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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1)
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50 True Stories That Will Scare You to Death: True Crime, Hauntings, Aliens, and More
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Dolls in the Attic
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ITCH!
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Frankenstein
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Let's Go Play at the Adams'
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Exquisite Corpse
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Where I End
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Snake-eater
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Hemlock & Silver
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Roots of My Fears
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50 True Stories That Will Scare You to Death: True Crime, Hauntings, Aliens, and More

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  • Last to Leave the Room
    howlinglibraries
    Apr 26, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

    I LOVED the premise, and genuinely enjoyed the writing, the characters, and the plot... but it dragged at times. I thought the pacing was very inconsistent and almost DNFed it a couple of times near the middle, hence the 3.5-star rating.

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  • Girl Dinner
    howlinglibraries
    Apr 23, 2026
    DNF
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    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.0

    DNF @ 47%

    I've invested enough time in this book to comfortably say it's not for me. The writing itself is not bad (I would definitely check out more from Olivie Blake!), but the plot is dragging. I don't mind a good character-driven story if I like the characters, but I'm so bored by how vapid and narcissistic Nina is. Sloan, on the other hand, I somewhat like—and I definitely love how realistic and relatable her views of motherhood are!—but it feels like the majority of the book centers on Nina and the bits of the plot I don't care about. Why do Sloan's POV chapters feel so woefully short compared to Nina's? I don't know if it's solely my perception because I prefer Sloan's POV, or if it's an actual difference in chapter lengths, and I don't really care enough to dig deeper into this and find out the objective answer.

    Thank you to the publisher and LibroFM for the gifted audiobook! All thoughts are honest and my own.

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  • Girl Dinner
    howlinglibraries
    Apr 23, 2026
    DNF
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    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.0

    DNF @ 47%

    I've invested enough time in this book to comfortably say it's not for me. The writing itself is not bad (I would definitely check out more from Olivie Blake!), but the plot is dragging. I don't mind a good character-driven story if I like the characters, but I'm so bored by how vapid and narcissistic Nina is. Sloan, on the other hand, I somewhat like—and I definitely love how realistic and relatable her views of motherhood are!—but it feels like the majority of the book centers on Nina and the bits of the plot I don't care about. Why do Sloan's POV chapters feel so woefully short compared to Nina's? I don't know if it's solely my perception because I prefer Sloan's POV, or if it's an actual difference in chapter lengths, and I don't really care enough to dig deeper into this and find out the objective answer.

    Thank you to the publisher and LibroFM for the gifted audiobook! All thoughts are honest and my own.

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  • Firebird (The Fire That Binds, #1)
    howlinglibraries
    Apr 22, 2026
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