Friday Favourites is going to be a monthly post that talks about my favourite books in certain genres; most likely they'll be catered around seasonal holidays/events. It is essentially five or more mini reviews of some books I really enjoy!
October Friday Favourites: Horror in honour of our favourite spooky month!
1) The Lost Girl by R.L. Stine (Fear Street Relaunch #3)
The Lost Girl is definitely one of the best Stine books I've ever read and as a massive fan of his work, that's a big statement from me! Thanks to the publisher for allowing me to read this book before it's release via Netgalley.
The book starts the same way any of Stine's work does, with a lot of suspense! A young girl named Beth witnesses her father's brutal death at the hands of Martin Dooley, and suddenly we're into the future, and Michael Dooley, his grandson, and his girlfriend; Pepper, befriend the new girl Lizzy. On a dramatic snowmobile ride, themselves, their friends and Lizzy kill a man...And one by one Martin's friend's begin to die.
Does Lizzy have something to do with it?
Halloween is never complete without a Stine book!
2) The Ghost Next Door by R.L. Stine (Goosebumps #10)
Hannah has a horrible dream, fire killing her whole family but when she wakes up everything is fine again...except things have changed. There's people living in the house next door, despite it being empty the day before. Her best friend hasn't wrote from camp. And the boy next door seems to just appear...
The logical conclusion: He's a ghost.
But as people who've read the Goosebumps series know, nothing is as it seems.
3) It by Stephen King
As this book is the reason why a lot of people are afraid of clowns and some people find it triggering to that fear, I won't go into a lot of depth, but you may be thinking, it it really worth it? The answer is YES.
I was apprehensive going into this, it's a very long and very daunting book but the story line is just absolutely genius and although I was scared out of my wits for the most part, I really loved reading this book. I've bought 4 more King books because of it.
4) The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco (The Girl from the Well #1)
But immediately I was obsessed. It was like reading the Ring mixed with an anime, but that was solely due to it's japanese mythological background, with a touch of Dexter with the whole killing bad people thing as that's what the girl from the well does. She takes down the bad people of society, the child molesters etc, and she makes sure they'll never do it again.
It creeped me out to no extent and I was absolutely blown away by the mystery of it, it kind of was like the Ring, so if you like the whole Samara storyline, you'll enjoy this novel!
5) The Fear Street Saga Trilogy Books 1-3 by R.L. Stine
Okay I know that I'm kind of cheating by putting into a trilogy, but hey, this is my blog!
This trilogy is again by R.L. Stine, if you hadn't have guessed by now, he's one of my favourite authors. This was the first trilogy, or first books, I think I ever read that related to the Fear Street series in anyway. Of course I knew of it, but I never really took the chance to read them, and I was so scared reading these books that I stopped reading them at night and had to limit my reading to daytime reading.
They aren't very long, a max of 200 pages per book, and I flew through them. I definitely recommend these for the spookiest time of year!
QOTD: What's your favourite spooky reads/are you planning on reading anything this halloween?
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