Whipping & Flogging – Page 3 – Trigger Warning Database

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Body dysmorphia
Rape
Graphic self-harm including burning and cutting
Dismemberment of hands and fingers, eye trauma, and mutilation like cutting out tongues
Murder
Torture including whipping, skinning and mentions of foot binding and boiling someone alive
Drowning

Little Taste of Need by Clio Evans

Creatures of all kinds go to the Barista to find love, including the sexy Naga princess Naomi.

Naomi wants someone to let her treat them like royalty, someone she can mesmerize.

The Barista introduces Naomi to Ella— a human that is very new to the world of fangs and claws but excited to meet her very own monster… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Arson mentioned
Flogging (consensual)
Kidnapping

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are Boneless Mercies – death-traders, hired to kill quickly, quietly and mercifully. It is a job for women, and women only. Men will not do this sad, dark work.
Frey has no family, no home, no fortune, and yet her blood sings a song of glory. So when she hears of a monster slaughtering men, women, and children in a northern jarldom, she decides this the Mercies’ one chance to change their fate… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexism
Ableism & ableist language
Parental abandonment recounted
Child abuse
Attempted forced child sex work mentioned
Suicide & assisted voluntary euthanasia, on-page
Suicidal ideation & attempted suicide recounted
Self-flagellation, on-page
Dead bodies & body parts
Blood & gore depiction
Eyeball trauma
Serious physical injury & illness
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child, on-page
Death of a sister recounted
Death of a girlfriend recounted
Death of a mentor recounted
Death of a parent from illness recounted
Death of a friend, on-page
Graphic murder & attempted murder (theme)
Knife, axe & attempted murder
Hanging, off-page
Poisoning
Graphic drowning
Kidnapping & captivity
War themes & battle scenes
Animal attack
Graphic animal death
Animal abuse

The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat

The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat

As assistant to Mangkon’s most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman—and in a kingdom where the status of one’s ancestors dictates their social position, the truth could ruin her. Sai seizes the chance to join an expedition to chart the southern seas, but she isn’t the only one aboard with secrets. When Sai learns that the ship might be heading for the fabled Sunderlands—a land of dragons, dangers, and riches beyond imagining—she must weigh the cost of her dreams.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parent with alcohol abuse issues, implied
Blood & injury depiction including a broken leg and scars
Physical assault
Whipping
Animal injury
Whaling

Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they’ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Human trafficking
Slavery
Misogyny
Domestic violence
Substance addiction
Self-harm including self-flagellation
Blood depiction
Death of a parent
Lynching
Kidnapping
Torture

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

But the clock is ticking, and every moment Tommo spends remembering how things used to be, means another moment closer to something which will change his life forever. But the clock is ticking, and every moment Tommo spends remembering how things used to be, means another moment closer to something which will change his life forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consimption
Smoking mentioned
Death of a father recounted
Gun violence
Whipping
Military deployment in World War One (theme)
Animal death (dog)

Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn’t just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from Julian. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides? Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. Everyone wants it. Only the Blackthorns can find it. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma; her best friend, Cristina; and Mark and Julian Blackthorn journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted. Meanwhile… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Blood & gore depiction including dead bodies
Grief and loss depiction
Death of a mother and father recounted
Murder and attempted murder
Exile
Drowning
Whipping recounted
War themes

Children of the Fox by Kevin Sands

Children of the Fox by Kevin Sands

Lured by the promise of more money than they’ve ever dreamed of, five young criminals are hired to steal a heavily guarded treasure from the most powerful sorcerer in the city. There’s Callan the con artist, Meriel the expert at acrobatics (and knives!), Gareth the researcher, Lachlan who can obtain anything, and Foxtail, whose mysterious eyeless mask doesn’t hinder her ability to climb walls like a spider. Though their shadowy backgrounds meant that they’ve never trusted anyone but themselves, the five must learn to rely on each other in order to get the job done… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death from exposure to the cold
Eyeball trauma
Scars
Physical assault
Whipping recounted

Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Suicide
Self-harm
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Graphic physical injuries
Murder
Gun violence
Torture
Whipping
Physical assault

The Dead Don’t Drink at Lafitte’s by Seana Kelly

The Dead Don’t Drink at Lafitte’s by Seana Kelly

I’m Sam Quinn, the werewolf book nerd owner of the Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar. Things have been busy lately. While the near-constant attempts on my life have ceased, I now have a vampire gentleman caller. I’ve been living with Clive and the rest of his vampires for a few weeks while the Slaughtered Lamb is being rebuilt. It’s going about as well as you’d expect. My mother was a wicche and long dormant abilities are starting to make themselves known. If I’d had a choice, necromancy wouldn’t have been my top pick, but it’s starting to come in handy. A ghost warns me someone is coming to kill Clive. When I rush back to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault mentioned
Panic attacks
Blood & gore depiction
Decapitation
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Lynching
Whipping
Home invasion
Captivity & confinement
Hostage situation
Blackmail
Loss of autonomy
Grave desecration