the best reading month I've had all year 🕷️🕸️🎃👻 so many new favorite horror books [October Wrap Up]

I mean, I did read this one in the dark entirely, so I do think that might have contributed to like why I thought it was so creepy at times, but like in my opinion, this book had the perfect balance of like creepy and campy kind of horror. This one also takes place in like the early 2000s and like the late '9s, so I just thought the atmosphere in this was so good and it made me feel so nostalgic for that time.

But, Blood on Her Tongue ended up being such a good time. I think this book was so well written. And I really loved the sister relationship in this book.

It's just so entertaining and it's very twisty. Like there was a lot of things that I didn't see coming and it was just so fast-paced. Like there was not a dull moment in this book for me and I loved the atmosphere of like Joshua Tree and like being out in the desert in the middle of nowhere.

I just really loved the writing in this book. I thought the writing was so atmospheric and so brilliant. And I also loved the amount of queer characters that we had in this book and that was also something I wasn't really expecting.

Like, it just got so unhinged, but like in the best way possible. And I'm just so excited to learn that A24 is going to be adapting this into a movie with Zack Efron as the lead.

And this book had really, really good atmosphere in like the first half of it. It was just so spooky. And I really loved the way that this character would like struggle to figure out if what she was seeing was real or if she was going crazy herself.

I've seen so many people describe this book as being like very emotional and very touching and like I can definitely see why, but I just don't think the story really worked for me. I didn't really connect with any of the characters and like some of it just felt so cringey to me and so over the top and the way that they'd be like, "You listen to all of us, but who's listening to you?"

I just thought she was okay. Like I don't know. Sometimes she could be so insecure and it would like really frustrate me.

I do think some of their conversations like in the past chapters, they just felt a little bit like surface level or like kind of shallow to me. And so I definitely preferred the present- day chapters because I thought their chemistry and like the tension between them in the present day was just so well written.

And this one actually really surprised me because I have read another book from this author earlier this year that was called My Darling Dreadful Thing and I didn't really like that one. I think I gave that one two stars.

This is one that I've been so curious about because it's from the same author as My Sister, the Serial Killer, which is a thriller book that I was a really big fan of.

And so I just loved it. This was five stars for me. It's definitely one of my favorite romance books that I've read this entire year.

I also temporarily have DNFed People Watching, but I only got about like less than 50 pages into this one. I just wasn't really connecting with either of the characters right away, but I think I'm going to come back to this one at another time.

And I don't know, I just had a really great time reading this one. It was so entertaining. I really connected with Cleo as a character.

And after 80 pages in like I am just really not vibing with the writing in this. I'm not liking either of the characters very much and I just don't know if this author is the romance author for me.

And I was just so locked into this audiobook the entire time I was listening and I kept being like, "What am I listening to right now? Like what is even happening right now?" But in the best way, like this book just continued to surprise me and shock me.

And while this book did have some good, you know, fall atmosphere and at times I thought like the romance that was happening in this book was cute. Like it was sweet. But oh my god, this main character was so annoying.

And this book was such a wild ride. I do think I enjoyed the first 50% of this book more than the last half of the book because it just kind of went off in a direction where like I wasn't as invested in the plot.

I just really loved this. Like I do think this has got to be one of the most like graphic and gory horror books that I've read all year long, but it left such a long lasting impression on me.