Welcome to Litsy!

October #bookspinbingo card. I got one bingo and completed all three #castthedie titles, none of my #roll100 titles, and neither #bookspin nor #doublespin

Still, a better reading month than I thought it would be!
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I read all my #CasttheDie picks. Completed spooky #GottaCatchemAll and then nearly completed #AfterDarkBingo and #BodyCountBingo

I do Trick or Treatathon on Discord too and completed one big board and nearly completed a small board

#HauntedShelf #RestlessSpirits

This was an interesting twist on the haunted house story. Four novelists get an offer to spend the night in a haunted house for publicity. They all had weird experiences there but when they leave that's when the craziness starts 🐈‍⬛
#HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew #ScavengerHunt #Building #BookRecommendations #Phantasmal #CastTheDie @PuddleJumper #SPNBookBingo2025 #DriverPicksTheMusic @OutsmartYourShelf #ErasGhostBingo #Lover @Charityann

Ohhh that was very infodumpy.

It feels like MXTX got more complex and serious than with SVSSS, but didn't yet have the craft that made TGCF shine. I can see lots of stuff I like the idea of here, and there are some fun scenes, but holy mackerel, I cannot keep this backstory straight.

I basically treated it like a Norse saga though: let the names wash over you, you'll get it later. It has potential, though I don't *love* it.

Magic candles, a snarky talking cat, a small town populated by friendly witches… what‘s not to love? First book in the series, and I look forward to reading more.

#BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN
#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #CandyCornies @Bookwormjillk
#Pantone2025 #WispyClouds @Lauredhel
#CastTheDie @PuddleJumper

I read 9 books from my #CastTheDie list including the three rolled titles.

This vintage mystery was a great deal of fun, but a bit too repetitive for it to be a 5* read. Still, a pick for being engaging, humorous, and all around good fun.

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam @ImperfectCJ
#Read2025 - 62/100 TBR Books Read @DieAReader
#CasttheDie #PumpkabooHunt @PuddleJumper
#BookSpinBingo #ISpyBingo #BirthdayBashReadathon
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple @Bookwormjillk

This book, based on the Essex Witch Trials of the 1640s, was truly spellbinding.(Forgive the pun; it‘s the most appropriate word I could think of.) I highly recommend listening on audio. I found the narrator‘s voice to be quietly mesmerizing, and was perfectly suited to this story. Although the story is sad, it conveys a real sense of what it was like to live in England during the witch craze of the Cromwellian era. Petrifying.

I hated this book and would like to formally apologize for picking it as a team read. Plot: a group of jealous witches get together to punish a gross man that for some reason they have all been fawning over 🤦🏼‍♀️
#HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew 🐈‍⬛ #TeamRead #CastTheDie #ScavengerHunt #Group #BookRecommendations #Coven #SPNBookBingo2025 #MenOfLetters @OutsmartYourShelf #ErasGhostBingo #Midnight @Charityann #Witchathon @TEArificbooks

Managed to read this during sprints so that was fun!

This is a lot denser than the first book. There is so much mythology and information that it got a little bit overwhelming.

I'm excited to see what happens next after that cliffhanger.