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A good installment in the October Daye series with a lot of unexpected revelations and the usual amount of faerie chaos.

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#ISpyBingo (author's name in red)
#PumpkabooHunt (large)
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An excellent installment in the Vorkosigan series, in which Miles encounters the seedier side of the cryogenics industry.

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#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple
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#ISpyBingo (orange title)
#PumpkabooHunt (large)
#AfterDarkBingo (corporate dragon)
#BodyCountBingo (meddling kids are useless)
#GottaCatchEmAllSpooky (Gimmighoul: greed)

I don't get the hype. The translation was clunky, & it's repetitive & overexplained. Every single story involves women sacrificing themselves and their own lives & interests for others.

I guess that's what I get for breaking my guideline by reading a male author who doesn't come very highly recced by people I trust. And for reading SF by a non-SF author.

It did fill the swap shelf prompt in #urc2025 #URC though! @Faranae
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An adorable novella by an author local to my area. Demi finds themselves in an unusual predicament when a sneeze demon possesses their cat. I definitely enjoyed this read. #ColoradoAuthor #LGBTQIA #Cat

I was finally able to fill one of the more difficult #52bookclub categories, “Author debut in second half of 2024.“ I've read a number of novels by Andrew Pyper, but this is his debut under the pseudonym Mason Coile.

This short novel is a spooky haunted house story featuring AI “monsters“. I didn't enjoy it as much as the other Pyper works I've read, but as it was set on Hallowe'en day, it was a good one to read this week.

A low pick. Inspired by Le Fanu's Carmilla, this graphic novel set in 1990's NYC features mysterious deaths, vampires and Chinese folklore. It was a good quick read for Hallowe'en night.

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#GottaCatchEmAll (Morgrem: Character has a fringe)
#Spookoween @TheSpineView

This thriller, about an FBI agent hunting a serial killer, kept me reading late into the night!

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#AfterDarkBingo #BodyCountBingo #GottaCatchEmAllSpooky
#Spookoween @TheSpineView
#31by31 @Catsandbooks
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#HalloweenAtoZReadathon @Texreader
#RedTaylorsVersion @Emilymdxn
#LongNights @Bookwormjillk

I had read this many, many years ago and reread it just now. I'm not sure I liked it any better second time around. There were interesting sci-fi ideas but I found the plot dragged with its inconsistent pacing.

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#192025 #1980 @Librarybelle
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#gottacatchemall (18. Vespiquen: Yellow cover)

I felt so-so about the first book in the Scholomance series but I decided to give this second book a try, especially since it fit a couple of challenge prompts that I was finding hard to fill. I enjoyed this installment more, perhaps because I'm finally warming up to the characters.

I loved this installment of the Shardlake series, set in the later years of Henry VIII's reign. It's an excellent historical mystery with great characters (both real and fictional) and lots of political intrigue. I'm looking forward to discussing with the #ShardlakeSeriesBR group. @dabbe