Initial Thoughts This entire book was the right kind of dark, macabre, mysterious, and so very much brimming with tension one would expect when it comes to a girl at first hating Death and then finding that he isn't so bad after all. I'm really glad I read this as part of my spooky reads [...]
Initial Thoughts: I think I've solved my Holly Black beginning-book problems, because she did the EXACT SAME THING to me in The Cruel Prince and--to a lesser extent--Tithe. Book of Night was definitely on the slow end, and while it picked up for me a third in, it sputtered again in the middle. However, I [...]
Sometimes the audiobook is made or broken by narration. I stand by this statement for these next two audiobooks that I'd recently listened to. That said, I will also say it wasn't just the narrative voices I paid attention to. I really enjoyed A Good Girl's Guide to Murder throughout. I listened to this audiobook [...]
Initial Thoughts: Enjoyed this book better than the first! It was also scarier IMHO, but ghosts trump scarecrows, so... DEAD VOICES by Katherine Arden Putnam's Sons, August 2019 Children's Horror, Fantasy Rated: 5 / 5 cookies Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and [...]
My reading has been very scarce lately, but I'm trying to get back in the beat! I did end up spending a weekend reading Tunnel of Bones, which is pretty much the only thing I'm caught up in at the moment. No regrets, though! The other title took much longer, mostly because I wasn't so keen [...]
Story and Somnomancy 