5 On My TBR | Halloween

As we’ve mentioned before, one of our most important reading goals of is shrinking our physical TBR’s. Sometimes it’s hard to think of what books we still have or what subjects to read about. So we needed a way to keep track of this. 5 On My TBR is a way of keeping track. This is a meme hosted by E from Local Bee Hunter’s Nook. Every week there’s a different prompt for five on my TBR.

This week’s topic is a Halloween freebie, so I decided to pick 5 books on my shelves that have a Halloween vibe. That vibe can be based on a couple of things so let’s jump in and see which books on my shelves I think give off Halloween vibes!

1. The Devouring Gray – Christine Lynn Herman

This cover combined with the title already screams Halloween to me! I loved All of Villains which is cowritten by this author so I have high hopes for this one. It sounds like a book I would really enjoy and the vibe is perfect to read this week.

2. Sawkill Girls – Claire Legrand

This is tagged as a horror and that is probably the reason I haven’t read this one yet. I’m not a horror reader at all and no I don’t know why I bought this book. There must have been a reason and I do see a ton of really positive reviews from people I follow but I don’t know why I decided I needed this book haha. Either way, it does sound like a good Halloween book!

3. Not Even Bones – Rebecca Schaeffer

Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market — until she’s betrayed. With a synopsis like that I’m mad at myself that I still haven’t read this one yet. It sounds like my kind of book and the fact that the author said this;

Many will call my main characters monsters. Many will call them villains.

They would be right.

I wrote this book for the people who watched movies as children and screamed, “why don’t you just kill the bad guy already???” For the people who watched heroes proselytize on screen and said, “It’s not that simple.” For the people who watched the villains with fascination and whispered softly, where the normal, good, proper people wouldn’t hear, “I want to see their story.”

This, my friends, is their story.

If you’re still interested, then, please, crack open the cover and delve into the darkness. But you’ve been warned.

Here be monsters.

Makes me believe this is for sure a Halloween read, and one I will love. I’m currently debating if this should be my next read….

4. The Dark Vault – V.E. Schwab

This is a bind-up of all of the books in the Archived series and I think it’s a perfect Halloween read. Part of the synopsis reads: Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Doesn’t get much more Halloween than that right? I don’t even have to read the rest of the synopsis to know that this is book I would love to read during Halloween.

5. Hocus Pocus & the All New Sequel – A.W. Jantha

Of course I had to add this one! I bought this one years ago especially to read around Halloween. But I didn’t the year I got the book, or the year after, or the year after that, or….. And now I still have it waiting for me. It can only be read this time of year, so if I don’t read it the coming days, it will have to wait another year…

Five books on my TBR that give off major Halloween vibes! Talking about them got me really excited about all of them to be honest haha. I would love to hear which one you think I should pick up first!

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