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Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller. I like pretty much everything.

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Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark

Riley Sager

What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction. In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

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  • The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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    Feb 20, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

    The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis 4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I really liked this one! At first I was put off a bit because they're all a bit alike in one way or another but in the end I enjoyed how this one connected all the others and learning how things started.

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  • The Three Musketeers
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    Feb 19, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

    The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas 4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I watched the 1993 movie quite a few times as a kid and loved it so much I knew I wanted to read the book when I got older. I remember when I first got a copy in high school ,thinking I could finally read it but the abundance of French and the older written English quickly dashed my hopes. I decided it was a good time to try again and to try immersion reading it, alas I had some issues with the translations being different from the copy I owned and the audio I found. I once again rerouted my expectations and listened almost solely to the audio. Parts of it were so good and vivid in imagination, dashing and courageous. Roguishly delightful, I loved the four immensely as I knew I would. I found myself many times however lost in the prose and some of the roundabout narrative, barely understanding what was happening at times but these clouds would part and I would once again find my feet. By the end I felt I had once again done this book a disservice, having listened at such a speed I felt that if I had only read physically and at such a pace I would've understood all and enjoyed this more thoroughly. But another time now, for this, my first attempt I rate my experience and say no more.

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    I got one you can add to this list. The Day of the Triffids is a great add to this!

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