pickWOW! This book! I don‘t know where to begin. This is certainly not your typical haunted house tale. And I really didn‘t expect to laugh hysterically at the end. That being said, this is not at all a funny book. It‘s horrifying and gory and bloody and mystifying. Unreliable narrator is an understatement and actually does the narrator a disservice. You‘ll have to read it to find out for yourself what is real and what is reality.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yesterday I talked about my most disappointing reads of 2024 now let‘s talk about my favorite reads of the year. I was in a slump most of the year but I did read a few books that I really enjoyed. And apparently 2024 was the year of horror/thrillers.
https://wildwoodreads.com/2024/12/29/the-best-books-of-2024/
❤️❤️❤️Aletheia thank you so much for this surprise!! I love it- and am so grateful for our friendship and your thoughtfulness- it means the world to me!
pickCatching up on posting! I've had this ARC, from my days as a bookstore owner, for something like 15 years. My husband read it back then and recommended it, but I only just now got to it. It's fantastic. So atmospheric and nice and long.
so-soA group of friends decides that an abandoned haunted manor, full of the ghosts of women buried alive, is the perfect place for a wedding party. The house agrees.
I really wanted more out of this. At the end of every chapter, I felt like it needed to be twice as long. I needed more set up of the friends, more set up for the climax. The descriptions were visceral & unsettling, & would have been better suited for a more gradual horror.🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
so-soWell... Why were these people friends in the first place? They all seemed to hate each other, so I didn't really care about them. Maybe the horror in this was too subtle, and I might should've tried to find a translation to get into this a bit better. Next time maybe.
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pickAnother great gothic from Harrow. Starling House is a living entity, sheltering monsters initially created by Eleanor Starling, and born out of her fear. The house has lured and killed successive guardians. Arthur is determined to break the curse and die killing the monsters. Opal, who lost her mother to the curse, is inescapably drawn to the House and wants to save Arthur. Explores, very well, concepts of addiction to fear and ideals. Great read.
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Enjoyed visiting the Starling House and meeting some of the good folks of Eden.
Since these will be the last 2 months I'll probably post them one after another, instead of bi-monthly like I did in the past. And with that out of the way, it's time for #2024bookbracket. Nov. has been my most active month with 14 books in total. A lot of it is due to reading Narnia novels, but also because I was aiming to hit my yearly goal.
(the template is by @/CSeydel)
#bookbracket2024
#ReadingBracket2024
#TopRead2024
