#summerween reads

[tealeavesand-roses]

Final Girls by Riley Sager 🔪🩸

Rating: 4.25/5

Leaning into the ✨summerween✨ of it all and trying to squeeze some thrillers into the mix before my semester starts. I really enjoyed Final Girls by Riley Sager. It started a little slow, and I wasn't too crazy about the central-park-quinn-has-repressed-anger-and-puts-man-in-a-coma subplot. However, the twist at the end both pleasantly and chillingly surprised me. Also, can we all collectively agree that Jeff sucked?

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[halloween-sweets]

[mrsbluntwist]

★*°࿐Stormy summer, horror book and red bulls…

[zillyhooveseternal]

guys it's SUMMER!!!

seizure warning below!

You're quite sure that shit has never been this real, and probably never will be again.

[dinolich]

HEY. Did you read HELLAWEEN? Consider leaving a review! On goodreads, amazon or wherever you get your books. Word of mouth is the best way readers can help boost my comics 👀

Less then two months to go until the sequel!

[princessofbookaholics]

Summerween TBR ☀️🎃

Host: gabbyreads

Duration: 5th to 11th July 2024

Prompts:

read a thriller or horror book: the mysterious case of the alperton angels by janice hallett

read a book with the night sky on the cover: 56 days by catherine ryan howard

read a book with 5 words in the title: the stranger in her house by john marrs

read a book that takes place in the summer: the midnight feast by lucy foley

read a book in the dark or at night: I'll try to read one of the above books in the dark

more tbr options i have because i'm indecisive:

darling girls by sally hepworth

home is where the bodies are by jeneva rose

listen for the lie by amy tintera

the female of the species by mindy mcginnis

episode thirteen by craig dilouie

i've been in such a thriller mood lately, i'm excited to read all of these! happy reading 🎃

[wanderersbooks]

Recent reads that deserved some love✨✨

[manifestdestinytarot]

217/366 - reflect•recharge•return

[whatcha-reading-today]

Summerween Day 5: Horror that Horrifies

This is part of the Summerween 2024 recommendations. See the masterpost here.

These are stories that worked their way under my skin. Heed any warnings!

Maeve Fly | C.J. Leede: American Psycho, if Patrick Bateman worked at a Disney-adjacent place. I also had the pleasure of reading American Rapture as an ARC and holy shit it's good.

The Long Walk | Stephen King: 100 boys compete in a walking competition and the winner gets anything they want. But that's too easy, if you walk too slow or take too long a break, you buy your ticket.

Hypnagogia | Michael F. Simpson: This one doesn't have a traditional plot but is a nasty exploration of the self, identity, and the body.

The Reformatory | Tananarive Due: Horror based in fact on the 'schools' where Black boys were sent during Jim Crowe times. Ghosts abound, but even death doesn't let you escape.

The Indian Lake Trilogy | Stephen Graham Jones: An absolute love letter to slasher movies of the 80s/90s. Jade is an amazing final girl.

The Ruins | Scott Smith: Don't bother with the movie, it doesn't capture how vile and fun the slasher turns out.

[bekah-reading]

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3/5 (3.5)

Lessons in Corruption is about Cressida, who is separated from her husband and ends up meeting King. King turns out to be her student at the school she works for- he also is the heir to the Fallen Men MC.

King is 18, thankfully, so their isn’t any kind of underage stuff. I hate student/teacher relationships (a lot of the speculative or horror or thriller stuff I like is about it but in a commentary way). In a romance, it just feels weird.

She’s 26/27, and King is 18- so the age gap isn’t all that bad either. My parents were 10 years apart and they met after my mom divorced her first husband so 10 years depending on age and story ain’t bad for me.

I liked the writing, I liked King. I didn’t mind Cressida much, but it’s first person and it’s from her POV the whole time. I found her a bit annoying at times. Spice was good. The problem is that is very much a first book, and it’s very much clunky and a bit unpolished.

I did find it to be a bit of a SOA rip-off so if you like Sons of Anarchy you might want to read this series. The chapters are bit spatially challenged by the fact it seems and is time jumpy in between. So it just seems clunky and all over the place. I feel like this is a forgettable book. Good run, time to move on.

I heard each book in this series is a stand alone but I have to read the books in order. It’s just how I am. I am excited however for the second book. I’m glad I read it, and I enjoyed it for the most part.

[venusbloo]

Read-a-thon: Summerween 2023

Summerween Art by Rachel (RemarkablyRach) – Etsy – Redbubble **This post may contain affiliate links. If you use a link to make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. So, if you want to support my blog, please consider using a link! Thank you for your support!** Now, that July 4th celebrations are over, it’s time for Summerween! Olivia (oliviareadsalatte) and Gabby (Gabby Reads) are once…

[blog-i-carry-your-heart-with-me]

Review : Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio

A modern-Gothic novella which draws you in from the first moment! Graveyard Shift follows the 5 members of an ad-hoc smoking circle over the course of one long night - early morning.

★★★★ A modern-Gothic novella which draws you in from the first moment! Graveyard Shift follows the 5 members of an ad-hoc smoking circle over the course of one long night – early morning. When the group arrive at their usual haunt, a space amongst the tombstones and mausoleums of a closed church graveyard, they find something unexpected – a shallow grave. Over the next few hours they will begin…

[a-typical]

Blood Music (1985) - Greg Bear

[sararaasch]

merry christmasummerween 🎅🏻⛱️🎃

pretty proud of myself, carving this jack-o-melon on my own with minimal frustrated cursing (SO. STICKY.)

i basically had to, seeing as over the next two weeks, there’ll be MANY MANY chances coming at you to get THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE KISSMAS, and how else should i get your attention but a silly gimmick

IT’S THE MAGIC OF THE SEASON

[sophiecountsclouds]

July tbr!

I've accidentally made another rather long tbr... but I still have the faithless optimism that I can read it all 😂

Hello! We’re still in the first week of July so I’m not late on this yet… right? After months of banging on about making my monthly tbr’s shorter and more achievable, I’ve got a tbr that’s 10 books long but I can explain 😂 It’s only so long because I’m doing my first ever readathon! I’ve been following gabbyreads on YouTube for a couple of years and even though I don’t read a lots of…

[styxte3th]

𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔶 𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫 🎃🎃