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The first book I read this year is The Woman in Cabin 10. I had it on my shelf for a long time and finally decided to read it. I was immediately sucked into the story. With every chapter I was more surprised. I really did not see it coming. Especially not this ending. It was really quite a surprise. However, the story is missing a little something to give it a fifth star.
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Some final 2024 stats for challenges.

#AtoZ : missed X and Y.

#AuldLangSpine: 8 read with a few more I hope to get tackle this year

#Booked in Time: 5 out of 12 is not great. Hope to do better this year.

#ReadYourKindle: 28 read which is great. We won‘t talk about how many took their place.

#SeriesLove24 86! Finished a couple, caught up on a couple and made progress/started others.

Thanks to all the hosts for the work they do!

Fifteen years ago, Emma's three cabinmates at summer camp disappeared in the night without a trace. Em is still haunted by that event. When the camp's owner decides to reopen the camp, she invites Em to come as an art instructor and Emma agrees, wondering if this could bring her the closure she needs. But of course instead things get really scary haha As with the other Sager books I've read, when I got done I still had a few questions, but ⬇

No bingo for #atoz This was really hard! I had so many S books

@Texreader #HauntedShelf #Flerken

Possibly the scariest book I‘ve read this month. Whew. This one really packed a punch. #HauntedShelves @PuddleJumper #DeadSerious @OriginalCyn620 🐔#31by31 @Catsandbooks #spookoween @TheSpineView #ReadingAmerica #Connecticut #bookspinbingo #promptmaze @TheAromaofBooks #AtoZ @Texreader

An old Scholastic Book Club book from 1935 that isn't in the database. Another soft pick, this was perfectly fine but somewhat boring fare. A brother and sister at the seaside on vacation meet up with a local boy with a semi-tragic backstory involving a lost inheritance. In the end, they find the long-lost will and happy endings are handed out all around. There's birdwatching, too, so I probably would have loved this when I was younger haha

Loved this book. I‘m so glad my vampire aversion didn‘t keep me away. I should have known the #hashtagbrigade wouldn‘t lead me astray (except for when they do but we still have fun #thebros)

Thanks @BarkingMadRead

#31by31 @Catsandbooks #spookoween @TheSpineView #LongNights #PromptMaze @TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo #AtoZ @Texreader

A traveling book that I was supposed to read in September, whoops. This one was borderline so-so for me, mainly because the two MCs were inconsistent and kind of annoying. Also it felt like the overall message in the end was that in the nature vs nurture debate, you can't escape nature (more details in the spoiler), and I didn't care for that. However, the use of forensic genealogy was intriguing and I enjoyed the secondary characters.

I know going into it that this type of romantic suspense is going to need me to gloss over a lot of ?!?!?! moments to make it work, but this book was really pushing the limits haha Pretty ridiculous on the whole, but sometimes that's what you need. A long while back someone gave me a box of random thrillers/romantic suspense, and this was one of them. Mildly entertaining, but off to a new home now.

#HauntedShelf #DeadSerious @OriginalCyn620

The first book read for my #BirthdayBashReadathon was a bit of a random choice - a sequel to The Wind in the Willows, written by not-the-original-Willows-author. I'm always somewhat leery of people piggy-backing off of someone else's work, but I think Horwood makes it work. It's obvious that he has a great deal of love and respect for Grahame's original characters, but says he was always a bit saddened by the ending of Willows, which reassures ⬇