This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is a Halloween freebie. Last year I posted about 10 hyped horror books on my TBR and I’ve actually completed a few of the books in the last year so I figured I’d do a follow up on what I rated them!
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix – ⭐️3/5 stars
Clown in the Cornfield by Adam Cesare – ⭐️4/5 stars
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones – ⭐️3/5 stars
For the last couple of years I’ve been doing this tag around this time so I figured why not continue with the tradition! See the original tag post HERE!
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
Slewfoot by Brom
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Hello friends it’s time for another WWW Wednesday update:
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman
These are five of my favourite quotes from the last five books that I have read!!
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
“The greatest good, all that, which is also just a way of saying the least bad,”
Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
“The first time Chris buried a part of herself by her son’s roadside cross, it was an accident.”
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
“I . . .” I’m not your sweetheart, motherfucker.”
Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda
“It was so easy to pretend that everything was normal. We’ve always been great pretenders here.”
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
“For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.
*A FEW SPOILERS*
This book is a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both?
Sawyer is very resolute in his thoughts that Manny the mannequin has come to life and is now hell bent on killing them all. I have to say his reasonings behind it was quite weak and the fact that he is so almost eagerly willing to murder the rest of his friends just to spare the rest of their families gives me that hero complex vibe. I don’t know how he gets away with each of them as he doesn’t really think through each little detail of the murders and executes them pretty much out in the open with a lot of witnesses.
I feel like this is basically about Sawyer not willing to grow apart from his friends and how fixated he is on trying to maintain their connection through Manny. They used to be so close and would pull all these pranks and hang out all the time and gradually that has stopped to the point where Manny has been sitting in his garage for years. Even the reoccurring theme of the super hero movie throughout the plot he uses as a way to reinforce the validity of his thought process.
One thing about Stephen Graham Jones’ books is he kind of throws you straight into the story. I just always feel a bit disoriented when I start like I missed an introduction somewhere, it’s quite strange. You definitely have to suspend a bit of belief when reading this book but it was definitely weird yet entertaining.
⭐️3/5 stars this was a wild ride!
Amy Leigh Reads 