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Published in '19, I found the comparisons to both The Blair Witch Project & Midsommar very inaccurate. I have a comparison in mind that feels much more accurate, but it would be too much of a spoiler to share it. Aspiring filmmaker Alice has had a lifelong interest with a village where approximately 900 inhabitants disappeared after police were called due to the discovery of a gruesome crime scene. Alice has a personal tie to the village & she

Started this one last night and now about halfway through. Good thing I'm reading it during the daytime because..*shudder*

The present day exploration of the town had the tone of a horror movie. Walking through abandoned buildings while ignoring the strange things happening around them. Typical denial until it is too late. By the end of the book we find out what happened to the villagers. It wasn't much of a surprise, and I feel that if people had looked a little harder they would have found them. I did enjoy the writing style and felt it was interesting.

A page turner - creepy and a twist ending - and did I say creepy - I could see and feel the village and fear - past and present - really enjoyed this one!
Minor typos/timeline mistake - nothing that ruined the story for me -
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#ThinkPositiveBePositive
As always - thanks for the post @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks - it makes me look at the day in a different way when I start with your positive posts!

So my post today is a reminder that it's all about perspective -

tagging anyone who wants to post some positive vibes today!

make a great day everyone - 🙂

I suppose I should start posting reviews 🤣

First book of 2022 complete and it was a winner! I love A good lost village story, especially if there are sinister happenings going on. 😈

I think this book matches the picture perfectly!

#Jumpstart2022 #NYWD #aestheticallymatched #bookspinbingo @monalyisha @MaleficentBookDragon @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @Lizpixie

Oh my goodness Chelle thank you so much for this amazing #LittleChristmasSwap package!! I‘m so excited for the books (incl the one “for buggy” 😜), I love these sweets, and the high voltage bones coffee addition is, as you know, perfect 😁. Such a wonderful start to a day off 😄😄 (oh and the card did say that this was for Little Christmas — I just hadn‘t opened it yet when I posted 😏)

Thank you @bookish_wookish for hosting this fun swap! ♥️🎄

After the impressive, but emotionally damaging nonfiction books I read I needed something in my "comfort" genre.

This creepy ghost story of a haunted town is a low pick for me. While I loved how the story was unveiled between the present-day documentary and the past journals and letters, there were some open ended aspects that left me a little unfulfilled.

The descriptions of the town were very atmospheric and scary and really make the story.

It's tradition in my house to have Chinese on New Year's Eve but we had a sick boy last night so we switched to today. No company over this year, just the family but there's going to be lots of food and it smells great! Listening to my first #NewYearWhoDis pick while I cook away!

@monalyisha

Atmospheric and dark. There‘s a lot to like here, and while some choices struck me as odd, I really loved this book. Definitely a great choice if you like ghost town stories.

It started slow but picked up. A description inside says it‘s Blair Witch meets Midsommar—but I wouldn‘t go that far. What this book is about, is how mental illness can end in tragedy, when it is untreated and seen as a bad, shameful, even evil—thing—especially in womxn🥀If you are suffering, please know that is okay to not be okay, it is okay to get help and there is no shame in it. There is always someone who will listen without judgement.

Riggs and our latest book haul🖤

…as if we needed more😂

This is a solid 4 star for me. Good concept, well constructed, eerie atmosphere, good flow. The characterisation felt a little paint by numbers. The exception being Elsa, but she is in the 'past' timeline and we spend most of our time in the 'present'. Everyone in the present is a little obvious for lack of a better description. But not in a way that would make you put the book down. Well worth a read, won't blow your mind.

I have mixed feelings. It‘s a quick read, entertaining enough and I liked how the ending surprised me! I thought I knew where it was going but was wrong. However, I feel like this book could have used more oomph. It was trying to comment on mental illness and how woman have been treated over time but I don‘t think it did enough. It got started but landed flat. Didn‘t particularly care for the characters but the atmosphere was cool. 👇🏻

@MaleficentBookDragon Did you secretly know I was your match? This list was practically made for me! So excited to see Jennifer McMahon and Darcy Coates on here but I think I'm most excited for Lost Village. Sounds SO good!

I've already read 3 listed and the only one here I have waiting is Survive the Night so I'm off to start queuing up holds! Hope my list works for you too 😊

Great pick @monalyisha

#newyearwhodis

My phone died, or at least it suddenly started keeping a charge for all of 30 min on Thursday, and this has really cut in to my audiobook time!! 🙀 however, today I finally managed to finish the tagged book about descendants of a mysteriously abandoned mining town going back to film a documentary at the site. I‘m trying, #teamslaughter! One day left for #scarathlon, and I‘ll do what I can with the brand new phone 📱 🎃

Thank you so much for the #allhallowsreadswap @ulrichyumiodd 🍁already diving in to the first read & its creeeepy! 🧙🏻‍♀️happy Halloween 🎃 @MaleficentBookDragon

So, I‘m glad that this book wasn‘t as scary as I expected it to be. It‘s more of a mystery with a serious creep factor. I really enjoy it and found it addicting. It kind of reminds me of Limetown. But more realistic. 🌟🌟🌟🌟 #outstandingoctober

This was a great horror read, a small group of folks comes to remote village to document the small village if silvershern that is a ghost town. But has many secrets behind it. Well done with lots of surprised throughout. Loved the narrator and the back and forth through time to tell the whole story. 4.5 stars

This was my #BookSpin for #Bingo or my Double Spin it was #9. 5pts for #TeamSlaughter and 140 pts for #OutstandingOctober

So I just had a small medical scare and it suggests to me that I have to do a better job of working out and getting more exercise in my life. So I am gonna do more #BFC... I'd like a partner. Doesn't need to be in person just someone I can text and say just walked X Miles and support each other. Any takers ?

