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The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

3.0

Book Club #1

I was super whelmed by this. By no means was it a bad book, I just didn’t find it all that engaging. Even when the twists would show up it was more of an “oh okay” than a “holy shit” moment. All of the characters were also just shitty, not one good apple in the bunch. Everyone immediately wanted to murder, just i have been scorned let me kill your ass. Also, all my homies hate Chet.

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

5.0

This absolutely rips. The story is great and I loved the characters. A fantastic tale of showing people to just love who you want to love. All the while being wrapped up with some pretty interesting horror.

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez

2.0

2.5

Seems like I’m in the minority here but I didn’t love this. It meanders way too much. Started off so strong and I was so interested to see where it goes. There’s just so much unnecessary content in there, I don’t need to jump back in time for 150 pages and then jump into some random writer who has a very minimal impact on the plot. Then the ending feels super rushed. If your book is almost 600 pages and you spend almost half of it and random crap maybe don’t rush the main story at the end. There was enough there that made me want to keep going, unfortunately it just fell flat for me.

Later by Stephen King

4.0

Went in completely blind and really enjoyed the ride. Had no idea what to expect but enjoyed it thoroughly. Didn’t expect that bigger King universe connection.

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

5.0

Holy! What a ride. Starts slow focusing more on the political side, then the pace picks up exponentially. I really enjoyed the political stuff, at first I was put off a bit, but it grew on me a lot. I liked the new characters they introduced, they worked really well into the story. What a fantastic read. I’m really excited for book 3.

Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker

3.0

This was pretty solid, though I would say it dragged a bit in the middle. The ending was quite good. I’m typically not a huge haunted house story guy, so I didn’t expect to love this anyways. A fun October read.

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

4.0

Had a lot of fun with this one. I kind of like the open endedness of the story towards the end. Kind of leaves it up to the reader on what they think.

Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Gabino Iglesias, Andrew Cull

4.0

A really solid collection of short stories. I was a little weary going in, assuming that the cover would be the best part, but was happily surprised. All the stories were pretty consistently good throughout.

Sundial by Catriona Ward

3.0

I had to take a major break while reading this due to having to study. It’s not bad, but it wasn’t my favourite. Most of the book lives in the past, which I didn’t fully love, and I also thought the Arrowood portions were kind of useless. Definitely interesting enough to keep my attention.

Wool by Hugh Howey

5.0

I liked this a lot! Gave really big Fallout vibes, but instead of vaults it was silos. Most of the characters introduced I liked, or liked to hate. My god is there ever a lot of people going up and down stairs though, I was getting tired just reading it.