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Has anyone read any truly scary books recently?

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105/125

📚The Bewitching
✒️Silvia Moreno-Garcia
⭐3/5

Perfect time of year for a witchy story. Took a while to get into but I ended up enjoying all 3 POVs.
As far as horror books go, this wasn't very scary - more of a thriller/mystery with supernatural elements.

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104/125

📚Feathers So Vicious
✒️Liv Zander
⭐4/5
🌶️5/5

I can't in good conscience give this book 5⭐ because some scenes were unnecessary fucked up, but not gonna lie, I ate it up.

I went in blind, but definitely check TWs if picking this up - won't be for everyone.

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Those are the books that maybe started off interesting enough but then took a dive, but I was too deep to stop. Or ones that pissed me off so much that I had to finish just so I had the satisfaction of 1 ⭐-ing 😂

Not all my DNFs are necessarily a 1⭐ - sometimes I'm just not in the mood for the story

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Actually, I did read a book that will likely be in my top 10 reads of 2025, so not all bad!

Reading wrap up for October!

Have I been harsh with my ratings or did I just pick up a lot of shit books? 🤔

#storygraph #booksky #currentlyreading

103/125

📚The Travelling Cat Chronicles
✒️Hiro Arikawa
⭐3/5

Read this to complete a challenge. Not bad but not really my thing either.
I think a lot might've been lost in translation - it felt quite stilted.

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In Ali we trust!

102/125

📚My Friends
✒️Fredrik Backman
⭐5/5

I'm not crying, you're crying.

Fredrik's storytelling in this book was incredible. I never knew where it was going.
Beautifully written with wonderful characters. Definitely will end up in my top 10 reads of 2025.

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101/125

📚Nocticadia
✒️Keri Lake
⭐4/5
🌶️4/5

Perfect time of year for a gothic dark academia romance.
Really enjoyed the plot and myseries in this one.

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50 pages in and already cried multiple times.
Fredrik, what are you doing to me??

#currentlyreading My Friends by Fredrik Backman
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Side note, 100th book of 2025!

Read 55k in 2024 and 60k in 2023. I don't think I'll beat those numbers but I have been averaging over 100 pages per day which is what I tend to aim for!

100/125

📚Careless People
✒️Sarah Wynn-Williams

A trillion dollar company being shady? You don't say.

Hard to rate this one.
Although I knew FB was toxic, I didn't realise the extent of it. Am I shocked? No.
I do think the author is missing some self-awareness of her own complicity though.

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Reached my 2025 pages goal!

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99/125

📚A Photo Finish
✒️Elsie Silver
⭐3/5
🌶️3/5

My 10th Elsie Silver book! Not my favourite but still had a good time.

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Delicious is a good word for it!

98/125

📚Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
✒️V.E. Schwab
⭐4/5
🌶️1/5

Toxic lesbian vampires? Say less.

The pacing of the story felt very slow to me but I was hooked pretty much throughout. Beautifully written. Very similar vibes to Addie LaRue.

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97/125

📚Lies of my Monster
✒️Rina Kent
⭐1/5
🌶️4/5

Aaaaaand that's enough of that.

The FMC turned into an idiotic doormat - couldn't believe she was written by a female author tbh.

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96/125

📚Blood Of My Monster
✒️Rina Kent
⭐3/5
🌶️4/5

It's been a while since I've read a Mafia romance and the Mulan-esque premise drew me in.
It did lack in areas and the FMC's decision-making was a little flawed at best, but I gobbled it up nevertheless. Onto book 2!

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95/125

📚Fake Skating
✒️Lynn Painter
⭐3/5
🌶️1/5

Cute YA story but wish authors would stop using "Honey" as a pet name 🤢 gives me the ick every time.

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Is there a way to filter out ads and self-promotion posts on the #booksky feed?
All about authors getting that bag but it's getting a little much.

I want to see more reviews and actual recommendations!

Waiting for this one from the library!

Better or worse than Bride?

94/125

📚Metal Slinger
✒️Rachel Schneider
⭐1/5
🌶️2/5

Plot twists are only fun if they make sense.

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Reading wrap up for September!

#storygraph #currentlyreading
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93/125

📚The Devils
✒️Joe Abercrombie
⭐2/5

For a book that had a lot happening, nothing really happened.
I really wanted to like this, but it felt extremely repetitive. Half of the book was filler and at no point did it hook me.
Ended up skimming the last 30%.

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92/125

📚If It Makes You Happy
✒️Julie Olivia
⭐4/5
🌶️2/5

A cosy, small town romance with perfect autumnal vibes. It very much read like a 90s rom-com in the best possible way.
Nothing new or revolutionary but definitely hit the spot 👌

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91/125

📚Write Me For You
✒️Tillie Cole
⭐1/5

I was so ready for a sad story, but I couldn't get past the cringe.
The HEA chapters completely lost me and I ended up skipping them altogether.
For what was supposed to be a deep, profound story, everything was actually very surface-level.

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90/125

📚Blurred Lines
✒️Lauren Layne
⭐3/5
🌶️2/5

A cute little best friends to lovers number - one of my favourite tropes if done right. This one was okay but had a LOT of miscommunication which gets old fast.
It was a quick, easy read though, and it got me out of a reading slump.

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