@BookNAround Thank you so much, for my belated birthday card. It's very sweet of you.

Next Up for #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon2021

I have seen mixed reviews for this book, but it hit the creepy mark for me. I highly recommend the audio if you pick it up.
In 1959, all of the residents of Silvertjarn, except a dead body hanging on a pole and an infant, found alive, disappear. Now, Alice and four other documentary crew members return to the old mining village to find out what happened. The story unfolds flipping back and forth between 1959 and now.

Walk on the treadmill between small group classes this morning! 😊 #OutstandingOctober

Thank you to my non-litsy friend for the bag of birthday books. I‘m so excited to read them.

I‘m a wimp and don‘t do scary or creepy often. Lots of mixed reviews so I‘m going in cautiously without super high expectations. 😀

Time to start a new book to read while at work

Here are my #bookspin and #doublespin books for the month. For the first time in a while I‘m actually confident that I can get through these this month 😅 We‘ll see how the rest of the TBR goes though...

Finally got my bingo card set up—I had to finish my book first so I could immediately cross it off. 😆

For anyone looking for a book for the #charactersarefrenemies prompt (#booked2021) this one is an excellent choice. The friendship issues plaguing MCs Emmy and Alice are one of the main storylines.

I was expecting a book more atmospheric and creepy, and this didn‘t quite live up to those expectations, but it‘s a great book for fall!

#BookSpin #DoubleSpin #OctiberReads @TheAromaofBooks

Perfect way to start off my weekend. 🥰

Checked this book out from my library . . . twice. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Maybe that means I‘ll actually read it!

I haven't done any reviews in aaaaaaages so I'll try to get caught up with my book challenges for the year. I'm not mobile enough to take creative pictures, so they all have to be on top of my microwave that has been moved for ease of access to my table. :)

This was creeeeepyyyyy! If you love movies like The Blair Witch Project and Trollhunter, this book is for you. The rural Swedish setting and sense of tension are so well done.

TRY THIS ONE IF YOU‘RE IN THE MOOD FOR A CULT HORROR NOVEL

New apartment, New city, New library. Hello, Staten Island!

Billed as Blair Witch meets Midsommar, this is not a graphic slasher-horror novel. Instead, there is a quiet menace the permeates each page, so the reader turns each one on high alert. It‘s creepy, atmospheric, sad, but brilliant. I do think that if you liked Laws of the Skies, you‘ll enjoy this, too. It has a similar tension to it - a slow relentless building of fear and paranoia then BOO! I loved it. But maybe don‘t read it at night.

This one was spooky! Some questions were left unanswered but overall a good read.

Thanks for the tag @TheLudicReader . @DebbieGrillo wanna play?
1. 5 homes.
2. This one. Close to my parents and very centrally located.
3. Listening to my dog's relaxed breathing when she sleeps.

The people of an entire village disappeared in 1959 except for a baby, and the mystery has never been solved. Alice is determined to learn more and brings a group to the village to investigate for her documentary, but creepy things start happening. This did have a good creep factor, and I liked both past and present storylines, though I‘m not sure the conclusion really pays off. A fun read, though.

Dark, creepy, & abandoned ghost town. I read this almost entirely in one sitting because I couldn't put it down. The timeline moves back & forth between a modern-day documentary film crew & the months leading up to the disappearance of the townspeople. I loved incredibly atmospheric setting & propelled through the plot by the addicting narrative. I couldn't read fast enough & putting it down was NOT an option. A good, quick, & creepy read.

No doubt there will be a movie or limited TV series made of this book. It has all the elements of a pot boiler that would appeal to viewers. But I thought the ending was weak and overall the prose seemed overly dramatic and somewhat purple. It left me feeling manipulated in the same way that Gone Girl did. Three and a half stars, and that‘s generous.

I received this from NetGalley. I was really interested in figuring out what happened to a whole village that disappeared, but once it started getting into the religious and how the pastor was changing things, I pretty much realized what happened. I did like the characters and the way the writer showed their emotions and brought the village alive. I would recommend this to anyone that likes horror.

Finishing this up tonight! 💕📚💕 It's even spookier than I expected! 😱😨 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #roxas

This was very creepy & atmospheric. A film crew, some of whom have ties to the town, arrive to start filming a documentary about a ghost town in Sweden. Nearly 900 people vanished without a trace 60 years ago & they hope to find out why. The present day storyline was good but the petty bickering got on my nerves a few times. The past storyline was better. It was sad and frightening and compelling. I was glad, yet horrified, to learn the truth ⬇️

#WeekendReads
1- tagged
2- Stillhouse Lake
3- Marmee March, Molly Weasley, Mrs Morland (Northanger Abbey)
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📚 10 books read
📚 1 Nonfiction
📚 2 #BOTM
📚 6 #ARCs
📚 9 books by women
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