Tag: spooky reads
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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 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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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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Adrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting is Incredible
Possibly my favourite read of Spooktober 2025, Adrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting crept up on me, taking my easy weekend reading time to the next level with no breaks and an impatient need to get the answers I so desperately needed. The vibes are immaculate, marrying witchy fantasy eeriness with a small town (or, in…
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Haunting Book Recs
These recs are for those paranormal, ghostly reads that have you feeling a chill down your spine. While a few of the Witchy Book Recs could have snuck onto this list, these recs feature less magical elements, so if you aren’t all that into magic but want a good scare, then this list might be…
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The Dark and Sinister Tale of Dot Hutchison’s The Butterfly Garden
I requested The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison thanks to one of my trusted Bookstagram readers, and given the number of novels I had to read in a short time, I gave it to my mum to read first. She zoomed through it. I just finished it, and even being under the weather couldn’t prevent…