Thank you, WordPress, for losing my post after I had already written and scheduled it. So, I was saying how I was finding the audiobooks for books, but not the e-books. I was saying how reading In Her Spotlight by Amy Spalding would mean that I have caught up with the Out in Hollywood series, but 25% in the audiobook, I was ready to DNF it, but the next day, I was able to find the ebook, so I finished and gave it 3 stars, but not a bold 3 stars if you can understand what I mean. I have a weird habit of researching old book tags and bringing them back to life. I’m doing the Bedtime Book Tag. I looked, and the original creator is no longer active, so tagging zezeewithbooks, who is still active.
Goodreads Blurb:
We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn’t we?
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door–ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.
The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.
A book that you actually dreamed about
You know, when this happens to me, when I read stories about dogs in books. The reason might be that they touch me deeply.
A book that would be your worst nightmare to live in
Amazon Blurb:
Some houses remember. This one never forgets.
When Nora Alcott and her husband move into their dream smart home, technology promises security, comfort, and peace of mind. Instead, it begins watching her.
A terrified woman appears on the security footage one stormy night—then the recording vanishes without a trace. Doors unlock themselves. Lights dim at impossible hours. The thermostat changes while the app insists nothing is wrong. Every piece of evidence Nora collects disappears by morning.
The police blame stress. Her family blames anxiety. Even her husband gently suggests she needs help.
But Nora knows one terrifying truth.
Someone isn’t just controlling the house.
Someone is rewriting reality.
As she uncovers hidden administrator access, erased surveillance logs, and the disappearance of a woman no one wants to talk about, Nora realises the most dangerous place isn’t inside her home—it’s inside a system designed to make everyone believe she’s losing her mind.
Because if your memories can be manipulated…
How do you prove you’re still sane?
My current read is a random thriller I found for free on Amazon, and it is twisted.
A book cover that reminds you of night time
Goodreads Blurb:
Jude loves photography, and he’s good at it, too. Between his parents’ divorce and his anxiety, being behind a camera is the only time his mind is quiet.
Florence is confronting the premature end of her dance career as a degenerative eye disease begins to steal her balance. She’s having a hard time letting go.
The two meet at Sunrise Night, their sleepaway art camp’s dusk-to-dawn closing celebration, and decide to take a chance on each other. Their one rule: No contact for a year after the sun has risen. Over the course of three Sunrise Nights, will Florence and Jude find a deeper connection and learn who they are—and who they could be together?
A book that has a nightmarish cliffhanger
Goodreads Blurb:
Two graduate students fall in love; one goes missing.…
In the year 2000, Peter Andrassy is heartbroken by the murder of his wife. Widowed for a year and hoping to mend his broken heart, the former NYC detective has returned to his home country of Hungary to work as a private investigator when he’s contacted by an American graduate student who is desperate to find his missing British girlfriend.
A gifted interrogator, Peter senses the boyfriend is intentionally withholding information. Could it be related to sex trafficking? Young women, often foreign, disappear daily in the capital city, never to be seen again. The clock is ticking, and the case is growing cold.
Can Peter find Samantha before it’s too late?
The blurb hooked me, but the ending was ‘what the heck?’
A book monster that you would not want to find under your bed
Goodreads Blurb:
A ghost resides in the walls, and V must decide if it is an ally or an enemy. The wrong decision could destroy her and her family.
After a hard school year, V goes to her Grandma Jojo’s house for the summer to get away from it all. But unlike neurodivergent, artistic, sock-collecting V, Jojo is uptight, critical, and obsessed with her spotless house. She doesn’t understand V, and V is sure she’s doomed to have the worst summer ever.
Then V starts hearing noises coming from inside the house’s walls: knocks, a girl crying, and echoing voices. When she finds a ghostly girl hiding in the walls, they seem to have an immediate connection. This might be V’s chance to get back at her perfect grandmother by messing with her just a little bit.
I get it that this isn’t a monster story, but it gives me the same vibes.
A book that made you go to sleep
Goodreads Blurb:
One last championship. One defiant rookie. One deadly order that could cost Tane Rivers everything—including his heart.
Tane is staring down the barrel of his final season with the Toronto Enforcers. The legendary thirty-eight-year-old is an All-Star veteran who’s given his body, blood, and total loyalty to the franchise. But the Cardini family, the mafia syndicate that runs the team, has other Tane must reign in their explosive new signing, twenty-one-year-old rookie phenom Jacob Gosling.
Jacob is pure chaos on and off the ice. Cocky and instinctive, he lives for the nightlife and the endless high of being the league’s hottest prospect. Defiance is Jacob’s default… until the bosses decide enough is enough.
Tane’s orders from the Cardini family are break the brat’s rebellion, enforce submission by any means. But what begins as tense mentorship erupts into something raw and heated clashes turn into steamy discipline where Jacob learns the sting of Tane’s hand feels better than any party high.
Guided by Tane, Jacob slowly discovers the quiet appeal of cozy nights together and the pull between them deepens into something neither expected.
Then the threats arrive. A rival crime family targets the Enforcers’ playoff run—and Jacob is in the crosshairs. As danger closes in and the season hurtles toward its explosive climax, one final shift could win everything… or lose it all.
If you read my blog often-ish, you know I gave this book my all, but sports romances are a hit or a miss for me. I will keep trying for a win.
A book that left you tossing and turning all night in anticipation of its release
Amazon Blurb:
A MONSTER. A MOTHER. A MURDER?
When Vice Admiral Boyer, RN (retd) died without leaving a will, his estranged daughter inherited his – not inconsiderable – estate. Called home to sort through his belongings, she found an AegisBox – a tamper proof safe within a safe designed to self-destruct if anyone without the code attempts to open it. Unable to walk away without the truth, she uncovered something so horrifying it launched the biggest investigation in the National Crime Agency’s history. Five years later, Washington Poe is unwittingly, and unwillingly, sucked into its gravity…
Finally able to escape the authority they railed against, Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw are enjoying their new jobs as private detectives or – as the sign on their door says – ‘Gumshoes for Hire’. When a teenage girl walks into their office, looking for the mother she long believed to be dead, they agree to take the case. As Poe and Tilly investigate the girl’s claims, they find themselves drawn into a murky world of trafficking, pornography and prostitution. Will they be able to help the girl find her mother, or will the dark forces at work, who will stop at nothing to protect themselves, get there first…
The Washington Poe Series is one of my favourite thriller series, yet I haven’t given any of the books five stars, and I can’t figure out the reason
A book that has your dream boyfriend/girlfriend
I never got one of those, no matter the gender.
I’m tagging some people from my email, so hopefully we can share some book love.
Confessions Of A Serial Reader
Thanks for the tag! I’ll have a wee think.