katee robert

BOOKENDS: What I Read in October 2024

- Meg

I read a LOT in October. aka a lot of KU novellas for spooky season! I very much enjoyed the fae countryside fantasy vibes of The Good and the Green and I hope to read the follow ups of this soon!! I continued Bennett’s historical romance series with Curled Up with an Earl and enjoyed it! Spookily Yours was a candy sweet Halloween romance (the hero is a cat). I revisited The House of Mirth for the first time in twelve years, and it brought me back to my last semester of undergrad and brought up a deep reflection on the passage of time. Robert’s follow up in The Kraken’s Secret was enjoyable (and I still wish these had more)!! The Kindle Unlimited series had either hits or misses, and Joe Hill and Josh Malerman were my favorites.

WHAT I READ

💖 purchased/owned | 🌠 library/borrowed | 🔮 review copy | 💞 reread | 👻 dnf

🌠 The Good and the Green, by Amy Yorke
💖 Curled Up With an Earl, by Amy Rose Bennett
🌠 Spookily Yours, Jennifer Chipman
💖💞 The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
🌠 The Pram, by Joe Hill
🌠 Ankle Snatcher, by Grady Hendrix
🌠 It Waits in the Woods, by Josh Malerman
🌠 In Bloom, by Paul Tremblay
🌠 Big Bad, by Chandler Baker
💖 The Kraken’s Sacrifice, by Katee Robert
🌠 Best of Luck, by Jason Mott

BOOKENDS: What I Read in September 2024

- Meg

September was a very meh reading month. Work was busy, I had car troubles that took up a lot of attention, and things weren’t great all around!! I did enjoy The Duke and the Dressmaker as a little historical romance palate cleanser. Everything else I thought should have been more fleshed out and longer!!! However, The Dragon’s Bride was very fun, and even though I wanted more, it stood on its own. The novellas from Kindle Unlimited often feel like starters, something that could eventually be built into a longer work, but is ultimately left as it is. The others were not even really worth revisiting for me, and I was disappointed in the execution of Squirrel Meets World and The Gothic. Peg and Rose Solve a Murder looks like it should have been more fun and have some of that spry old person/Golden Girls vibes, but it felt very bitter.

WHAT I READ

💖 purchased/owned | 🌠 library/borrowed | 🔮 review copy | 💞 reread | 👻 dnf

💖 The Dragon’s Bride, by Katee Robert
🌠 The Duke and the Dressmaker, by Eva Devon
💖 Squirrel Meets World, by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale
💖 Peg and Rose Solve a Murder, by Laurien Berenson
💖 The Gothic, by Nick Groom
🌠 The Backbone of the World, by Stephen Graham Jones
🌠 Bloody Summer, by Carmen Maria Machado
🌠 A Righteous Man, by Tochi Onyebuchi
🌠 Stag, by Karen Russell