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🇨🇦 Mini book reviews with moodboards ✨️ Mostly horror/thriller/fantasy/lgbtq+ CR: 📖📱🎧

My October reading stats Books: 13 Pages: 3229 Av. Rating: 4.06 Highest rated reads: The Stepford Wives, Something's Wrong With Maddie, and the Haunting of Hill House 92% fiction 8% Non fiction Top genres: Horror, classics, Literary, LGBTQIA+, and mystery 92% audio 8% digital
Cover and rating for The Hollow Kind. 3/5 A blue cover with an upside down bear. It has glowing red eyes red vines growing from it.
Cover and rating for Leech by Hiron Ennes. 4.5/5 stars. A pale background with a dark bottle containing a large manor. The lid of the bottle is open and and a spiky substance slithers out.
Cover and rating for Girl with All the Gifts. 4.5/5 stars, a yellow cover with a dark silhouette of a young girl with her arms raised
Cover for The Folly of Realism. Bold white typography over a greyscale image of a close up of half of Vladimir Putins face
Cover for The Road by Cormac McCarthy. A simple black background with the authors name in brown and the title in white
Cunning Folk cover. A black and red background with a shadowy boars head with circular red eyes
Cover for Sign Here. A handwritten title with a red line intertwining the letters; the top is a pitchfork and the bottom is a pen
Cover for Blood on her tongue A black and white dog stands in from of a dark wall of foliage and red flowers
My Storygraph reading wrap up Books: 10 Pages: 3262 Av. Rating: 4.16 Highest rated: The Drift, I Who Have Never Known Men, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil Av. Length: 332 pages Av. Time to finish: 7 days 80% fiction 20% Non fiction Top genres: Horror, Literary, history, dystopian, politics 90% audio 10% print
Cover for The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo. A dark forest with eyes drawn overtop
Cover for Rot by Padraic Scanlan. A background of wooden planks with a pile of potatoes in varying states of decay
Cover for Probaganda Girls by Lisa Rogak. A white background with an illustration of a smiling woman in a US military uniform
Cover for The Dark Half by Stephen King A gravestone in a field with the inscription: "George Stark. 1975-1988. Not a very nice guy" a black bird sits on top of it, with a flock in the background
Cover for The Hiding Place by C.J. Tudor A dark room, a deck of cards strewn on the floor, the corner of a bare bedframe, with the title and authors name written in red on the wall
Cover for Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison A pink background, with a black sheep illustration with legs transitioning into paint drips with red dots for eyes
The cover for The Changeling by Victor LaValle. A blue background with white tree illustrations and a baby carrier on the ground
My July Storygraph wrap up Books: 8 Pages: 3051 Avg. Rating: 3.88 Highest Rated Reads: The Girl with All the Gifts: 4.5 The Road: 4.5 Leech: 4.25 Average book length: 350 pages Average time to finish: 3 days 75% fiction 25% Non fiction Top Genres: Horror, dystopia, science fiction, LGBTQIA+, Literary
One cover for Code Dependant. A pink background with illustrations of people, buildings, and vehicles connected by a yellow web/net
Cover for Rabid. A white background with a red scratchy texture at the top, and a black and white illustration of a dog foaming at the mouth with its tail between its legs
Cover for Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward. Looking out into the water from the mouth of a cave. The rocks create the silhouette of a skull, and a boat and figure floating in the water look like the eyes
The cover of Hungerstone by Kat Dunn. A classical looking painting of a woman laying dramatically over the edge of her bed, with the title and authors name in neon green
My June 2025 wrap up! Books: 9 - Pages: 2,645 - Av. Rating: 3.92 Highest rated reads: Blood on her Tongue (4.5) The Dark Half (4) The Hiding Place (4) Average book length: 318 pages Time to finish: 3 days Fiction: 67% Non- fiction: 33% Genres: Horror, thriller, history, historical, fantasy Audio: 100%
Cover for When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy. A snarling wolf stands outside a window, looking in
Cover for The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown. A faded blue image of a flat snowy landscape with mountains in the distance, and a star filled sky
Cover for Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant. A woman with dark hair is being pulled under the water by two greenish hands with sharp nails and webbed fingers over her eyes
Cover for Lucy Undying by Kiersten White. A woman with a sad expression looks back at us over her shoulder. She is wearing a Victorian looking off-the-shoulder red dress, with long blonde hair hiding the silhouettes of three snarling dogs.
