Welcome to Litsy!

New arrival in my bookish family!
It looks great on the hotel's desk 🤣

#newin #annodracula #kimnewman #vampiresobsession #vampires

It took me awhile to get into this story, but I realized it was a story that needed my attention (winter break). Lots of characters but I‘m looking forward to the second book 📖

Modern Gothic ghost story full of family dysfunction, a creepy old house, and ancient spirits. It's a slow burn that leaves you claustrophobic with anxiety at times. I thought this was really good.

#currentlyreading

I finished a #spookyread for #booked2018. 🎉

A family who are tearing themselves apart move into a charmed house in Somerset. Can they learn to live with the existing residents?

The start was intriguing & I quite liked the end, but the middle kind of dragged. (I came v close to bailing - just didn't care enough). Quite fun if you're after a haunted house type thing that's a bit disturbing/creepy/odd rather than scary. But not really my thing.

Day 17 - #ghastly #quotsyoct18

I appear to have started a #spookyread. This is not normal behaviour - I blame #Booked2018. But it has a big old house, and an apple orchard, so it might be right up my street!

Anyhow, have met about 6 #ghosts so far, courtesy of the children's author who used to live in 'The Hollow'. Whether they'd quite as benign when the new family moves in, remains to be seen.
#octoberxfiles

I had high hopes but I couldn't get into the storytelling. Drearcliff is a finishing school that caters to young ladies with extraordinary skills. Amy, who can float, weaves through killer bullies, vicious mean girls, and forms her own Scooby Doo-type club to investigate the academy's many secrets. It's Harry Potter meets Miss Peregrine.

This book is bonkers in a fun zany girls school way that involves inter dimensional war and the most bizarre cast of characters you will ever find in fiction. I dare say you will never look at skipping or ants in quite the same way after reading this book. I loved it.

This was a good ghost story. More creepy and weird than outright terrifying, it nicely ties in with the haunted house story tradition. Recommend!