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Last book for the month, finished yesterday. Here's my updated board for #bookspingbingo I'll make a list/board for Nov but with travel idk. @TheAromaofBooks

#23 FREE

3.5 🌟
A retelling of The Great God Pan. Although I never read it, im thankful the author included a description at the end. Enough gore & horror to satisfy me, but I wasn't overly in love with the characters. The pace felt a bit scattered. Overalll a solid October read.

Midweek #wrapup . Updated bingo board soon. 3 weeks left to prep my trip & feel nothing done besides my visa.

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5 - Mary Shelley Club 3 🌟
Too YA for me but there are still plenty of twists. So many horror references just like My Heart is a Chainsaw.

19 - Audiobook - The Return 2 🌟
Wanted to enjoy this, the pace was good 3/4ths. Then chaos & reckless writing. Did not enjoy the characters in the slightest.

Soft pick.
Traumatized young woman returns to a house full of family secrets &a supernatural presence.This is the plot of many books. It‘s a reworking of another book, The Great God Pan. the blurb says it‘s Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out. it is nothing like Knives Out, except for the 🏳️‍🌈
The audio performed by Megan Trout was stellar, the story flowed easily &characters were entertaining despite being trapped in a familiar plot.
#20in4

About halfway through this after taking down my Christmas decorations, doing some cleaning & finished my favorite glass project yet (who doesn‘t want a murder knife mirror?)

Plot is kinda ridiculous, but there have been some spooky moments.

I really enjoyed this one. I devoured it. Very different, but yet almost reminds me of The Haunting of Bly Manor.

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3.75 stars-This book was pretty darn good. I loved most of the characters. I wish some of the “villains“ weren't so over the top though. It was enjoyable. But not the greatest writing in the world. I did like Helen and her story and I LOVED Bryony.

So far creepy and odd.

Bit of a slow starter with the kind of real-world tension that makes me want to walk away in shared discomfort, only to very vibrantly turn into the kind of horror Kate Alice Marshall does best. Very worth the read.

As someone who regularly judges a book by its cover, the creepy house on the cover really drew me in. I could tell that this was going to be a creepy and atmospheric read. Based partially on Manchen's 1894 novella, The Great God Pan, These Fleeting Shadows flips the script to make this almost a feminist retelling. Instead of focusing on the "doctor", this book focuses on the female victims, giving them a voice.