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Alchemised by SenLinYu

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Graphic misogyny
Rape & sexual assault (protagonist)*
Intimate partner violence
Emotional child abuse
Infidelity
Forced marriage
Anxiety & panic attacks
Amnesia & memory loss, including non-consensual memory alteration
Nightmares
Suicidal ideation & self-harm
Alcohol consumption (on-page) & mentions of smoking
Forced pregnancy & childbirth*
Miscarriage & abortion mentioned
Blood & injury depiction, including eye trauma/ loss of eye, seizures, broken bones, emesis, traumatic brain injury, weight loss & gain due to malnutrition, disembowelment & amputation
Medical procedures, human experimentation. needles & surgery, including forced sterilization of a child
Cannibalism mentioned (secondary characters)
Murder & attempted murder
Physical assault
Attempted kidnapping
Arson & bombing
Imprisonment & captivity
Torture, including sensory deprivation and solitary confinement
War themes including war crimes & eugenics
Animal death & cruelty (experimentation)
Poverty

* Context: The female protagonist is raped by the male protagonist as part of a breeding program. The male protagonist cheats on his wife, who he was forced to marry and is also cheating on him, with the female protagonist.

Mixing Magics by Clare Edge

Bernadette Crowley feels like she’s finally getting a handle on her diabetes diagnosis. At least, she can finally manage to not summon a demon every time she checks her blood sugar. But without her Grandma Orla, who disappeared into the demon dimension while protecting their family’s coven, even big wins don’t seem to matter as much. Frustrated that no one is trying hard enough to rescue Grandma Orla, Ber takes matters into her own hands, using her growing powers to try to reach the demon dimension. But nothing can prepare her for the truth, a history that… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Diabetes (protagonist)
Needles & self-injury for blood (on-page)

Accidental Demons by Clare Edge

For the youngest in a long line of witches, demons used to be no big deal. A spell and a quick prick of the finger, and a witch like Ber could summon a demon to do anything she needed—clean a mess, send a message, you name it. But that was before Ber was diagnosed with diabetes. Now each time she tests her blood sugar, accidental demons are slipping into the human dimension…and causing absolute chaos. Good thing Ber and her older sister, Maeve, know that every magical problem has a magical solution. They’ll just conjur a low-order demon to monitor… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Diabetes (protagonist)
Needles & self-injury for blood (on-page, theme)
Animal death (sacrifices)

Word of Mouse by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein

What makes Isaiah so unique? First, his fur is as blue as the sky—which until recently was something he’d never seen, but had read all about. That’s right: Isaiah can read and write. He can also talk to humans . . . if any of them are willing to listen! After a dramatic escape from a mysterious laboratory, Isaiah is separated from his “mischief” (which is the word for a mouse family) and has to survive in the dangerous outdoors, and hopefully find his missing family. But in a world of cruel cats, hungry owls, and terrified people, it’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Injections mentioned
Animal medical experimentation (theme)

Would You Rather by Allison Ashley

Noah and Mia have always been best friends, and their friendship is the most important thing to them. Life is going great for Noah and he’s up for a promotion in a job he loves. But Mia’s life is on hold as she awaits a kidney transplant. She’s stuck in a dead-end job and, never wanting to be a burden, has sworn off all romance. So when the chance of a lifetime comes to go back to school and pursue her dream, it’s especially painful to pass up. She can’t quit her job or she’ll lose the medical insurance she so desperate… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment & familial estrangement
Chronic kidney disease
Hospitalisation and medical treatment & procedures including needles and organ transplant surgery (kidney)
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a brother in a car accident recounted
Blackmail

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism, misogyny & ableism
Emesis
Self-injury (for blood) & mentions of self-starvation
Chronic illness (IBS & Crohn’s)
Needles discussed
Animal death & experimentation (including death of a cat)

Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever. Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colourful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. But with tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary at any cost—especially for her aging mentor with a fading memory. Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds. But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault recounted (secondary character), including mentions of image-based sexual abuse and attempted paedophilia
Nonconsensual voyeurism of protagonist by secondary character
Self-harm (secondary character)
Panic attack, nightmares, and survivor’s guilt
Alzheimer’s Disease (secondary character)
Alcohol consumption & drugging
Blood & gore depiction including emesis, decapitation, body parts, and dead bodies
Physical injury, including scars, burns, and previous rehabilitation after severe injuries sustained in a car accident (protagonist)
Needles (piercing)
Death of a brother in a hit-and-run car accident recounted
Death of a mother & father in a car accident
Murder of a boyfriend recounted
Murder & attempted murder (theme)
Torture recounted, including food deprivation
Physical assault
Near-drowning incident
Kidnapping & captivity recounted
Golf cart and go-cart accidents (secondary characters)
Stalking & home invasion
Animal injury & death (horse)

Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee

Stevie Hart is homeschooled, but don’t hold that against her. Sure, she and her best (okay, only) friend, Sanger, will never be prom queens, but that’s just because the Central Austin Homeschool Cooperative doesn’t believe in proms. Or dancing. Still, Stevie and Sanger know how to create their own brand of fun. Enter Max Garza, the new boy next door. After a near-fatal accident, Max is determined to defy mortality with a checklist: 23 Ways to Fake My Death Without Dying. Dead set on carrying out fabricated demises ranging from impalement to spontaneous… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Medical content including diabetic medical crisis & needles (protagonist)
Death of a parent in a car accident recounted

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

Eighteen-year-old Mila has been in the foster system since her mother abandoned her. Now that she’s graduating high school, she has nothing to do and nowhere to call home. So when she gets an offer to work as an intern on the Farm, she readily accepts. Her main job is to take care of eight-year-old Lee. At first the Farm seems like an idyllic paradise, a remote place on the cliffs with view of the sea far below. But Mila soon realises there’s something more sinister going on. Lee’s recent trauma causes Mila’s own frightening memories to bubble to the surface…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect (theme)
Parental abandonment recounted
Emotional, psychological & financial domestic abuse
Gaslighting
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Anxiety & panic attacks
Blood & injury depiction
Needles & medical treatment mentioned
Car accident mentioned
Death of grandmother & grandfather mentioned
Fire & death from fire
Near-drowning incident

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona’s not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger’s body, and she’s afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Suicidal ideation & suicide (secondary character)
Protagonist with pica & food sensory issues
Panic attack
Blood, gore & injury depiction including body horror, cancer, jellyfish sting, needles and dead bodies
Eugenics recounted
Murder by stabbing & shooting
Immolation (secondary characters)
Physical assault
Loss of autonomy (possession)
Nuclear bombs
Alcohol consumption & smoking (cigarettes)