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Batch Ratings for 2019: Paranormal/Creepy Edition
This is a list of dark books that I read in 2019 that I didn’t really write full reviews for but I still wanted to share my ratings for them! My full reading list can be found on my [Goodreads] so you can look further into them!
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4.5 stars
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3.7/5 stars
“Wow. Predictable but intriguing nonetheless.”
2/5 stars
“This was so good, predictable at almost every turn but…
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Book recs ask! 11, 28, 42, 104. Yay for books!
11. a book with a green cover
I’ll go with The Last Graduate from Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series because I just added the third book to my TBR for September.
28. a book you wish you could read as a beginner again
Hmm...Lots of my favorites, but maybe Melina Marchetta’s Jellicoe Road because it’s so confusing but then it becomes something so beautiful as you continue reading. (Although maybe if I had my memory of it completely erased, I wouldn’t keep pushing through until I got to the beautiful part...)
42. a book that made you want to scream by the time you got to the end
Over the weekend I read No Beauties or Monsters by Tara Goedjen, which had a great mysterious, atmospheric setup, and then spent the last quarter introducing an entirely new genre, and, while technically answering all the questions of the first part, doing it in such an annoying, unsatisfying way.
Also, I just finished Crosstalk by Connie Willis, which I finally picked up at the recommendation of @lavellenchanted and overall really enjoyed, but the literal final scene is a very, very interrupted confessional/romantic bit and I was actively shouting at my audiobook app for the last fifteen minutes or so because every time something was about to happen there was ANOTHER interruption 😂
104. a fluffy, sweet read
Yesss, love these! I’ll go with Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall, which is a single-parent, Great British Bake Off romance (as I was reading it, I started wanting to use it for my “inspired by...” prompt for this year’s Steggy Week but then I realized I’d already done a Bake Off AU, which says quite a bit about me). And I’ll throw in a bonus: the very darling graphic novel Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez 🥰
Book ‘em!
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Title: No Beauties or Monsters | Author: Tara Goedjen | Publisher: Delacorte Press (2021)
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The Breathless by Tara Goedjen
Mae Cole and her family are still mourning the death of the eldest sister, beautiful and beguiling Roxanne Cole, one year prior in the neighboring swamps of their once grand but now dilapidated ancestral home Blue Gate Manor. But Mae’s discovery of Ro’s mysterious occult journal, as well as the sudden re-appearance of Ro’s boyfriend, Cage, who is the prime suspect in her murder, leads Mae to dig into the secrets of the Cole family and uncover the truth behind Ro’s death.
To my delight, this book is a solid Gothic horror/romance, which is an often overlooked genre. Though set in modern times, it has all the requisite trappings of the genre: a spooky old but grand house (here an antebellum Southern manor) with trap doors, hidden passages, and creepy ancestral paintings; family secrets that are too terrible to come to light; the encroaching wilderness, here the marshes that give plenty of hiding places for the good and bad; and a touch of the supernatural, where ghosts of the places and people being ever-present in the happenings of the story. The story even flirts with common themes of occult and incest, though in terms of those two elements, it never quite has the courage to take it that far. But fair, given the target audience.
But even though it doesn’t get that salacious, the mystery element was enough to engage me from the start, and the story implied enough for me to be satisfied. It was hard for me to connect with Mae as a protagonist, admittedly--but she is instrumental in figuring out the mystery, and you get a sense she’s doing the best she can being socially introverted and having an emotionally stunted family. And Cage is a major woobie, you can’t help but sympathize with him. I wish the book explained a little more clearly how (or if) he came back to life in his first crash, and if his ultimate death was a function of the ritual, the burning of the book, or the injury Sonny gave him, but maybe it’s a mix of both or that’s just part of the mystery we have to accept from this genre.
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New Young Adult Books Releasing Today! (October 10, 2017)
Another big week for YA new releases! Are any of these on your TBR? Have I missed any titles? Let me know!
