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2 months ago

✨️Follow me, if this is your vibe! ✨️

These are some of my favourite horror-tropes in books! With some books I already read + some on my TBR 📚

❔️What is your favourite trope?
❔️What book(s) would you add? by @marlease.reads

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2 months ago

Introducing my new Rating System! ✨️
I used to avoid reviewing a book with ratings, until now!

I always find it so difficult to categorize a book in 1-5 numbers. So, I made this Rating System as a guide for myself, so you can see what I mean by a rating. Rating is still very subjective and based on how much I enjoyed a book! 👻

❔️Do we rate alike or is yours completely different?

#ratingsystem #thrillerbookreviews #horrorbookreviews by @marlease.reads

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7 months ago

🍁My Autumn Ritual🍁

🎃 I thought I'd tag along with this trend! If you see this tag, you're it! 🎃

6 Horror-books I plan to read
6 Series or movies I plan to watch
6 Things to summon me

#autumnritual #halloweenbooks #bookishhalloween by @marlease.reads

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5 days ago

🪡Did thou hearest? The Stitch Witches is out! 🧵

Thanks to Quill & Crow Publishing House and the author Krissie K. Williams for providing me with an ARC-copy though NetGalley!✨️

Set in New England, 1700’s, a Puritan village is shaken up by a mysterious death. The Stitch Witches is a historical, fast-paced and gripping story that captivated me immediately.

I read in the acknowledgements that the author is a historian. Krissie knows how to enlighten readers about Puritan customs and hypocrisy while horrify them with this great witchy story as well. As a reader you get to know a lot of characters, some with funny names. Sometimes I had a bit of difficulty to keep apart whose who. This book made me root for Settie so much, I also loved the unlikely bond between Settie and Orphelia.

I was glad this was a witchy story less focused on fantasy elements, but purely a horror- historical fiction. I thought Slewfoot was quite fantasy-heavy in comparison.

The only thing I’d like a bit more, was some background/ lore on the Stitch Witches. They’re still a bit of a mystery. Also, a bit more information on the witch trials that occured 30 years ago in the book. The ending was quite quick but very satisfying.
Definitely pick this one up today if you’re looking for a perfect Halloween book!

❔️What is your perfect witchy book?

#historicalfiction #witchybooks #thestitchwitches
#halloweenbooks by @marlease.reads

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7 days ago

✨️Book- review of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova ✨️
Swipe for synopsis and review!

I am going to keep this review very short: What a beautifully bizarre book this was. It explores the topic of what it means to be human and centers mostly around dealing with grief and letting go. The story is told in four parts, each from a different POV of a family member.

I’m not sure if I would say this is a horror but there are definitely horror-elements and some body horror. I wasn’t expecting so much kink, but it does fit this story anyway 🙂

If you need a story to get you out of your reading slump, get emotionally invested and root for the monster: pick this one up! I expected something very different but was pleasantly surprised.

❔️What book is your must-read for Halloween?

#monstrilio #horrorbookrecs #spooktober #halloweenreads by @marlease.reads

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11 days ago

✨️ September Recap ✨️

These are the books I read in September! I liked the Creeper and 20% off best. I think Wake Up and Open Your Eyes and Between Two Fires didn't click for me for some reading as it did for most people. But that's fine!

I got a bunch of physical books this past week to fill up ny new bookshelf. A flatlay is coming of those soon 😊

❔️What was your favorite book this month?

#septemberrecap #monthlywrapup #monthlywrapupreads by @marlease.reads

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15 days ago

✨️It's my Booksta Birthday! ✨️

I am turning 1! 👶

My friend pointed out to me that I made my booksta today, last year. I knew somewhere at the start of october but in reality it was still september.

Here's a not much shown picture of my face, swipe for derp 🤣

I am so grateful for the booksta community, thanks everyone for making me feel welcome! 🥰

I am holding the book Monstrilio, that I am reading and loving at the moment!

❔️How old is your bookstagram baby?

#bookstagrambday #bookstabirthday #monstrilio #horrorbookstagram by @marlease.reads

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17 days ago

🪩 Sunday Shelfie 🪩

My first!! Two weeks ago I assembled this beautiful rotating bookshelf I've been eyeing for some time! ✨️

I used to read on my ereader more often because I didn't have much space to store books. Now, I need to buy more books to fill the shelves (oh no). I need your help to fill these 😄

❔️What (physical) books should I add to my shelf? 👀

#sundayshelfie #horrorbooks #horrorbookstagrammer by @marlease.reads

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a month ago

Book review time! ✨️
The Creeper by A.M. Shine 👻
Swipe for synopsis and review!

This was the runner up to be picked for the @dontreadalonebookclub this month, but the most-voted book was not really available easily (or expensivily) in my country so I decided to read the Creeper anyway!

Also quite relieved today as I had a hospital appointment that I was dreading for weeeks, ugh. Going into the weekend relieved 🙌

❔️What's your favourite folk-horror book?

#thecreeper #horrorbookreviews #horrorbookstagrammer by @marlease.reads

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a month ago

✨️ Happy Pub-day to these two authors! ✨️

Saratoga Schaefer
A Thousand Monstrous Forms 🖼

Simon F. Godin
In Their Eyes 👀

These books are out today, so make sure to check them out! You can find my reviews on my page.

❔️Have you read these already? What did you think?

#intheireyes
#athousandmonstrousforms
#happypubday by @marlease.reads

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a month ago

Get 20% Off Your First Demon This Halloween 👹
By Michael D.A. Clarke

Swipe for the synopsis and my thoughts below!
Thanks to the the author for providing this copy! And the good thing is, it is already out! ✨️

Need something or someone out of your life? Go to a graveyard and scream Whasssuuuuup!!
After that the possibilities are endless.

This book is definitely unlike one I’ve ever read. I loved to read about the different revenge missions and setting those perpetrators straight in each gory way. ‘’Get 20% off’’ is written humouristically but the problem it addressess is very real such as physical and mental abuse. The revenge stories were sooo satisfying, and I think sometimes people would’ve liked such a company at their disposal.

If you looking for a short, very entertaining read that leaves you cackling on the one hand and slightly horrified at the other, check this book out! I am looking forward to part two.

Quote 💬
“Conversation became strategy. Every sentence measured. Every word pre-approved in her head before it left her mouth”.

❔️What book do you recommend for Halloween? 🎃

#revengehorrorbooks #horrorbookrecs #horrorbookreview by @marlease.reads

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