Dit is toch wel de perfecte tijd om te lezen. Donkere avonden, regen tegen de ramen. Lekker onder een kleedje met jouw favoriete snack en drankje. Kaarsje aan en chillen maar. Speciaal voor Halloween heb ik wat aanraders om te lezen. Het zijn wel allemaal Engelse boeken, maar niet te lastig.
Bride – Ali Hazelwood
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance.
Oke, dit boek is misschien niet erg spooky, maar wel lekker vermakelijk. Hou je van romantische boeken en fantasie dan is dit boek over vampieren en weerwolven zeker wat voor jou.
Hallowe’en Party – Agatha Christie
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce, a hostile thirteen-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.
Weer een klassieke whodunnit van Agatha Christie ertussen, kan nooit missen!
My Best Friend’s Exorcism – Grady Hendrix
Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of E.T., roller-skating parties, and scratch-and-sniff stickers. But when they arrive at high school, things change. Gretchen begins to act….different. And as the strange coincidences and bizarre behavior start to pile up, Abby realizes there’s only one possible explanation: Gretchen, her favorite person in the world, has a demon living inside her.
my best friend’s exorcism is niet enkel een creepy verhaal over een door de duivel bezeten meisje, het is bovenal een verhaal over vriendschap. Dit boek is heerlijk bizar en ja, ik ben sowieso gevallen voor de cover. Ik hou van die 80’s vibe! Er is op Spotify ook een speciale playlist voor dit boek. Als je ervan houdt om achtergrond muziek te hebben tijdens het lezen, raad ik die zeker aan!
Vampires of El Norte – Isabel Canas
As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.
Ik heb zelf altijd een enorme zwak voor vampier verhalen. Combineer dat met Zuid Amerika en ik ben om. Haar vorige boek, La Hacienda over een bezeten huis is ook een echte aanrader.
The Familiar – Leigh Bardugo
Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family’s social position.
Een historisch fictie fantasie boek in Madrid? Count me in.
Starling House – Alix E. Harrow
A grim and gothic tale about a small town haunted by secrets that can’t stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.
Duister, monsters en een oud vervallen huis wat langzaam een thuis wordt. Ik vond dit een heerlijk boek en raad deze zeker aan voor tijdens de donkere maanden.
How to Sell A Haunted House – Grady Hendrix
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston and deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, who never left their hometown, can’t hold a job, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
Elk jaar lees ik wel een Grady Hendrix boek rond Halloween, ze zijn er gewoon perfect voor. Dit jaar is het deze!
The Whispering Dark – Kelly Andrew
Delaney is tired of being seen as fragile just because she’s Deaf. She’s accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she’s excited for the chance to prove herself. Colton Price died when he was nine years old. He woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. Now, twelve years later, Delaney has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton’s been ordered to keep far away from the new girl and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows. Delaney wants to keep her distance from Colton. Yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them, and their forbidden partnership, apart.
Een heerlijk paranormaal/fantasie boek met een hoop mysterie.
Empire of the Vampire – Jay Kristoff
It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains. Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope: The Holy Grail.
Ik las dit boek toen het net uit was en vond het fantastisch. Vampieren, een duistere wereld, noem maar op. Ik wil deze graag nog eens herlezen voordat ik het volgende boek in de serie lees.
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