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Aug 23, 2026

She's a Doll

4.0

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Thank you to NetGalley and Bindery Books for an ARC of this book. All thoughts and feelings are my own.

3.75 stars (rounding up to 4)

Lucy McQuinn is dead and full of vengeance. When her soul possesses a doll, she is determined to go after her killer Chucky style. This book was a roller coaster of emotions for me. I felt the grief and anger that Lucy felt. Reading her experience of death from a first-person POV made me feel so sad for her. I loved her relationship with Nic; I think that was the highlight of the book for me. I found the ending quite satisfactory. My only issue with the book was the pacing. It really dragged until around 20%, but the rest of the story made it worth struggling through the beginning. I went in expecting a funny, murder-doll horror and was pleasantly surprised to see that it also contained an exploration of trauma and friendships.

P. S. nice book club questions 👀

TW: murder, grief, SA, domestic violence, suicidal thoughts

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She's a Doll

Barbara Truelove

Lucy isn’t a normal girl. Ghost. Victim. Killer. She’s a doll on a mission—to find the man who killed her and return the favor. Lucy McQuinn has been murdered, but she’s not about to go quietly. If she doesn’t get to keep breathing, then neither does Kyle, her killer. Possessing the body of an antique doll, she sets out on a quest for revenge. But it’s hard when you’re eighteen inches tall and made of porcelain. For help, she turns to Nicola, a human and fellow outsider with her own reasons to hate Kyle. But in their small idyllic town, no one wants to hear the truth, especially not about such a promising young man. If they can’t expose his crimes, Lucy will have to roll up her lacy little sleeves and teach him a lesson the old-fashioned way—as slowly and painfully as possible. From LA Times bestselling author Barbara Truelove, She’s a Doll is a ghoulish and gleeful tribute to the unstoppable power of female rage and a love letter to the friends who have our back—in this life and the next.

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One of Us Knows

Alyssa Cole

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past. Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can’t refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she’s determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home’s conservation trust just as a Nor’easter bears down on the island disrupts her newfound life, leaving Ken trapped with a group of possibly dangerous strangers—including the man who brought her life tumbling down years earlier. When he turns up dead, Ken is the prime suspect. Caught in a web of secrets and in a race against time, Ken and her alters must band together to prove their innocence and discover the truth of Kavanaugh Island—and their own past—or they risk losing not only their future, but their life.

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The Unhaunting

Micaiah Johnson

Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson invites you to Abernathy House.A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death.At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the confederacy made what she thought was an innocent to build a house where nothing bad could happen. But peace came at a price, and one hundred and seventy years later Shantell and her friends are about to discover where all that darkness ended up.When Shantell’s best friend, Avery, tells her he has inherited a house big enough to make their dreams of a sanctuary come true, she’s too cautious to be optimistic. A lifetime of loss — her father to the Iraq war, her brother to police violence, and her mother to suicide — has taught her cynicism, and even though Avery swears the house has never experienced a tragedy, she goes along expecting everything from black mold to evil spirits.But not only is the house in better shape than they’d expected, it makes them better Shantell’s anxiety stops flaring up, terminally shallow Avery is suddenly capable of deeper emotions, and Tobias, Avery’s older brother and the contractor for the job, even quits chain smoking.There’s an eeriness to the calm, and it’s almost a relief when they realize they do not walk alone in Abernathy House. If nothing bad has ever happened here, where are all these ghosts coming from? As they dig into the house’s history, Shantell, Avery, and Tobias discover that there’s only one thing worse than a house that’s a house that desperately wants to be.

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Books that remind you of Aurora songs?

I'm a huge fan of Aurora's songs and often when I listen to them I have this strong craving to READ them. Her imagery is so vivid and her siren voice makes them 10/10 experience. Here are some of the songs that I'm currently seeking to experience as a book:

When The Dark Dresses Lightly
A Soul With No King
Blood In the Wine
Apple Tree
Everything Matters
A Dangerous Thing
Forgotten Love
Dreams
The Blade
Winter Bird

But honestly, any of her songs as an inspiration would be great, I love them all. Does anyone have any recs? ☺️

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Multiple books at once

HEYY! Let me ask you, do you always read one book and that book only at a time, or multiple (like me)? Even if I tried, I really just can't stick to only one reading option. I tend to have a few books of different genres in my "currently reading" pile at once (3-5) and that keeps me motivated and consistent, because I can just pick up the book I'm the most in the mood for. Though I haven't met or seen that many other people like this, I've even had friends say that they cannot do that because they would lose focus, but for me it's just so natural, like doing multiple projects at once (sure it takes way longer to finish them all haha). I don't really have a problem with this habit of mine, I just wonder if there's people like me out there!

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Books that remind you of Aurora songs?