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#FridayHappyReadingHour is here 🤩🥳 Hubby and I went out for dinner tonight but now we‘re home in comfy pants, blankets, ready to relax!

Feel free to use the hashtag to play along with what you‘re reading, drinking and snacking on 🤗

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Every year I add the newest Stephen Graham Jones novel to my TBR; every year I fail to read any of his work. This year I'm quite vexed with myself for failing, because the brilliance of his work is exactly what I didn't know I needed.

This was not an easy book to listen to. Jones's characters come alive on the pages in a horrifically real way, that makes you care and hate them with equal measure.

👇🏼 continue 👇🏼

Excellent story, very dark and beautiful graphics throughout the book.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/3WQoN3F-gjk?feature=share

Enjoy!

A fun novella in the Vampire Knitting Club series, perfect for the season!

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There‘s some big emotional moments & a pretty gruesome depiction of sexual assault that I felt was handled pretty well in how it impacts Mercy & her relationships. Oddly enough I have more issue with how she chose between the 2 wolves, I‘m glad it happened, but she should have had more agency in THAT situation. I love Zee, fae in urban fantasy always send the story off the rails but this was very cohesive.

“Catty lines up another bottle on the wooden stump. A swing. A crack. For one brief, beautiful second, the glass dust hangs suspended in the glow from the streetlight, glittering like mist before it falls.”

V.E. Schwab has a way with words.

#botm #vampires

Taking a break from Christmas books to read about vampires 🧛‍♂️🩸⚰️

Prior to this, I picked up a short story collection of Golden Age mysteries that were Christmas themed. And after reading a few of them, maybe it‘s best to just leave some things in the past 😶‍🌫️

Horror hits different when it‘s built on real history. SGJ‘s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a brutal, layered reckoning with colonization, genocide, and stolen memory. Bloody, yes—but also intimate, literary, and unflinching. The vampire angle is clever, but the real horror lies in the history we‘ve whitewashed. A haunting confessional you won‘t forget. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#MidwinterSolace

A little reminder to proiritise self care and do what you need to get through the holidays. They're not for everyone. X

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