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The Girl With All the Gifts

M.R. Carey

5.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The Sundown Motel was my introduction to Simone St. James and I promptly placed holds for the rest of her books at my library (shout out to Libby).

This book had me HOOKED from the get go- utterly invested in both Viv and Carly and what in the world was going on with this godforsaken motel!

This is another read that I would recommend for book readers with anxiety- just enough spook to entertain, but never so stressful that you have to put the book down. For some people that may be a problem, but for me it makes for the perfect ghost story.

My Best Friend's Exorcism

Grady Hendrix

4.0

Parasite

Mira Grant

5.0

The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher

4.5

adventurous dark tense

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

4.5 stars rounded up! This gave me the heebie-jeebies a few times- enough so that I had to pause and go so something else that involved ALL of the lights being on.

I’ll be real- I HATED that the main character’s nickname is Mouse. Absolutely hated it and it didn’t fit her character at all so that does play a part in not quite being five stars. The other part is simply that the ending was pretty quick.

Spoiler alert- the dog lives! I really loved how the relationship between the main character and her dog was written.