reading my most anticipated book of the year & reading an unexpected favorite 👻🕷️🕸️🎃 (reading vlog)

But I still love this so much, but I do think I'm going to give this one four and a half stars instead of five stars and I think the main reason for that is because there was one aspect of the ending that just felt a little bit too convenient for me like plot-wise.

Kylie Lee Baker is the author of the book Bat Eater, and I was a really huge fan of Bat Eater this year. Like, that book was a five star for me.

I also really loved Breathe In, Bleed Out. Like that was another one that really surprised me, but I think I loved this one even more than that one.

And Jennifer Thorne is the author of Diavola which was a horror book that I gave five stars.

Because the other book by C.J. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In, is my number one favorite book that I've read this year, I've been so highly anticipating this.

Like I think the writing is absolutely gorgeous. It's so flowery. It's just so beautiful and whimsical. But I did not connect with these characters at all.

And I did think Ice Planet Barbarians, it was fun. You know, like it was silly. It was a little bit stupid. But like it was mostly fun and I think I gave that one three stars.

Like that was another one of my favorites from him and that's another novella.

My favorite books that I've read from Stephen Graham Jones are Night of the Mannequins which is one of his novellas and then also Mapping the Interior or whatever that one's called.

I feel like Rachel Harrison is an author that I've always had like hit-or-miss experiences with except for her most recent book that I just read called Play Nice. I loved that one so much.

I can definitely see the similarities even though I personally was not the biggest fan of the Thursday Murder Club.

Britney actually just finished reading Walking Practice, which is like one of my favorite horror novellas, and she really enjoyed this one, and she ended up giving it four stars.

And dude, like me even comparing this book right now to We Spread is crazy because We Spread is like one of my favorite books of all time and this is one of the only horror books that has ever made me absolutely ball my eyes out.