic.

But suddenly Anna isn’t the only one whose life has been upended… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Queermisia
Anxiety
Eating disorder mentioned
Suicide
Self-harm
Abortion mentioned
Bullying

Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Zodiac Academy: Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

The winds of fate are shifting, and it finally seems like they’ve been twisted in our favour. On the run and cast out from society, we’ve been forced to hide from the mad man who stole our throne. But as more secrets come to light and my sister and I work harder than ever before to reach our potential and claim our birthright, the end is finally drawing closer.

There is no turning from this path now. The curse chases on our heels as time rushes by and the blood-drenched destiny of the man I love looms ever closer just like the monster who stole our throne… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Hate crime
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Murder
Torture