so-soThis book was ok but I kind of expected more from it, way semi bored through most of it, more thriller less drama was needed.. 3/5
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The Upstairs Room | 
so-soThis book was ok but I kind of expected more from it, way semi bored through most of it, more thriller less drama was needed.. 3/5
These two #ThrillerThursday debuts are my last & current 🎧 - both female authors & ~10 hours.
The Room Upstairs is a 👻 thriller, focused on a family who move into a house that appears haunted. More sex than ghosts 🤔 and probably best as an audio, but entertaining while commuting and cleaning.
The Other Wife is a psychological thriller about a bride-to-be and a mother-in-law from hell...so-far-so good.
#readingresolutions @Jess7
Sunday nights are for picking next week‘s audiobooks.
#SpookyOctober #day1 #OctoberTBR Every time I make a monthly TBR I end up reading maybe two off the pile,max.Hopefully October will be different,I have a good selection of Aussie crime(Force Of Nature, And Fire Came Down), English mysteries(TroubleWithGoats&Sheep,YearOfTheLadybirds), a retelling of a Greek myth(SongOfAchilles)fantasy(Godsgrave)western(TheSistersBrothers)& spooky books(TheUpstairsRoom,LadyAudleysSecret,SkeletonCrew)HappySpooktober!
My current bedside stack of books. I've started both The Girls & Her Royal Spyness but just wasn't feeling them at the time. Which one of these should I read next? The Upstairs Room is a ghost story, The Girls is a thriller, Carry On Jeeves is golden age crime, Two For Sorrow is historical crime & Her Royal Spyness is cozy crime. I'll link them in the comments, I need help my fellow Littens! When you have such a huge TBR, you can get overwhelmed😳
pickThis was an inbetween a pick and a so-so for me.
The writing is great. The creepy ghost story bits are brilliant. The relationship parts got on my nerves a bit - they seemed to take away from the central haunted house story.
The author has potential though and I will look out for her next book.
#HelpMeChoose🤷🏻♀️ I still can't sleep & I'm getting a headache from fatigue. I can't think about what to read next so help me out please? My fellow Littens? Should I read
A Darker Shade Of Magic
Two For Sorrow
Nevernight
Wimmera or
The Upstairs Room?
#abundanceofriches #allreadandnosleepmakelizacrazycrazylady
Today's #BookMail is two pre-orders & a back order. Wimmera was sold out so I had to wait 2weeks for a restock, Deadfall is the new Alex Cooper novel from Linda Fairstein(a former SVU prosecutor in Manhattan) & The Upstairs Room is a new ghost story by a debut author about a house in London & a family that believes the room upstairs is haunted.
pickDark and disturbing. A selection of emotionally isolated individuals, all trying to navigate their dissatisfaction with life. Unhappy with work, their relationships, their place in the world. And a presence in their home that clearly doesn't want them there. Eleanor goes through the biggest change, finally standing up for her health, her sanity and her family. I'm going to be keeping an eye out for creepy lines of pebbles for a good few weeks....
pickThis was definitely a cover pick for me. Scary stories are not my thing, if I'd read the blurb more carefully I never would have picked it up. I found the creepy goings-on genuinely unsettling, leave-the-lights-on unsettling (NB. I am a complete coward!) and Murray-Browne uses even well-established ideas to chilling effect. Where she comes into her own is the clever way she enhances these with the real concerns and anxieties of her characters 👇
I've experienced sleep paralysis as long as I can remember, usually during times of stress or if my sleep pattern has been disturbed for other reasons (thank you, changing seasons!) so it's not particularly fun to read a character experiencing it, especially alongside lots of other creepy goings-on!
