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The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1)

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

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Thoughts from 20% (Chapter Five)

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I didn't expect that this would send me over the edge!! you got alien & ghost in one package of a story.. Adam Nevill just woke up one day & decided to torture his MC in the most hauntingly way imaginable gif

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the morning is no blessing. The handful of scattered survivors are confronted by blood-red skies and an infestation of predatory horrors that never originated on earth. An occupying force intent on erasing the remnants of animal life from the planet. Across the deserted landscapes of England, bereft of infrastructure and society, the overlooked can either hide or try to outrun the infernal hunting terrors. Until a rumour emerges claiming that the sea may offer an escape. Ordinary, unexceptional, directionless Karl, is one of the few who made it through the first night. In the company of two orphans, he flees south. But only into horrifying revelations and greater peril, where a transformed world and expanding race of ravening creatures await. Driven to the end of the country and himself, he must overcome alien and human malevolence and act in ways that were unthinkable mere days before.All The Fiends of Hell is a novel of alien horror from the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.

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The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1)

Sara Hashem

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The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1)

Sara Hashem

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Thoughts from 4% (page 23, chapter two)

May we lead the lives our ancestors were denied.

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Oct 17, 2025

2.0

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.5Plot: 2.5

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Bit disappointed with how this turns out; based from the beautiful cover art, I'd expect something horror, bone-shaking, spooky mixed with a bit sexiness inside. And after The Hacienda, I can't help but feel Isabela's about to strike again but unfortunately, it doesn't happened. gif

This book has such potential; it has a strong beginning with an interesting plot and solid theme of freedom & control but after a while, it lost its sparks and fell flat all the way to the end. The characters, for me, doesn't really work well together, emotional and physical chemistry are basically non-exist; Elias & Alba's are supposed to have this electrical yet forbidden attraction but I don't feel it at all (they're just like two best friend hanging out on random Tuesday while trying to get rid of the evil as their mission). Also, the lack of footnotes or glossary is another loss point for me

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The Possession of Alba Díaz

Isabel Cañas

When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn’t trust… from bestselling author Isabel Cañas. In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family’s isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold lurking beneath her skin. Something angry. Something wrong. Elías, haunted by a troubled past, came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family’s legacy of greed. Alba, as his cousin’s betrothed, is none of his business. Which is of course why he can’t help but notice her every time she enters a room or the growing tension between them… and why he notices her deteriorate when the demon’s thirst for blood grows stronger.

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Why do I get the sense that the author doesn't have any ideas on how to build the emotional relationship between the characters? It's so painful to see how bland and flat Alba & Elias's let alone their interaction.

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Thoughts from 20% (page 73)

I'm still trying to find the right vibes from this book; yes, it should be haunting, dark and ultimately horror but I haven't find it yet. Instead of it, I find everything pretty plain and stable.

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The Possession of Alba Díaz

Isabel Cañas

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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

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The Possession of Alba Díaz

Isabel Cañas

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Thoughts from 11% (page 42)

The fainting bride had died yesterday afternoon. Coffins began to appear soon thereafter, carried on slumped shoulders through the winding streets of the city.

hmm my guts telling me the bride had something to do with that Bartholomew but I just can't prove it 🤔🤔

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The Possession of Alba Díaz

Isabel Cañas

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New Feature: Track your reading progress 🥳 (app update required) [10/10/25]

Massive quality of life update coming your way!! We're dipping our toes into the stats waters with this one.. you can now update and track your progress on your current reads!

Click the progress bar below your current read on your home page to update progress. You can edit your progress for the day until midnight, and a status update with your reading progress will be added to your feed and shared to your followers :) This status update is the perfect place to add a comment for more personal updates that will be shared only to your followers.

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only 1 update will be added to your feed per day per book when tracking progress (if you’re reading multiple books, one update for each book can be added to your feed). If you update your progress later in the day, the existing feed activity will be updated with the new progress.
We are now passing your local time to our servers, which means you can edit that day’s progress until midnight local time for you and your start/finish read dates will reflect your local time rather than server time

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People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?