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Gissy
Cackle | Rachel Harrison
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Mehso-so

October2025 Book#9 and last book read this month

Beautiful cover and loves the paperback edition too. Unpopular opinion. I didn‘t like much this stir. It was absurd to me🤷🏽‍♀️2.5/3⭐️

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Ten | Gretchen McNeil
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October 2025 Book #7

This is a YA retelling of And Then There were none. It was pretty good for a YA novel. 3/3.5⭐️

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October 2025 Book #6

First book in a series. I really liked this story. It has obviously the murder, the mystery surrounding this murder, family drama, romance, secrets and our main character who is untraditional in his methods to investigate. It was a fast pace. Trying to find the hardcover editions in secondhand. I found the first 3 books 3.8/4⭐️

Gissy #Read2025 @DieAReader
#BookSpinBingo #22 free space #ISpyBingo (roses well…those are rose petals😜)
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The Hacienda | Isabel Caas
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October 2025 Book #4

This was so good and I don‘t think I need to talk much about this story, many persons have read it. So atmospheric, gothic, and with an attempt of a forbidden love😳I read my physical copy with the audiobook and it was fantastic. 4⭐️

Gissy GoodReads #52AroundTheYear #52 sunset vibes on cover 3h
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The Vanishing | Wendy Webb
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October Book #3

In the past a seance was conducted and something went wrong, a real spirit was unleashed. Present day Julia accepts a job offer from a stranger to take care of an elderly woman. At her arrival, something is familiar to Julia. Mrs Sinclair is confusing her with another woman. Then, strange things happens and Julia feels that she is trapped in that house, in some way she feels knows the house and some objects seem familiar⬇️

Gissy (Cont) but how if she has never been in that house. A great secret is revealed and the novel wrntvdow. It was unrealistic for me that secret and the seance little bit dramatic. But what liked of this novel an author‘s writing style is how she create that ambience. It is like you are walking slowly, and you feel you are seeing through the eyes of the character. I will continue reading some other novels I own by this author. (edited) 4h
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October 2025 Book #2

Third book in the series. This time the mystery takes place in a museum. Jewels were stolen and the mommy to transported for the exhibition was replaced by another body who seemed died recently. Who is the person they found in the sarcophagus? And when the mommy was replaced? Clara will use her background of chemistry studies to help clarify this mystery. Some confused details but in general I liked the mystery 3.5/3.8⭐️

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Wild Is the Witch | Rachel Griffin
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Mehso-so

October Book #1

Iris hides that she is a witch. When she is frustrated, she writes curses not intended to happen, she destroyed them at the end. But one day writes a curse for Pike after he made a comment. A bird took the paper where she wrote the curse. Now she and Pike are working together to find the bird because if it dies, the curse could destroy Pike and the region🙄It was so boring 🥱 2.5/3⭐️

Gissy #Read2025 @DieAReader
#BookSpinBingo #9 season vibes #ISpyBingo (it is like a bouquet to me😜) so pretty the cover and under dust jacket but boring.
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My choice for the “dedication you loved“ #ISpyBingo square.

A rather harrowing middle-grade memoir about growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, which honestly sounds as awful as any Western propaganda portrayed it. His family has secrets it's dangerous to ask about, and they worry he won't be “useful“ to the state--until they discover the drawings he made while sleeping under a table. The whimsical pictures break up the trauma somewhat. cont.

willaful The story ends on an implausible optimistic note and his next book seems to show that to be false indeed. But I'm eager to read it and perhaps find out more about how he made it to the U.S. (His family history is quite interesting, btw. This is the wikipedia page of his nephew, an actor and the son of the brother in the dedication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Yelchin )

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CSeydel I remember Anton Yelchin‘s tragic death - he was so talented. I vaguely knew of Eugene Yelchin as an illustrator, but I did not realize that they were related! 13h
TheAromaofBooks Great review!! 11h
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OriginalCyn620 Yay! And that‘s a great review! 10h
julieclair Super review! This sounds like a fascinating story. 5h
willaful @julieclair and very familiar in some scary ways.... 😬 4h
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Septiembre 2025 Book #6

I wish I could have that cover, my copy is the ugly tv show edition😝I expected more due to the hipped but still it was creepy. It gives that nervousness if they are going to make it to go back. I want to continue the series but not in that ugly tv edition. I haven‘t see the tv show, have you? Sometimes tv shows or movies mix more that one book, that‘s why I will like to read book 2 first. 3.8

Gissy The reason I gave it 3.8⭐️it‘s that at some point it was a little bit repetitive. The ending is a cliffhanger, at least for me.

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#BookSpinBingo #12 wanted to read it#ISpyBingo (lamp) @TheAromaOfBooks
#CoverChallenge (fokiages) YouTuber @Booksandlala
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TheAromaofBooks TV/movie covers should be illegal 😂 20h
Gissy @TheAromaofBooks Agree☺️ 20h
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 12h
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Septiembre 2025 Book #4

This one is from my #OUBC subscription, with me since 2022😳Second book I read by this author and once again, I enjoyed the story. Not a pleasant one but as the author said “we should never forget the lessons we learned from WWII”
Story is about two sisters that separated during the war. But then they will reunite. They changed so much during that period they were apart, but the war circumstances will help them to⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) Part of the story will described characters life in the Warsaw ghetto💔😢It has hard, emotional parts. Eighty years after, I still ask myself, why? Author hope that novels like this one “will reinforce our resolve to do better by our human beings.” 4/4.5⭐️

#Read2025 @DieAReader
#BookSpinBingo #19 (subscription) #ISpyBingo (luggage)

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