Tag: spooktober 2025
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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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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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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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I Can Get Down With A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan
When I saw A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan was a blend of witchy fantasy and historical fiction, I knew I needed to pick it up and give it a read. If you know me, you know I like both of those things in my books, and the idea of witches involved on both…
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I Finally Read House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig
I loved the gothic dark fantasy world of Erin A. Craig’s House of Salt and Sorrows, and I cannot believe it has taken me over two years to pick up the second book in the Sisters of Salt series, House of Roots and Ruin. This YA fantasy feels so lush and haunting, and even as…
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A New Witcher Release with Andrzej Sapkowski’s Crossroads of Ravens
The love/hate relationship I have with the Witcher books is quite serious, but Crossroads of Ravens has done wonders to lessen the hate and balance the overall standings out. This standalone novel shows a different side of Geralt than we’ve seen before, a more naive side perhaps, and in doing so shine a completely different…
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Dangerous Book Recs
These book recs are for those wanting a little more thrill to their scary, a little more suspense to their spooky, and a lot more of a fear factor in their read. Unlike Witchy Book Recs and Haunting Book Recs, I feel this category has a lot more variety and possibility. From fantasy to historical…
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The Devastating Real Horror of The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
To think this occurred only thirty years ago. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway is one of those reads that will haunt you, drawing out the darkest parts of modern history yet shedding a light on the hopeful, resilient acts of humanity that we as humans persist to partake in despite such atrocities. It…