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For a novella there was a lot of characters, details, world building, and intricate moments which is all King. There were one too many moments that were just slow and King felt the need to take up pages rather than paragraphs to describe the waiting in between the moments of action and character dialogue.

All in all, not my favorite but I finally got this off my TBR.

#popsugarreadingchallenge

Small Favors felt like warm autumn sunshine in the beginning which is an odd way to start a horror novel but I was all for it. Even with the idyllic setting I could feel the tension lurking in the woods. I loved it but then it seemed to drag in the middle. Then the ending disappointed me just a bit. I guessed the big reveal from the moment the character was introduced and the normally astute main character was oblivious.

✅ Sticky Toffee Pudding Tea
✅ Good Book
✅ Giant Blanket
✅ Cloudy Day Bringing In Unseasonably Cool Air

This fall girl‘s heart is happy.

This was a lot sweeter than I anticipated. Rourke and violet are super cute, even if her job is…interesting. I very much enjoyed this book!

The woke media won‘t tell you the truth, but believe me-cryptids are real.
Me, you, CRYPTID CREW!

Such a cute book! The beast is very gentle and loves to eat vegetables but his parents state he's needs to be a mean beast and sends him to the beast brutish school. What happens when he goes to school? Does he become a mean beast? Wonderful graphics and adorable story.

A caution: DO NOT do an image search for said monster. The Montauk Monster is apparently a real cryptid in the area. The images are real but not a cryptid. Can I stop there?

I‘m not native to the NY area so this is new to me. Can we do Chessie or Bigfoot next? Okay, we‘re doing Bigfoot next🤞🏼

This volume gets gory, I‘m fine as it‘s fiction but animal experimentation that I‘m a big NO on.

Fun throwaway scary if you‘re in the mood though.

Great collection of creatures for the scarred land d20 setting!

Fast-paced, snarky, ridiculous, and fun—this was just as expected. During the COVID pandemic, Jamie takes a job working for a secretive “animal rights organization” and finds himself part of a team studying and caring for, well—Kaiju. On an alternate world adjacent to our own. Naturally, hijinks ensue. I read this for my #50x50 challenge, for prompt 12 - a book I gave to someone else but still haven‘t read. (Well, now I have 😆) ⤵️

Creepy, yet also touching?
If Hayao Miyazaki ever went off Studio Ghibli and storyboarded an animated horror movie (there are horror elements - think No Face - in the films he's done) I feel like this is what it would look and feel like.
Young girls dealing with the world but also facing fantastical obstacles, finding friendship. There's also some inventively gross visuals. 😵‍💫 1/2