the_boozy_baking_bibliophile's reviews
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This book gave me all the IT vibes possible and I am 100% here for it. 

A group of misfit kids thrown together for a capstone project in 1995 uncover sinister secrets within their small town. And they all lead to the church that runs everything and determines who is worthy and who isn’t. 

20 years after they saved the town, they have fled to other parts of the country and have had zero contact with one another. Until one of them turns up dead, in their hometown, and they all come rushing back to finish what they started in 1995. 

Perfect spooky szn read. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a book like Mister Magic but it so perfectly draws you into a world of imagination and magic and darkness and fear. Six children were on the longest running children’s program together. It ended suddenly and only five emerged. Now, thirty years later they have reunited to face what happened all those years before and try to regain the parts of themselves that were stripped away. 

Five strangers receive an email offering them an opportunity of a lifetime to appear on a reality show offering a 10M dollar prize. Two weeks in a luxurious spa resort and a series of difficult challenges to be One Lucky Winner. 

The Best Friend.
The Confidante.
The Boyfriend.
The Executive. 
The Senator

Cut off from the world - but having their dangerous and potentially deadly challenges live-streamed to the world - these five quickly realize that this is more than a reality show. It’s a fight for their lives and they don’t know who is pulling the strings from behind the curtain. 

Ahhhhh College…the perfect time to reinvent yourself and make lifelong friends. For Margot though, she’s remained quiet and shy - not really sure of who she is or wants to be. 

Until she is singled out by Lucy Sharpe. The “it” girl who is the life of the party and is infamous on campus. Suddenly she’s living off campus with Lucy and her two best pals Nicole and Sloane. Nights are filled with partying with the fraternity boys next door and recovering the next day. 

Until someone from Margot’s past shows up and disturbs her newfound utopia…and then all bets are off. And then we see what everyone is truly capable of becoming. 

I’m not sure Simone St. James can do wrong in my book. She has the incredible talent to easily mingle reality with the supernatural and draw you into a web of terror. 

On a dark and seemingly deserted stretch of road - newlyweds Eddie and April are lost on their way to their honeymoon resort. And then they see her. A girl stumbling on the side of the road - looking terrified and in shock. They offer her a ride to town only to discover that she is bleeding from stab wounds and keeps telling them that “he’s coming”

If that first 15-20 pages didn’t grab you, stick around because the tale gets increasingly chilling and twisted.

A perfect spooky szn read!!

It’s hard to describe how I feel about this book. Grace is of a similar age and time of life to me so part of me feels seen. One piece of me was cheering her on every step of the way and another was constantly cringing. TBH - it stressed me out in a lot of ways because so many of the things that happened throughout her life were so damn real and relatable and scary and terrible and depressing. 

The absolute perfect spooky season book!! Idk why, but possession books/movies are always especially terrifying and addictive to me. My Darling Girl was no different as I flew through it in 24 hours. 

There were characters that I loved, ones that drove me batty and one that I truly hated (fuck you Mark) - and the ending truly caught me a bit off guard but was oh so satisfying! 

This was a cute and quirky mystery that aired all of the family’s dirty laundry. Three generations of mothers and daughters under one roof and a murder (or two!) to solve. Will they figure out who the killer is or will they kill each other in the process? 

Another stellar novel by Jeanette Walls. Read like an epic tale of Sallie’s life yet she only aged a few years in total. I guess it’s true that back in the 1920s it was a hard life and people had to grow up fast. Another woman going against the grain of the times who refuses to let a man rule her life - Sallie was easy to like over time.