Showing posts with label Stephen Graham Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Graham Jones. Show all posts

Monday, November 4, 2024

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #700, November 4th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #699
Teaser Tuesday #707
WWW Wednesday #707
WOW #703
Will the Time Come #700
Third Sentence Thursday #690
Random Reads #676
First Lines Friday #703
Book Blogger Hop #369
Monthly Series November Round Up
24 Books to Read in 2024 Update 8
The Reward Challenge Update #685
Wheel of TBR #232
How Well I Stuck to It #537
Wrote that Review Update #534

Week 44 Reviews:

Becca's BookoplAthon: 

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Clear Your S**t Readathon: 

Next to be Published November: 

Phase Out Your TBR: 

Random:
Alex Aster Author Page

OK, so I got 67 posts in 7 days, and it was a pretty good week, I read some great books, and I'm so excited for this coming week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Bonded in Death and Installment Immortality!

The #1 New York Times bestselling author spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war…

His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes…

Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She’s got an elderly victim who’d just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he’d left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition. But when she finds a connection to the Urban Wars of the 2020s, she thinks Summerset―fiercely loyal, if somewhat grouchy, major-domo and the man who’d rescued her husband from the Dublin streets―may know something from his stint as a medic in Europe back then.

When Summerset learns of the crime, his shock and grief are clear―because, as he eventually reveals, he himself was one of The Twelve. It’s not a part of his past he likes to revisit. But now he must―not only to assist Eve’s investigation, but because a cryptic message from the killer has boasted that others of The Twelve have also died. Summerset is one of those who remain―and the murderous mission is yet to be fully accomplished…
Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with a whirlwind adventure....

After four generations of caring for the Price family, Mary Dunlavy has more than earned a break from the ongoing war with the Covenant of St. George. Instead, what she's getting is a new employer, in the form of the anima mundi, Earth's living soul made manifest, and a new assignment: to hunt down the Covenant agents on the East Coast and make them stop imprisoning America's ghosts.

All in a day's work for a phantom nanny, even one who'd really rather be teaching her youngest charges how to read.

One ghost can't take on the entire Covenant without backup, which is how she winds up on a road trip with the still-mourning Elsie and the slowly collapsing Arthur, both of whom are reeling in their own way from the loss of their mother. New allies and new enemies await in Worcester, Massachusetts, where the path of the haunting leads.

With the anima mundi demanding results and Mary's newfound freedom at stake, it's down to Mary to make sure that everyone gets out of this adventure alive.

It's been a long afterlife, but Mary Dunlavy's not ready to be exorcised quite yet.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Week 44 Review: I Was a Teenage Slasher

From Goodreads:
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.

My Review:


Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Read: October 26th, 2024
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: Sounded really good and I enjoy his writing, and it's a SAC 2024 Book! 
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
Published: July 26th 2024 
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Monday, October 28, 2024

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #699, October 28th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #698
Teaser Tuesday #706
WWW Wednesday #706
WOW #702
Will the Time Come #699
Third Sentence Thursday #689
Random Reads #675
First Lines Friday #702
Book Blogger Hop #368
24 Books to Read in 2024 Update 7
The Reward Challenge Update #684
Wheel of TBR #231
How Well I Stuck to It #536
Wrote that Review Update #533

Week 43 Reviews:
The Hunt

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Becca's Spookoplathon: 

Random:

OK, so I got 46 posts in 7 days, which is a pretty good week, I read some really great books, so I'm happy with this week and I can't wait for next week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever I want that's left from my TBR's! 

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Week 43 Review: The Angel of Indian Lake

From Goodreads:
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature

It's been four years since Jade Daniels last set foot in Proofrock, Idaho. Since then, her reputation, and everything around Indian Lake, has changed dramatically. There's a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there’s one aspect of the savage history of Proofrock, Idaho, no one’s got the mettle to confront – no one except a final girl, making her last stand, this time for everything.

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones has crafted an epic horror trilogy of generational trauma and stolen hope. It's the story of the American West written in blood. And it’s the story of one girl who doesn’t know how to give up.

My Review:


Author: Stephen Graham Jones 
Series: The Indian Lake Trilogy #3
Read: October 24th, 2024
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: Love his writing and this series, and it's a End of Series 2024 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book! 
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
Published: March 26th 2024
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Becca's BookoplAthon Update 30

So I read my next book for Becca's BookoplAthon, Roll as You Go edition, and it was The Angel of Indian Lake which is for the prompt Black, and I'll be rolling for what I'm reading next below! 

