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My 2025 reading challenge is closed and completed. For my 2025 Year in Books snapshot, check Goodreads.
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2025 Reading Log (completed titles)
Mystery-Thriller Spotlight
HAVEN’T KILLED IN YEARS
Amy Green
[MYSTERY, THRILLER]
(Release date, November 18, 2025)
Marin Haggerty, the daughter of a notorious serial killer, was only a child when they arrested her father. Ripped from her home and given a new identity, Marin disappeared.
Twenty years later, Gwen Tanner keeps everyone at a distance, preferring to satirize the world around her than participate in it. It’s for her safety—and theirs. But when someone starts sending body parts to her front door, the message is I Know Who You Are.
2025 ARC Titles (Completed)- On to 2026 and New Requests!
He’s The Devil, Toby Coventry READ 📌
Credenza, Wendy Dalrympl READ 📌
My Name Isn’t Paul, Drew Huff READ 📌
Coffin Moon, Keith Rosson READ 📌
Showstopper, Lily Anderson READ 📌
Breathe In, Bleed Out, Brian McAuley READ 📌
Dead of Summer, Jessa Maxwell READ 📌
Mayra: A Novel, Nicky Gonzales READ 📌
How to Survive A Horror Story, Mallory Arnold READ 📌
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread, Leila Taylor READ 📌
Tell Them You Lied, Laura Leffler READ 📌
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig READ 📌
The Summer I Ate The Rich, Maika Moulite READ 📌
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer (S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery, #1), Maxie Dara READ 📌
Latest Book Review
✨ 2.8 ✨
Thank you to Net Galley for the advanced copy of this title. 🦇🕷️🎃👻
HE’S THE DEVIL, Toby Coventry
[Horror, Fiction]
Where to begin. He’s The Devil wasn’t quite what I was expecting, and according to the description, I think I completely missed the mark. While there are moments of humor and the synopsis hints at that, it never fully pulled me in.
I couldn’t connect with the protagonist (or antagonist), Simone—whatever he was meant to be. This is purely a matter of personal taste, but he grated on me from beginning to end. The thirstiness was over the top. I understand the human need for connection and to feel wanted, but everything about him—especially that desperate need to please—drove me a little mad.
Due to its graphic nature, this one may not be everyone’s cup of tea. I didn’t mind that aspect, but I found myself more distracted by trying to figure out whether this entity was a devil, a demon, or some blend of both. Even when its origin was explained, it didn’t bring much clarity. [More]
2025 Book Reviews
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My 2025 Goodreads Challenge [Updated]
Key
🎧 = Owned Audible
💵 = Will purchase
📘 = Owned hardcopy
💻 = Owned Kindle
🏛️ = Library
▶️ = Reading/Listening
📌 = Read
I have officially completed my Goodreads challenge for the year. I’m continuing to finish some titles, but now I get to read whatever I want freely. Below is my initial list, which is (ever) changing.
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he Broken Girls, Simone St. James READ📘📌 Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle READ 🎧The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo READ 📘🏛️The Family Remains, Lisa Jewel READ 🎧📌Don’t Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones READ 📘 🎧Heads Will Roll, John Winning 🎧📌Holly, Stephen King📘📌Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies, Hadley Freedman READ📘📌Murder Road, Simone St. James READ 🎧📌So Thirsty, Rachel Harrison READ 🎧📌The Body, Stephen King READ 🏛️📌The Cursed Among Us, John Durgin READ 🎧📌The Mary Shelley Club, Goldy Moldavsky READ 🎧📌Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo READ 📘📌The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, Paulette Kennedy READ 🎧📌- This Delicious Death, Kayla Cunningham READING 📘
The House that Horror Built, Christina Henry READ 🎧📌Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix READ 🎧📌The House at the End of Lacelean Street, Catherine McCarthy READ 🎧📌This Book Will Bury Me, Ashley Winstead READ 🎧 📌Diavola, Jennifer Thorne READ 🎧 📌Come Closer, Sara Gran READ 🎧 📌Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman READ 🎧 📌The Word Is Murder, Anthony Horowitz READ 🎧 📌
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REMOVED
- When Darkness Loves Us, Elizabeth Engstrom
- A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s, Scott Drebit
- Midnight Showing (Malice Compendium #2), Megan Shepherd
- Their Vicious Games, Joelle Wellington
- 80s Ghosts, V.S.Lawrence
- Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, Jayne Allen
- All Night Horror Show (Friday Night Frights Book 6), Eric Mosher
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