Welcome to Litsy!

Picked this up on a whim yesterday, and it had me hooked.

To be fair it dragged in the third half of the book, and a lot of the events could have been summarized in a chapter or two. But, towards the end the book picked up the pace again and the very ending was extremely satisfying.

The gothic horror delivered well enough, although Italy isn't really ideal for a “scary book“ Maybe that's just me.

Continuing on a bad track of books not for me. I thought this was going to be a thriller/horror but instead it‘s a police procedural with a truly unlikeable protagonist. #hailthebail #dnf

I haven‘t read any of these nominees. I like voting in the Goodreads Choice Awards every year but I don‘t know if I can vote this year if I haven‘t read any of the books. I guess it depends on what the other categories are. I still might vote anyway even if I haven‘t read any of the books. I‘ll just vote for whatever books sound good to me if I haven‘t read them. If it‘s something I‘ve read then I‘ll vote for it.

This book explores 3 adult sisters as their father has just died, looking at their current, somewhat strained relationships and their childhood. All this in the setting of a cli-fi, climate change impacted world as well as maybe something odd going on. I wish the oddness had been explored a bit more, as I feel it would have helped build tension to the ending, but this was good.

Been meaning to read this one for a long time—for obvious cinematic reasons.

If the writing wasn‘t so good, this would be a Pan. Descriptions and sentiments are wonderful, but the story is a mess of extraneous details irrelevant to the plot, too many meaningless background characters, and a useless protagonist. Confusing without being mysterious, ending did not feel earned.

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Another #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent pick from October—I wanted to read this because L.M. Montgomery highly recommended it in her journals. LMM loved ghost stories, so when she described this one in particular, I hunted it down and added it to our list. I‘m a coward about scary stories, so I read it in broad daylight—and didn‘t find it particularly scary. Then the night after I read it, I woke up in the middle of the night, ⤵️

This was the second creepy house book I read in October! It wasn‘t really YA but read like it—I‘m not sure how I feel about that, but I did really enjoy the book. I liked the characters and was fascinated with piecing together the various clues about the history of the house and the Starling family. And I loved the role that legends and storytelling and dreams played in the plot. However, there were a few writing quirks that got on my nerves. ⤵️

Wow what a great read! Loved the story!

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:
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Enjoy!