My Reading Journey:

The Wrong Bride by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe
Prompt Fulfilled: Present
Started On: October 1st
Finished On: October 1st, 2:01 PM
Pages Read: 344

Scribbled in Margins by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Community Shelf
Started On: October 1st
Finished On: October 1st, 11:58 PM
Pages Read: 101

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Prompt Fulfilled: Ghost Tour
Started On: October 2nd
Finished On: October 2nd, 9:54 PM
Pages Read: 368

Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn
Prompt Fulfilled:  Stabby
Started On: October 3rd
Finished On: October 3rd, 10:59 PM
Pages Read: 368

How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
Prompt Fulfilled: Go
Started On: October 4th
Finished On: October 4th, 10:34 PM
Pages Read: 320

Fumiko and the Finicky Nestmate by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Past
Started On: October 5th
Finished On: October 5th, 10:25 PM
Pages Read: 426

There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
Prompt Fulfilled: Poll
Started On: October 6th
Finished On: October 6th, 9:56 PM
Pages Read: 320

Serial Killer Games by Kate Posey
Prompt Fulfilled: Pentacle
Started On: October 7th
Finished On: October 7th, 8:30 PM
Pages Read: 384

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Prompt Fulfilled: Mood Read
Started On: October 8th
Finished On: October 8th, 5:31 PM
Pages Read: 444

A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth
Prompt Fulfilled: Big Book
Started On: October 9th
Finished On: October 9th, 11:50 PM
Pages Read: 640

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Prompt Fulfilled: Pumpkin Carving
Started On: October 10th
Finished On: October 10th, 6:39 PM
Pages Read: 352

Whispers Most Foul by Emma MacDonald
Prompt Fulfilled: Ghostface
Started On: October 11th
Finished On: October 11th, 11:25 PM
Pages Read: 380

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne
Prompt Fulfilled: Pentacle
Started On: October 12th
Finished On: October 12th, 7:24 PM
Pages Read: 336

Halloween for Six by Kelly Finley
Prompt Fulfilled: Dice Roll
Started On: October 13th
Finished On: October 13th, 11:30 PM
Pages Read: 412

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Prompt Fulfilled: Seance
Started On: October 14th
Finished On: October 14th, 9:24 PM
Pages Read: 480

Januaries by Olivie Blake
Prompt Fulfilled: Community Shelf
Started On: October 15th
Finished On: October 15th, 1:05 PM
Pages Read: 480

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
Prompt Fulfilled: Present
Started On: October 15th
Finished On: October 15th, 5:37 PM
Pages Read: 348

A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison
Prompt Fulfilled: Jason Voorhees
Started On: October 15th
Finished On: October 15th, 9:51 PM
Pages Read: 495 

When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
Prompt Fulfilled: Feed Scroll
Started On: October 16th
Finished On: October 16th, 11:08 PM
Pages Read: 736

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
Prompt Fulfilled: Grady Hendrix
Started On: October 17th
Finished On: October 17th, 11:48 AM
Pages Read: 337

All Fall Down by Ally Carter
Prompt Fulfilled: Chance Card
Started On: October 17th
Finished On: October 17th, 8:01 PM
Pages Read: 320

Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban
Prompt Fulfilled: Stabby
Started On: October 18th
Finished On: October 18th, 10:38 PM
Pages Read: 400

The Beyond by Chloe Neill
Prompt Fulfilled: Pumpkin Carving
Started On: October 19th
Finished On: October 19h, 7:15 PM
Pages Read: 336

The Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs
Prompt Fulfilled: Present 
Started On: October 20th
Finished On: October 20h, 6:47 PM
Pages Read: 290

Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
Prompt Fulfilled: Blood
Started On: October 21st
Finished On: October 21st, 10:05 PM
Pages Read: 464

The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling
Prompt Fulfilled: Mood Read
Started On: October 22nd
Finished On: October 22nd, 2:05 PM
Pages Read: 352

A Wild and Ruined Song by Ashley Shuttleworth
Prompt Fulfilled: Spoopy
Started On: October 22nd
Finished On: October 22nd, 9:55 PM
Pages Read: 432 

Stalked by the Kraken by Lillian Lark
Prompt Fulfilled: Small Book
Started On: October 23rd
Finished On: October 23rd, 1:03 PM
Pages Read: 252

Deceived by the Gargoyles by Lillian Lark
Prompt Fulfilled: Leatherface
Started On: October 23rd
Finished On: October 23rd, 5:01 PM
Pages Read: 414

The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
Prompt Fulfilled: Black
Started On: October 24th
Finished On: October 24th, 10:39 PM
Pages Read: 528

Books Read: 30
Pages Read: 11991

Day 25, Roll 31:
A 5, which gets me to Pentacle. I chose The Demon's Queen by Katee Robert, I just want to read it, and I know I'll love it! 

Monday, October 21, 2024

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #698, October 21st

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #697
Teaser Tuesday #705
WWW Wednesday #705
WOW #701
Will the Time Come #698
Third Sentence Thursday #688
Random Reads #674
First Lines Friday #701
Book Blogger Hop #367
Monthly ARC's Update 93
The Reward Challenge Update #683
Wheel of TBR #230
How Well I Stuck to It #535
Wrote that Review Update #532

Week 42 Reviews:
Pressed Into Service
Lying in the Deep


OK, so I got 48 posts in 7 days, so it was a decent week, but a hard personal week, because Friday was the 1 year anniversary of putting Dobby down, so that hurt. But he wasn't in pain longer. But anyways, I'm glad that's done. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret!


Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, "deviously good fun" (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.

My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional masters of the art of misdirection.

THE MAGICIAN

THE ASSISTANT

THE EXECUTIVE

THE HYPNOTIST

THE IDENTICAL TWIN

THE COUNSELLOR

 THE TECH

My clues are even more A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it's Christmas.

If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it.

After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn't it?

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Week 42 Review: The Last Final Girl

From Goodreads:
Life in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die.

Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone's got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You're from this town.

Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay. She's just barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer, alone, bra-less. Her story is already a legend. She's this town's heroic final girl, their virgin angel.

Monster Vision: Halloween masks floating down that same river the kids jump into. But just as one slaughter is not enough for Billie Jean, our masked killer, one victory is not enough for Lindsay. Her high school is full of final girls, and she's not the only one who knows the rules of the game.

When Lindsay chooses a host of virgins, misfits, and former final girls to replace the slaughtered members of her original homecoming court, it's not just a fight for survival-it's a fight to become The Last Final Girl.

My Review:


Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Read: October 17th, 2024
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2024 Book!
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
Published: December 22nd 2012
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Week 42 Reviews: My Heart is a Chainsaw, Don't Fear the Reaper


From Goodreads:
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.

Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.

From Goodreads:
December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author, Stephen Graham Jones.

Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.

Dark Mill South's Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday.

Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.

Don't Fear the Reaper is the page-turning sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones.

My Review:


Author: Stephen Graham Jones 
Series: The Indian Lake Trilogy #1, 2
Read: October 14th, 14th, 2024
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a Prequel & sequel Challenge 2024 Books! 
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Published: August 31st 2021, February 7th 2023

My Heart is a Chainsaw:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








Don't Fear the Reaper:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Stephen Graham Jones Author Page

The Story:I saw his books around, like on Katee Robert's TikTok, and they sounded good, and I was prompted, and I read the first 2 books in the Indian Lake Trilogy and they were so good and I can't wait to read more by Stephen Graham Jones! 

Website

Series: The Indian Lake Trilogy.

Monday, October 14, 2024

Becca's BookoplAthon Update 15

So I read my next book for Becca's BookoplAthon, Roll as You Go edition, and it was Don't Fear the Reaper which is for the prompt Seance, and I'll be rolling for what I'm reading next below! 

My Reading Journey:

The Wrong Bride by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe
Prompt Fulfilled: Present
Started On: October 1st
Finished On: October 1st, 2:01 PM
Pages Read: 344

Scribbled in Margins by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Community Shelf
Started On: October 1st
Finished On: October 1st, 11:58 PM
Pages Read: 101

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Prompt Fulfilled: Ghost Tour
Started On: October 2nd
Finished On: October 2nd, 9:54 PM
Pages Read: 368

Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn
Prompt Fulfilled:  Stabby
Started On: October 3rd
Finished On: October 3rd, 10:59 PM
Pages Read: 368

How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
Prompt Fulfilled: Go
Started On: October 4th
Finished On: October 4th, 10:34 PM
Pages Read: 320

Fumiko and the Finicky Nestmate by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Past
Started On: October 5th
Finished On: October 5th, 10:25 PM
Pages Read: 426

There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
Prompt Fulfilled: Poll
Started On: October 6th
Finished On: October 6th, 9:56 PM
Pages Read: 320

Serial Killer Games by Kate Posey
Prompt Fulfilled: Pentacle
Started On: October 7th
Finished On: October 7th, 8:30 PM
Pages Read: 384

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Prompt Fulfilled: Mood Read
Started On: October 8th
Finished On: October 8th, 5:31 PM
Pages Read: 444

A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth
Prompt Fulfilled: Big Book
Started On: October 9th
Finished On: October 9th, 11:50 PM
Pages Read: 640

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Prompt Fulfilled: Pumpkin Carving
Started On: October 10th
Finished On: October 10th, 6:39 PM
Pages Read: 352

Whispers Most Foul by Emma MacDonald
Prompt Fulfilled: Ghostface
Started On: October 11th
Finished On: October 11th, 11:25 PM
Pages Read: 380

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne
Prompt Fulfilled: Pentacle
Started On: October 12th
Finished On: October 12th, 7:24 PM
Pages Read: 336

Halloween for Six by Kelly Finley
Prompt Fulfilled: Dice Roll
Started On: October 13th
Finished On: October 13th, 11:30 PM
Pages Read: 412

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Prompt Fulfilled: Seance
Started On: October 14th
Finished On: October 14th, 9:24 PM
Pages Read: 480

Books Read: 15
Pages Read: 5675

Day 15, Roll 16:

A 7, which gets me to Community Shelf. Using a random list generator, I got Read a book with a one-word title, I chose Januaries by Olivie Blake!