As Halloween is creeping closure we're bringing you some spooky stories that feature ghosts, there's a little horror, a little thriller and even one fantasy!

In this episode we talk about what each book is about and what we think! These are all on Tali's TBR, so enjoy.

Books discussed in today episode are:

Ghost Eaters - Clay McLeod Chapman

The Reformatory - Tananarive Due

Mary: An Awakening of Terror - Nat Cassidy

Murder Road - Simone St. James

Belladonna - Belladonna #1 - Adalyn Grace

Ninth House - Alex Stern #1 - Leigh Bardugo

Dead Eleven - Jimmy Juliano

My Throat an Open Grave - Tori Bovalino

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This is part of our new ongoing series: a quarterly update on all things reading and life related. Today's episode is covering the 3rd quarter of the year (July, August, September), usually we only do the yearly summaries but we thought it would be fun to do summary updates throughout the year.

Today we talk about:

• A little bit of life
• Total reads for the year so far
• Page stats for the year
• Top reading moods
• Reading speed and book pace stats
• Top genres and authors

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In this indie author (independently published books) recommendation list, we cover new releases due to come out, or that have recently been released. This is an ongoing series where we give indie authors a moment in the spotlight!

Know of/ have an indie book you'd like us to talk about? Submit it here

Books discussed into today's episode are:

• The Tournament of Heirs, The Mexica Chronicles #Book 1 - Amilea Perez
• Mysteries of the Southern Gothic - Jessica Carrasquillo
• The Golden Flower, Golden Book 1 - Stephanie Rose
• Wings of Destiny, Erin Snow 1 - V.M. Pire
• Anarchist Underground: An epic fantasy political intrigue - Nicole Rowles
• Toward Dawning Light, Under Darkened Skies 5, - H.E. Bauman

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This episode covers 9 recommendations from Tali of books by Black British authors, these books range from stories that feature black characters and themes around black identity, to essays and discussions on race, class and the British colonial heritage.

Books discussed in today's episode are:

• The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• Black and British: A Short, Essential History - David Olusoga
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Noughts & Crosses, Noughts & Crosses #1 - Malorie Blackman
• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - Afua Hirsch
• Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
• Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
• Honey & Spice - Bolu Babalola

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Over July and August our buddy read book was My Boss is the Devil by Ben Schenkman! The rules for our buddy reads are simple, we try to pick an indie author whose book is available on Kindle Unlimited and we have two months to read it.

This episode does contain spoilers! In it we talk about the themes, plots and characters in the book and what we did and didn't like.

You can join our next buddy read on Storygraph here, which will be Pumpkin, Spice and Poltergeist by Ali K Mulford and K.Elle. Morrison.

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We haven't come up with a succinct way to summarise this trope, it's basically 'character is injured/ sick and other character takes care of them trope' - this is distinctly different from the 'who hurt you trope', it is very specifically about books where a character is cared for by another, usually the love interest.

Disappointingly for us, but good news for you, this actually turned out to be a really good list! We definitely added a bunch of stuff to our TBR's

Books discussed in today episode are:

• From Lukov with Love - Mariana Zapata
• In Deeper Waters - F.T. Lukens
• Pestilence, The Four Horsemen #1 -Laura Thalassa
• Always Only You, Bergman Brothers #2- Chloe Liese
• Fragile Remedy - Maria Ingrande Mora
• The Nature of Witches - Rachel Griffin
• A Ruin of Roses, Deliciously Dark Fairytales #1 - K.F. Breene
• Divine Blood, Guardians of the Maiden #1 - Beck Michaels
• Easy Tiger, Prickle Island Zoo #2 - Ali K. Mulford
• Kingdom of the Wicked, Kingdom of the Wicked #1 - Kerri Maniscalco
• Six of Crows, Six of Crows #1 - Leigh Bardugo

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After doing vampire recs a few episodes ago, we decided that werewolves were also having a comeback and so Tali pulled together a list of werewolf books that are on her TBR. For this rec list we go through the descriptions of the books and discuss what we know about them and our thoughts.

Books we discuss today are:

• Shadows & Light, Cambric Creek After Darkverse #2 - C.M. Nascosta
• Alpha of Mortal Flesh, Darkmourn Universe #3 - Ben Alderson
• Hemlock Grove, Hemlock Grove #1 - Brian McGreevy
• Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones
• Bride - Ali Hazelwood
• Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
• Such Sharp Teeth - Rachel Harrison
• The Wren in the Holly Library, The Oak and Holly Cycle #1 - K.A. Linde

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It's reading update time! Here's a selection of what we've been reading lately, as usual we've got a lot of fantasy books and Toni has started a new series which she spends a good portion of the middle talking about.

The books we talk about in this episode are:

Toni

• The Amethyst Kingdom
• The Raven Boys
• Bitten by Surprise

Tali

• Twin Crowns
• Scales and Sensibility
• The Marriage Act

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