Hi everyone! It’s that time to vote for our February book picks! All the options except for one of the thriller picks, The Winter People, are available on KU! Voting will end on 1/31. Each member gets two votes, one for fantasy and one for thriller/horror

Happy new year everyone 🎉🎉🥳🎊🍾

Our fantasy book pick for January will be The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

Our thriller picks had a tie so I guess we will read both! Twenty Years Later and The Life We Bury!

Please join my discord where we can hold discussions! Happy reading 😋

Hi everyone! Here are the books I’m thinking of reading in January! Per usual, we will pick one fantasy and one thriller. Each member can vote twice, one for each genre! Voting will end on the 31st

Hi everyone happy Monday! I unfortunately did not have a very productive reading week this past week :( I have yet to start out fantasy book pick House of Salt and Sorrows since I am in the middle of the faithful of the fallen series at the moment.

Fthebuffor our Horror book pick of the month The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, I unfortunately DNF'd this at 56% on audio. the audio book was not necessarily bad, I think the writing style is just not for me. I did like how all the POVs had different voice actors so it was easy to keep track that way, however, I was just not engaged with the story at all. I could not hold my focus no matter how hard I tried. the premise sounds very interesting and unique, however, I cannot tell you a single thing that happened in this book and I spent SEVERAL hours trying to understand. This book gets a lot of praise so I am definitely in the minority but the pacing and style of this book is just not for me!

I would love to hear your guys thoughts in the comments on discord :) Happy reading everyone and I hope you have an amazing week!

The 11.5 books that I read in December!

Horror book pick: Sleep Tight 1⭐️

I read this at the very beginning of the month and did not enjoy this one AT ALL. It had so many elements that I should have loved but I don’t think it was executed well. It also wasn’t scary at all. I literally couldn’t tell you a single thing that happened in this book even right after I finished it nonetheless NOW. Was very disappointed since I wanted to be able to discuss this with you guys but I literally have nothing more to say about this one :/

Fantasy book pick: Malice 4.5⭐️

• I had an absolute blast with this! Definitely for my seasoned classic fantasy lovers out there! It took me like 40% of the book to actually get used to all the characters and understand where the story is going but wow that last portion of the book was action packed and insane. So many twists and turns. Filled with battles if you’re into that. I immediately jumped into book 2!

All other books

• Valor (currently reading but almost done) the second book in the faithful and the fallen and I’m absolutely loving where it’s going

• The Eyes are the Best Part 4 ⭐️

• Maeve Fly 2⭐️

• Fallen City 3.5 ⭐️

• Slewfoot 3.5 ⭐️

• What Hunger 3.5 ⭐️

• The Teacher 2 ⭐️

• The Ex 3⭐️

• The Wife Upstairs (currently reading will finish tonight)

• The Amberglow Candy Store 2⭐️

DNF

• The Night that Finds Us All

Hi everyone! It is time to vote for which thriller and fantasy book we will be reading in December!There will be six books in total to choose from, 3 thriller and 3 fantasy. You are allowed to vote once in each category! Voting will end on the 27th. Make sure to join my discord where we can discuss the book picks!

Let's talk about the 9 books that I read in October!

October fantasy book pick: Wild Revernece by Rebecca Ross

I gave this one 4.25 stars. I absolutely love Rebecca Ross's writing. so atmospheric and beautiful. I loved the characters ad their love story so so much. This is a prequel to divine rivals duology but i dont think you need to read the original duology before or read this prior! This can totally be read as a standalone.

October horror book pick: Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly

I gave this book 3 stars. Part of my dissapointment with this book was my assumption that this was going to be absolutely horrifying. This book definitely did have its dark and gory moments, however, THIS IS NOT A HORROR. this is a thriller book through and through. I did wish we had read something more scary and creepy for October... if you go into this with different expectations than I did, then maybee you would enjoy this more

Quick recap of all the other books that I read

• Do You Remember by Freida McFadden: 3 stars this was fun but nothing special

• Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson: 3 stars I was hooked the entire time but ending was anticlimactic and boring

• Red City by Marie Lu: 5 STARS AMAZING THE BEST BOOK IVE READ ALL YEAR

• Long Time Gone by Charlie Donlea: 3.75 stars this is a great mystery/thriller. always solid reads from this author

• The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager: 3 stars this was just okay. Felt dragged out but I like the ending. also felt a bit YA

• Brother by Ania Ahlborn: 4.5 stars WOOWW this book is actually insane I'm obsessed. one of the darkest books Ive ever read

• The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden: 3 stars this was just okay. fun time but not memorable

DNF

• Alchemised by Sen Lin Yu: I got to around 350pages with the audio book and the world building was too intricate and detailed to the point where the story wasn't progressing and every sentence was the most descriptive sentence about every little thing and I just could not do it anymore. I Never finished reading the HP series and did not read manacled.The writing wasn't "bad." in fact, it was quite beautiful. just the way the story was being told and the plot not progressing a the pace I wanted it to was disappointing.

The November books will beeeee….

Malice by John Gwynne for fantasy and Sleep Tight by JH Markert for thriller/horror!!

please join the discord so we can all discuss!! I’m sooooo excited

Hi everyone it’s that time of the month to get in your votes for our November fantasy and thriller picks! I have five fantasy and five thriller/horror books to choose from. Voting will close 10/30 and books will be announced on the 31st!

Hello everyone! Real quickly before we get into what I read this past week, my TikTok account was hacked! I know they Have been going live to try to sell (ugly) jewelry and making posts about it. I’m not sure if they are DMing people but please do not purchase anything or click on any links. I am working on getting it back but TikTok has been radio silent so I’m not sure when I’ll get it back but I’m doing everything I can!!

Okay now onto what I read so far in October.

I did finish our two book club picks: Wild Revernece by Rebecca Ross for our fantasy pick and Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly for our horror pick. I do have discussion pages open on my discord to discuss further about these!

Wild Reverence 4.25 ⭐️

Theme Music 3 ⭐️

More in depth thoughts at the end of the month to let others finish up

I did also read Do You Remember by Freida McFadden 3⭐️ this was a nice quick palette cleanser book. It’s very simple and surface level, a great pick for beginners

I’m currently reading an ARC of Red City by Marie Liu in 50 pages in and I’m already hooked! I’ve seen a lot of mutuals give this 5 ⭐️ so I am very excited to see where it goes!! The synopsis is giving me Jade city vibes 😁