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A little late but here's May. The 4th book was Ghost Wall (2.5 stars).

@Blueberry

A dark love story, set in a haunted house.
Enjoyed it for a “change” of genre 😂

The kind of horror I can cope with! This was at times just a bit bonkers but I actually really enjoyed the story of the adult siblings regrouping to sell their parents house and unearthing generational trauma along the way. A blame it on Litsy from when it was first published I finally picked up on my indie bookshop crawl at the end of last year

A slow-build Gothic novel that took me in a direction I wasn‘t expecting it to go in.

Book 45/60, Page 15,094/18,000 #read2025 @DieAReader

May wrap courtesy of StoryGraph. This was definitely a heavy essay/memoir month, but I managed to get some fiction in as well. Diavola stands out as one of the best horror books I've read in a while, and it was my only 5⭐ read of the month.

There aren‘t many surprises in this ghost story. Pretty early on, we know what happened in the past, and how it has affected a family‘s lives whose ancestors committed unspeakable crimes. In Ms Sandeen‘s capable hands, I didn‘t care; she writes so well, and creates such deep characters!

With her Chicago life in ruins, Jermaine Barker accepts job offer from the Duchovny family that seems too good to be true and of course it is — breaking a curse.

There‘s a reason I don‘t read ghost stories but I couldn‘t stop reading this book. It scared me, but when seen from Nell‘s perspective it seemed almost cozy which was just plain crazy and not true which was even scarier. For such a short novel it packs a wallop. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Typical Hendrix weirdness. Horror, but not too scary. (Unless of course you have a puppet/doll phobia. If so, this one will do you in.) A wacky, entertaining, spooky book.

To 8 year old Bela, her family is her world. There's mommy, Daddy, and Grandma. But there is also other mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day:Can I go inside your heart ?