Happy September everyone!!! It’s officially fall spooky season 🧡🍂🍁🎃 the winners for September book club areeee….

A Forbidden Alchemy for the fantasy category and Seed for the horror category!! I am soooo excited for both of these books I cannot wait to get into them! Make sure to click the link to the discord where we will discuss everything

Let’s talk about the books we read in July incase you missed the discussions over on discord. If you haven’t yet please make sure to click the link on my page to join because that is where all the discussions we held!

Our “fantasy” pick was the Hunger Games. I read the entire trilogy in July and this was my second time reading this series! I can’t believe how well this series holds up even after 15 years. At this point in my life, YA books are very hit or miss for me and lately I haven’t been enjoying them as much. But the hunger games truly is so amazing and can be very dark and heavy for a YA story. I absolutely love this series so much and will definitely jump into the prequels in August.

Our thriller pick of the month is Molka by Monika Kim. Another fantastic thriller/horror by this author, she is definitely an auto buy author from now on. I knew spy cams were a thing but I didn’t know the extent of the problem especially in Korea. This story was absolutely vile and disgusting but educational at the same time. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Even though it’s a fictional story, what happens is a real experience for some women. I didn’t love the paranormal aspect of the book I feel like we could have done without that. But other than that, it was a great book and I would definitely continue to recommend it to people!

Happy July everyone!! We have our two winners for our July reads!

We will be doing a Hunger Games reread for the “fantasy/dystopian” category!! You’re also welcome to join if it’s your first time reading the series. It will be so fun to watch everyone read it for the first time too. It’s been around 15 years since I read these books so I am so excited to dive back in and then hopefully read the prequels for the first time afterwards!

Our horror pick for this month will me MOLKA!!! I am SO EXCITED!!

Please make sure to join my discord so that we can all discuss!! Happy reading

Let’s talk about the books we all read in May!

Our fantasy pick was The Bone Ships by RJ Barker. I just finished this a couple of days ago and I unfortunately gave this one 2⭐️. I had a really hard time getting through this book. The beginning was extremely slow and it didn’t have a clear direction and story line until like 150pages into the book. The rest of the book was very slow moving until the very last like 10%. I can see the potential in this series and can understand why a lot of people love it, but personally the writing style and the pacing is not working for me so I will be DNFing the series ☹️

And speaking of DNFing… I did have to DNF our thriller pick, The Maidens by Alex Michaelides. I listened to this on audio and for the first two hours I was so extremely bored and kept zoning out so I decided to start over and try again. I then listened all the way to 80% and just couldn’t do it anymore. I was so extremely bored it felt like a waste of time by that point. I was very disappointed because the silent patient by this author is one of my favorite thrillers of all time. So I am so sorry to those of you who read this for Mays bookclub!

Happy June Everyone! We have some verrrryyy exciting picks for this month!

So for our fantasy book you guys voted for She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan.

The thriller winner is You Did Nothing Wrong by CG Drews

Make sure you join the discord to discuss!!

Let’s talk about the books we all read together in April!

Unfortunately April was a big bust for me. I DNFd our fantasy pick and didn’t love our thriller pick so let’s discuss…

Fantasy: The Book of Fallen Leaves

This was one of my most highly anticipated new releases for 2026. This was pitched as Game of Thrones meets Shogun which are two of some of my favorite shows of all time (I haven’t read the books). I honestly went in pretty blind other than knowing that pitch. I don’t DNF books this early on EVER but I only got 50pages in and knew this book wasn’t going to be for me. I have since seen very many mixed reviews. The book is very slow and dense and within those 50 pages, I had no idea what was happening and where the story was going. If anyone has finished this book please let me know if you enjoyed it and if it’s worth revisiting!

Thriller: If You Lie

I listened to this book on audio and there wasn’t anything necessarily wrong or bad about this book. I think I went in with too high of expectations first of all because I loved You’ll Never Know by the same author. That book was so fast paced from beginning to end I literally could not put it down! But I found If You Lie to be very slow. It’s not a bad book by any means, however, I haven’t thought about it at all since we finished it and there wasn’t much for me to actually discuss with this one.

Let me know your guys thoughts and make sure to join the discord to discuss!! No worries if you didn’t get to these books in April. You can always message in the dedicated chats for these books in the future if you ever decide to read them.

Happy May everyone! I am SOOO excited for this months fantasy and thriller picks!

For fantasy we will be reading The Bone Ships!! I am genuinly so excited to get into this series, it has been sitting on my shelf for awhile

For thriller, we had a tie so guess we will read both!! So we will be reading Strange Pictures and The Maidens! I will be listening to the maidens on audio :)

Make sure to join the discord that’s linked on my page so we can all discuss! Happy reading 🩷