It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #413: Omg I Finished My First Novel of the Month

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Sunday Post #447: Oh the Chaos...

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #412: I'm Trying

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Sunday Post #446: Just Trying to Survive

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Review: Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Death Games #1) by Kristen Simmons

Title: Find Him Where You Left Him Dead

Series: Death Games #1

Author: Kristen Simmons

Genre: YA, horror, Japanese mythology

Publication date: September 2023

Published by: Tor Teen

Source: Borrowed from library

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Synopsis: Four years ago, five kids started a game. Only four survived.

Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Dax, Maddy, Emerson, and Owen—have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead.

Together they return to the tunnel where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished—an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.

As soon as they begin, they're dragged out of their reality and into an eerie hellscape of Japanese underworlds, more horrifying than even the darkest folktales that Owen's grandmother told him. There, they meet Shinigami, an old wise woman who explains the rules:

They have one night to complete seven challenges or all of them, Ian included, will be stuck in this world forever.

Once inseparable, the survivors now can’t stand each other, but the challenges demand they work together, think quickly, and make sacrifices—blood, clothes, secrets, memories, and worse.

And once again, not everyone will make it out of Meido alive.

My rating: ★★★★☆

I enjoyed this book more than I was anticipating! Listen, horror books can be hit or miss, but this one was definitely a hit!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #411: Five Broken Blades

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #410: I Didn't Get To It Last Week

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #409: I'll Get To It This Week

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Monthly Wrap-Up: February 2025

Still not having a great time, but I technically did read more than last month. Lol. I ended up reading 5 books again, but this time it was around 1296 pages, which is about 200 pages more than last month!

• 2 were full-length novels, and 3 manga
• 4 were part of a series and 1 was a standalone
• I finished 1 series this month!
• All 5 were finished copies
• 1 was a physical book and 4 were an ebooks
• 3 were 4-star reads, 1 was 3.5 stars, and 1 was 3 stars
• All 5 were traditionally published
• 1 was by a new-to-me author and 4 were by authors I've previously read
• 1 was an adult book and 4 YA
• All 5 were fiction books
• 3 were adventure fantasy, and 2 high fantasy