Tag: adult book recs

• The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison Will Have Your Skin Crawling

  The Butterfly Garden and The Roses of May were great, but there is something about Dot Hutchison’s third instalment in The Collector series, The Summer Children, that had me stuck right in there. With the quick pacing, dark storyline, compelling plot, fantastic characters, and jarring detail, it will be impossible to put down. Content Warning:…

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  November 17, 2025

  Crime Fiction

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• Claire Keegan’s Foster – Sad, Heartfelt, and Deeply Moving

  I cannot get enough of Claire Keegan’s short yet shocking reads. The efficiency of her narrative style and word choice makes her novels concise and poignant, leaving no room for misinterpretation or guesswork. Foster is yet another one of her books that strikes at the heart of the reader with its simple yet emotionally complex…

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  November 12, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction

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• The Unmaking of June Farrow – Yet Another Fabulous Adrienne Young Novel

  There is something addictive about Adrienne Young’s adult fantasy novels that scratches that itch deep in my soul. Spells for Forgetting is a stunning masterpiece, and The Unmaking of June Farrow carries a similar weight, depth, and poignancy. While it is classified as an adult fantasy, the emotions and characters feel real, grounded, and compelling.…

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  November 10, 2025

  adult fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction

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• Alicia Thompson’s The Art of Catching Feelings Delivers Heartfelt Sports Romance Goodness

  The Art of Catching Feelings, a standalone sports romance by Alicia Thompson, is just the right balance of baseball, contemporary romance, working through personal trauma, and steamy romance. Romance isn’t set in a vacuum, and this novel encapsulates that idea exactly right with conflicts and interactions that are just as important in the story as…

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  November 5, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• A Touching Exploration of Identity in Jeffrey Buchanan’s The Birds Began to Sing

  Jeffrey Buchanan’s Gifkins Award-winning novel, The Birds Began to Sing, is precious, tender, and sombre. Exploring many queer themes like homosexuality, transexuality, internalised homophobia, identity, and living in a world where homosexuality is a crime, this novel is full of many heartfelt moments, revelations, and complexities that make it not only a standout novel, but…

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  November 3, 2025

  Historical Fiction

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• My October 2025 Reading Summary

  Overall Mood: content – I have spent a lot of months recently reading a lot of books, so I wasn’t expecting to get all that many read this month. In fact, I was half expecting to have to ditch my Spooktober plan halfway through and make up a lot of discussion posts to stretch out…

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  October 31, 2025

  Discussion Posts

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• The Roses of May by Dot Hutchison is a Hair-Raising, Scarily Good Read

  I’m back with another novel from The Collector series by Dot Hutchison, this one being The Roses of May. I thoroughly enjoyed The Butterfly Garden, and as soon as I finished it, I requested the this one and the third one, The Summer Children, for my mum to read. I was going to try and…

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  October 29, 2025

  Crime Fiction, Horror

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• Finally Getting Into The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

  The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin is one of those books that I have seen across bookish social media, but in an organic, intentional way. There is a lot of love for The Broken Earth series and for N. K. Jemisin as a writer, and I can totally see why. I’m surprised I hadn’t…

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  October 27, 2025

  adult fantasy

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• Creepy Book Recs

  At last, my final book recs list for Spooktober 2025. This one is all about the creepy, the eerie, the horrifying, and the unsettling. Making these lists has been so much fun, but I can’t lie – I will be happy to go back to my four posts a week schedule in November. I have…

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  October 26, 2025

  Discussion Posts, Horror

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• Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak – A Creepy Horror Must-Read

  I spotted this quite by chance, but given the spooky season is upon us, I added it to my library requests and got my hands on it yesterday. Then I read it in a few hours. Jason Rekulak’s Hidden Pictures is the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween. With the creepy pictures, strange…

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  October 25, 2025

  Crime Fiction, Horror

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