Monthly Wrap-Up: October 2022

I hope you guys had a great Spooky Season! Mine was filled with moving out old furniture, building and moving in new furniture, and redecorating/reorganizing my room... and I'm still not done 🙃

Anyway, this month I read 6 novels, 2 novellas, and 1 comic book, for a total of 9 books and 2384 pages. That's about 700 pages less than last month! But last month I did A LOT of re-reading 😅 This month I only ended up re-reading 2 books. Of the 9 books, 6 were adult, 1 YA, and 2 MG. And 4 were horror, 4 urban fantasy, and 1 mystery thriller.

Books read this month:

Vampiric Vacation was really silly and a little spooky and I really enjoyed it! The kids solved a mystery at a place called Sanguine Spa, so that was fun. I didn’t love it as much as the first book, but it was still good.

Rolling in the Deep and Into the Drowning Deep were about killer mermaids and I loved it! It was such a cool premise! Plus, I really enjoyed all the science (cause I’m a nerd 😆). I felt like the ending was a little anticlimactic, but it was pretty good overall!

And yes, I am still re-reading the Elemental Assassin series 😆 Haints & Hobwebs was a lot of fun because it had ghosts! Well, one ghost. Lol. But it was perfect for spooky season! And then I also re-read Poison Promise which, yes, was great. Lol.

Maniac of New York is a comic book that is very reminiscent of Friday the 13th, so I enjoyed that aspect and just the world in general. I didn't enjoy it as much as volume one—I feel like not much happened in regards to the story—but it was still good.

I was not expecting another Ellie Jordan book this soon, but Fallen Wishes was a nice surprise! And I really liked it! It was spooky and fun, and the investigation itself was very interesting. 17 books into this series and I am still loving it!

Mere Mortals was also a lot of fun! I loved the premise and I found myself grinning often while reading this. I'm still unsure about that ending, but overall I really enjoyed it.

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears had La Llorona in it, which is why I was very excited to read this book! But idk... It was just... fine 🤷‍♀️ It wasn't what I expected, and I haven't figured out why I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. But, I mean, it wasn't bad. It was a fun adventure. I just... don’t know. I wish I loved it more than I did, because the premise was great!

Favorite book of the month:

Excluding re-reads, this is the only other book I gave 5 stars to. I just loved it! Although Into the Drowning Deep is a close second.

Least favorite book of the month:

Even though I liked some more than others, I really did enjoy all the books I read this month.

Books reviewed this month:

Final Grade (Fear Street #30) by R.L. Stine | ★★★☆☆ Her Haunted Heart (B Mine #2) by Brooklyn Ann | ★★★☆☆ The Hitchhiker by R.L. Stine | ★★★☆☆

The Dare (Fear Street #21) by R.L. Stine | ★★☆☆☆ Home Before Dark by Riley Sager | ★★★★★ The Evil Lives! (Fear Street Cheerleaders #5) by R.L. Stine | ★★★☆☆ The Awakening Evil (Fear Street Sagas #10) by R.L. Stine | ★★★☆☆

The Perfect Date (Fear Street #37) by R.L. Stine | ★★☆☆☆ College Weekend (Fear Street #32) by R.L. Stine | ★★★☆☆ Lessons in Terror (Fear Street Collector's Editions #8) by R.L. Stine | ★★★☆☆

Other posts:

Movie Review: Fear Street 1666

Movie Review: There's Someone
Inside Your House

Let me know what your favorite read this month was and what you are looking forward to reading next month!