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Empty Smiles
Empty Smiles | Katherine Arden
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New York Times bestselling author Katherine thrills once again in the finale to the critically acclaimed, spook-tacular quartet that began with Small Spaces. Its been three months since Ollie made a deal with the smiling man to save her friends lives and vanished without a trace. Coco, Brian, and Phil are beginning to worry if theyll ever see Ollie again when they find a mysterious note, possibly from Ollie, on a poster for a traveling carnival set to arrive in town. With their clue in hand, the friends attempt to track Ollie down at the carnival, but the sinister clowns running the show have alternate, horrifying plans and suddenly no one is safe. With only one way to get Ollie back and to save their town for good, Coco and Brian must play the smiling mans games one last time, but they only have until sunriseor game over.
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mrp27
Empty Smiles | Katherine Arden
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May #SeriesLove2023 wrap up.

Moving right along with the Little House series and one more mg series completed.

TheSpineView Well done! 11mo
Andrew65 Good progress, well done 👏👏👏 11mo
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mrp27
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#serieslove2023

The creep factor was high in this final installment of the Small Spaces series with a funhouse, clowns, and dolls to give anyone the heebie jeebies. Sadly, that was just about it. I was disappointed as there were no answers given to who The Smiling Man was or what motivated him. The conclusion felt too easy and came about too fast. Still, I enjoyed the series and overall it was creepy good fun.

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 That is one creepy cover! 11mo
TheSpineView Fantastic! 11mo
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ravenlee
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The first two books were the best. The third had pacing issues which became catastrophic in this one. It was going along just fine, and then it was just…over. The final 20 pages should have been about 50. The clowns were less creepy than I expected (good, I loathe clowns) and the Smiling Man was too (not good, he‘s the villain!). #52Books #meanttoreadlastyear

Librarybelle Somehow I missed that Katherine Arden was writing thriller stories! 1y
ravenlee @Librarybelle maybe it slipped under your radar because it‘s middle grade? I found the first accidentally, not realizing it was going to be a series. Then I had to wait for each one, then reread because I‘d forgotten everything! Luckily they‘re short. 1y
Bluebird Eek! The cover is terrifying! 1y
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Addison_Reads
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#SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

I started this MG series last year. This is the last one and personally, my favorite.

Arden does such a wonderful job of writing a creepy story that is appropriate for younger readers but also entertaining for readers of all ages.

I loved the carnival setting in this one and the scary clowns. Such a fun read!

Andrew65 That‘s excellent and well done on getting up to date on a series. 🎉🎉🎉 1y
TheSpineView Excellent work in finishing a series!📚📚📚 1y
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Skygoddess1
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The boyfriend and I went and saw this yesterday. What a creepy movie starring Sosie Bacon (Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick‘s daughter). Definitely creepy and I have so many thoughts now. #scarathlon #TeamMonsterMash +6 pts

StayCurious this poster will stay with me... 1y
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Larkken
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Week 2 total for #scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter
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Good week, with 216 words for the weekly game, five books read, and a few bingo lines, including this one for #bookspinbingo woohoo! The tagged book was the final book in a quick and easy and very creepy middle grade series. If anyone needs scary clowns in their life or bingo boards, this will work for you!

Clwojick Way to go! Great job! ☠ 2y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looks great!! 2y
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Jari-chan
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Soft spoilers ahead.

Best part of the series, if you ask me! Of course, all were good, but I especially enjoyed this one pretty much. How much those kids have grown! How dear they grew to me and how proud I am of them! Also, Arden managed to finish her series almost perfectly. It's a heart-warming ending, but if she decides to continue - no problem.

Warning: if you suffer from Coulrophobia don't read.

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Rachiiebookdragon
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jlhammar
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Finale to the Small Spaces quartet. The first book remains my favorite. The ending kind of snuck up on me with this one. Felt a bit rushed. Still a fun middle grade series if you are in the mood for something cozy and mildly spooky.

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SoManyBooksNotEnoughTime
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I absolutely loved this series and I'm pretty sad it's over. It definitely will be disappointing not having another one of these books to look forward to next summer. This one was probably my least favorite of the three but I still really liked it. I recommend the whole series. Read them in order but here's the list of my favorites to least favorites in the series:
1) Dark Waters
2) Small Spaces
3) Dead Voices
4) Empty Smiles

RosePressedPages I agree, this one was my least favorite as well. But I also still really loved the series and am hoping Katherine Arden writes something new! (edited) 2y
BookwormM Are these short horror stories like scary stories to tell in the dark? 2y
SoManyBooksNotEnoughTime @BookwormM no, it's a series, so all 4 books tie together, they're more similar to Goosebumps books I'd say 2y
SoManyBooksNotEnoughTime @MadelineMcCrae me too! hopefully she will soon! 2y
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jlhammar
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Wednesday #bookmail! Look forward to finishing this cute and creepy middle grade series.

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ravenlee
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Damn it. I‘ve been reading the Small Spaces books, waiting for the last one to come out (9 August) - only to find out it‘s clowns. (It says sinister clowns, but that‘s just redundant) Now I have to decide if it‘s worth suffering clowns to get to the ending. Grrr.

LibrarianRyan I‘m the opposite. I saw this was book 4 and have to move the others higher up my TBR 2y
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