First in a Series/Standalones:
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Breathless by Tara Goedjen
Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski
The Memory Trees by Kali Wallace
This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
Gray Wolf Island by Tracey Neithercott
The Berserker by Emmy Laybourne
The Gatekeepers by Jen Lancaster
Last Star Burning by Caitlin Sangster
Sequels:
Into the Bright Unknown (The Gold Seer Trilogy #3) by Rae Carson
The Knowing (The Forgetting #2) by Sharon Cameron
Happy reading!
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The Breathless – Tara Goedjen IT ISN’T A NIGHT FOR raising. It isn’t night yet at all. It’s a hazy gray afternoon, with the promise of rain.
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The Breathless, by Tara Goedjen
Right from the start, this book caught my attention. Jumping from past to present, this novel keeps you interested throughout the whole story! Each revelation brings with it another set of mysteries about the history of Blue Gate Manor and its inhabitants. It reminded me of Jennifer Donnelly’s form of writing, especially her novel These Shallow Graves. This book inadvertently helps one understand that death is a part of life and that you need to learn to move on at one point.
- Camila, 13
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You mention Mara Dyer? I say gimme 🙌😵📚
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Thrillers aren’t uncommon in YA, but truly creepy books are. But this looks like it has potential to be one!
The Breathless by Tara Goedjen (October 10, 2017)
No one knows what really happened on the beach where Roxanne Cole’s body was found, but her boyfriend, Cage, took off that night and hasn’t been seen since. Until now. One year—almost to the day—from Ro’s death, when he knocks on the door of Blue Gate Manor and asks where she is.
Cage has no memory of the past twelve months. According to him, Ro was alive only the day before. Ro’s sister Mae wouldn’t believe him, except that something’s not right. Nothing’s been right in the house since Ro died.
And then Mae finds the little green book. The one hidden in Ro’s room. It’s filled with secrets—dangerous secrets—about her family, and about Ro. And if what it says is true, then maybe, just maybe, Ro isn’t lost forever.
And maybe there are secrets better left to the dead.
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November wrap up.
• Reign of Shadows - Sophie Jordan
• Rise of Fire - Sophie Jordan
• Ash Princess - Laura Sebastian
• The Glass Spare - Lauren DeStefano
• The Breathless - Tara Goedjen
• Kingdom of Ash and Briars - Hannah West
• The Traitor’s Kiss - Erin Bety
• Across the Universe - Beth Revis
• The Lost Sisters - Holly Black
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Review: The Breathless
Synopsis:
No one knows what really happened on the beach where Roxanne Cole’s body was found, but her boyfriend, Cage, took off that night and hasn’t been seen since. Until now. One year—almost to the day—from Ro’s death, when he knocks on the door of Blue Gate Manor and asks where she is.
Cage has no memory of the past twelve months. According to him, Ro was alive only the day before.…
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No one knows what really happened on the beach where Roxanne Cole’s body was found, but her boyfriend, Cage, took off that night and hasn’t been seen since. Until now. One year—almost to the day—from Ro’s death, when he knocks on the door of Blue Gate Manor and asks where she is.
Cage has no memory of the past twelve months. According to him, Ro was alive only the day before. Ro’s sister Mae wouldn’t believe him, except that something’s not right. Nothing’s been right in the house since Ro died.
And then Mae finds the little green book. The one hidden in Ro’s room. It’s filled with secrets—dangerous secrets—about her family, and about Ro. And if what it says is true, then maybe, just maybe, Ro isn’t lost forever.
And maybe there are secrets better left to the dead.
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The Breathless
For fans of the dark family secrets of We Were Liars and the page-turning suspense of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Breathless is a haunting tale of deeply buried secrets, forbidden love, and how far some will go to bring back what’s long dead.
No one knows what really happened on the beach where Roxanne Cole’s body was found, but her boyfriend, Cage, took off that night and hasn’t been seen…
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