Cover for Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant. A black background, a figure seemingly sinking into the darkness with a splash of red covering the face and drifting upward
Cover for Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. A row of camp cabins, one with blue lights on, in the woods. A face overhead, mouth wide open with insects flying out
Storygraph wrap up! Books: 7 Pages: 2320 Avg Rating: 4.35 Highest rated reads: Hungerstone, Lucy Undying, and When the Wolf Comes Home Average book length: 315 pages Average time to finish: 4 days Fiction: 71% Non fiction: 29% Genres: Horror, history, thriller, LGBTQIA+, biography Audio: 100%
Cover for Private Rites by Julia Armfield. A green sky, pouring rain with mountains in the background on a blue swirling ocean
Cover for Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi. A dark foggy shipyard is lit by a lighthouse.
Cover for Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. A young woman with skull face paint and a white cloak over black clothing, one arm half raised and surrounded by skeletons.
Cover for One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. A red background, a small girl holding a bouquet of flowers and reaching up to the sky while a missile descends towards her.
Cover for Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya. A pointilist portrait of the lower half of a woman's face with vampire fangs drawn on it
Cover for So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison. A fancy glass goblet filled with red liquid dripping over the edges, with a white toothpick with a bat and crescent moon on it
My April storygraph wrap up: Books: 9 Pages: 3112 Average Rating: 4.43 Highest rated reads: Into the Drowning Deep, Harrow the Ninth, and So Thirsty Av. Length: 349 pages Time to finish: 8 days Fiction: 78% Nonfiction: 22% Genres: Horror, LGBTQIA+, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Audio: 89% Print: 11%
Cover for Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman. A family sits at a white dinner table with a stark red background, their faces replaced with TV static
Cover for Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin A birds nest with a few broken eggs oozing yolks and dark liquid, with one pristine egg sitting upright behind them
Cover for This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer A distant rock climber dangles from the nasal bone of a giant skull over a forest
Cover for Little Heaven by Nick Cutter. A dark sky filled with flames and black smoke, with the silhouette of a small building with a cross on top
Cover for Rouge by Mona Awad. An upside down red jellyfish, with a stem extending below it making it look like a rose
My Storygraph March 2025 Reading Wrap up. Books: 9 Pages: 3049 Av. Rating: 3.67 Highest Rated Reads: Rouge, The Night Guest, and Malice. Average book length: 342 pages Average time to finish: 5 days Fiction: 78% Non fiction: 22% Top Genres: Horror, LGBTQIA+, Fantasy, Essays, Literary Format: 67% audio, 22% Digital, 11% print
Cover for Misrule by Heather Walter. A lilac background with two hands almost holding each other, a single thorned vine winds around them with a wilting purple rose at the top, 3 petals falling down
Cover for Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster, with a quote: "Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year."
The cover for The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir. A pink background with a mostly empty wine glass, dark red wine dripping from the top of the page into the glass.
Cover for Malice by Heather Walter. A dark blue background, two hands not quite holding each other, entwined together by thorned vines with a rose blooming at the top
Screenshot of my top genres this year on storygraph. In order: Horror, LGBTQIA+, fantasy, thriller, history, science fiction, mystery, essays, literary, politics, psychology
Cover for Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth. A dark background with a scared looking woman covering her face with her hands, one eye exposed
Cover for Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera. A red background, white text, and a black aux cord winds around the page
My Storygraph February 2025 Wrap-up. Read 9 books, 3560 pages, avg. rating 4.25. Highest rated reads: Gideon the Ninth - 5 stars Listen for the Lie - 4.75 stars Episode 13 -4.5 stars Average book length: 377 pages Average time to finish: 7 days Fiction: 78% Non Fiction: 22% Top Genres: Horror, thriller, history, mystery, and fantasy Format: Audio: 78% Digital: 11% Print: 11%
Cover for Episode 13 by Craig DiLouie. A wall of old, dark green brick with an illuminated window in the center, surrounded by old stone pillars and an arch. Two hands are silhoutted pressed against the top right corner of the other side of the glass.
Cover for The Curse of Camp Cold Lake by R.L. Stine. A ghost girl emerges from a lake, wide bloodshot eyes and a skeletal hole for a nose.
Cover for Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. A dark background with bold red text, a rabbit plushie sits in the middle, dimly backbiting by a spotlight.
Cover for Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Edited by Jordan Peele. A tinfoil-like texture with three holes torn out to resemble a screaming face on a red background
Cover for I'll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara. A black and white negative photo of a dark house with a row of trees in front of it
Cover for The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers. A grainy, painterly image of a figure in yellow robes, a thin pale arm exposed, and a face obscured by a mask
Cover for The Devil's Trick by John Boyko. A white background with an army helmet, with the words "The Devil's Trick" written across it
Cover for Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A white background, a watercolor painting of a greyscale pigs head with blood coming from its mouth and left eye
Cover for The Haar by David Sodergren. A vaguely humanoid, veiny figure with one large eye in the middle of its face.