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Girls with Sharp Sticks (5/5)
Killing November (4/5)
Something in the Water (4/5)
The Woman in the Window (5/5)
The Hand on the Wall (5/5)I Owe You One (4/5)The Bone Witch (3.5/5)The Silent Patient (3/5)
Such a Fun Age (5/5)Long Bright River (4/5)Evvie Drake Starts Over (3.5/5)The Kiss Quotient (3/5)
Girl, Wash Your Face (3/5)House of Salt and Sorrows (4.5/5)Wilder Girls (3/5)The Roanoke Girls (4/5)
The Heart Forger (4/5)The Shadowglass (3.7/5)The Raven Boys (5/5)Girls with Razor Hearts (3.5/5)
Serpent & Dove (3.5/4)Beach Read (5/5)
Okay now time for dedicated posts for 7 books that have made the "Greatest Books You'll Ever Read" list aka books I'd buy for my personal library
Into the Drowning Deep (5/5)"The smarter you are, the more likely you are to want to eat the world."
If you like mermaids, if you like horror, if you like mystery this book has it all. Could not put it down & had me engaged until the very end. I need a sequel please.
Sadie"We have more story than time to tell it—but I suppose that’s true for all of us."
Told half through Sadie's perspective and half through a podcast exploring why she is missing and her sister's death, Sadie was incredible. I cried, I hoped and I understood.
All the Stars and Teeth"There are some who say a mermaid doesn’t need a reason to drown anyone. They’ll tell you that mermaids do it for fun."
Pirates of the Caribbean but better, with a female lead & more magic. Pirates, Mermaids, blood magic, love. Couldn't ask for more.
The Bone Houses“And perhaps this was the truth about the dead. You went on. They'd want you to.”
I cry thinking about this book. The best book I've read this year. A more nuanced take on zombies, Bone Houses looks at life before, after & in the face of death. Please read it!
Small Spaces"I wish I could have told you this story in person. More than anything, I wish I had one more hour, one more day, a little more time."
Technically a middle grade book I adored Small Spaces. This felt like the Goosebumps I used to fall asleep holding as a kid.
Beartown"And there are no winners without losers, no stars are born without others in the collective being sacrificed."
It’s hard to put into words how some books change you. How they cut so deep, so vividly it’s hard to imagine the marks haven’t been there all along.
Pachinko "A woman’s life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It’s better to expect it, you know."
"To live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement."
I cried. A lot. Too heavy for words.
Okay 29 books and we're all caught up. I'll try to keep this up to date as I read each book going forward. No promises lol
Here's my goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/96413686-taylor
Here's my goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/96413686-taylor
I have 8 books to add to the list - time to update
Wicked Saints (3/5)The Bear and the Nightingale (4/5) The Glass Hotel (4/5)Eight Perfect Murders (4.5/5)
Ninth House (5/5)“But the real question, the right question, was: When was the first time you knew to be afraid?”
God I love dark academia. This was my first Bardugo book & far from my last. Ninth House was the perfect mix of murder, mystery & magic. I’d die for Darlington.
The Deep (4/5) Bunny (4/5) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (4.5/5)
The Shadows Between Us (3.5/5)
The Herd (3.5/5) Home Before Dark (4.5/5) Final Girls (4.5/5) The Whisper Man (4.5/5)
Us Against You (5/5)"The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time."
I don’t think I will ever read another author or another series that cuts me to the core like this. I’ve cried and laughed, I’ve lived.
The City We Became (5/5)" 'I am Manhattan,' he murmurs softly. And the city replies, without words, right into his heart: Welcome to New York."
Both a love letter to New York City, a city so uniquely its own, and a thrilling adventure. This book was absolutely amazing.
Ghosts of Harvard (5/5)"For her, it wasn’t a college, it was a haunted house. And today she was moving in."
This book was heavy, but profound and enthralling. A story of love, loss, hope and remembrance that is sure to stick with you.
