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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 The Girlfriend

by R.L. Stine

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Genre: Horror / YA

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MY REVIEW

Scotty did that bad thing that many young men do. He cheated on his girlfriend, Lora. And now he’s gonna pay for it. The other girl, Shannon. won’t leave him alone. She’ll go any lengths to keep him. “You’re my baby now.”

Scotty made me angry. He cheated on his girlfriend. I was surprised that he turned into a sympathetic character for me. It was a common mistake where you whether you were young or older but not wiser. I started to feel sorry for him. Especially when Shannon got more and more determined to make him hers.

R. L. Stine always promises a good scare. Beware…… This one is scary good.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

She’s bad. So bad…

Scotty has the perfect life. And the perfect girlfriend. But one weekend while she’s away, Scotty goes just a little…astray.

Suddenly he has a new girlfriend. One who won’t go away. His one wild night has become a nightmare.

Because his new girlfriend has decided that she loves Scotty…to death.

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I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the HOUSE OF ELEPHANTS by Claribel A. Ortega Blog Tour hosted by 
Rockstar Book Tours.

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Check out my review and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

HOUSE OF ELEPHANTS (Witchlings #3)

Author: Claribel A. Ortega

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Pub. Date: October 1, 2024

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Formats:  Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 432

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Find it: Goodreadshttps://books2read.com/HOUSE-OF-ELEPHANTS 

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From New York Times bestselling
and award-winning author Claribel A. Ortega: The third bookin the spellbinding
Witchlings series!

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It’s been months since the end of the
Golden Frog Games, and a cure for the hex that turned young witches to stone
still hasn’t been found. Seven and Thorn want nothing more than to find a way
to heal their friends, but everything they try ends in failure.

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When the Black Moon Ceremony arrives
earlier than expected, Seven and Thorn take it as a chance to welcome any new
Spares into their coven. But rather than welcoming a few Spares like they
thought, all the witchlings in the ceremony are chosen to
enter the Spare coven!

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The new Spares are met with anger
from the Hill Society. They create more unfair laws that ban Spares from using
magic and being equals in Twelve Towns society! On top of all that, Spares
start disappearing. And no one seems to care.

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As Seven and Thorn struggle to find a
cure for the stone hex and to stop the Twelve Town’s unfair treatment of Spares
once and for all, they discover a piece of hidden history that will change
everything-if they can get anyone to listen to them.

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WITCHLINGS series now!

 

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MY REVIEW

Such a magical, fun read. There was magic, witches, danger, silliness and fun characters. I started reading this on a Saturday morning and my cuppa hot tea was cold when I finished. Read it straight through. And had a smile on my face.

The cover is bold and exciting. And I love the fun illustrations at the beginning of the chapters.

This was my first foray into the Witchlings series and I had so much fun. I easily jumped into the series without having read the prior books and it would be great to go back and read from the beginning. Whether you are a young reader or an adult, you’ll have a blast with it.

4 STARS

 

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About Claribel A. Ortega:

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Claribel A. Ortega, New York
Times bestselling author of
Ghost Squad, Witchlings, and Frizzy (Pura
Belpre Award-winner), is a former reporter who writes middle grade and young
adult fantasy inspired by her Dominican heritage. When she’s not busy turning
her obsession with eighties pop culture, magic, and video games into books,
she’s cohosting her podcasts Write or Die and Bad Author Book Club
and helping authors navigate publishing with her consulting business, GIFGRRL.
Claribel has been featured on BuzzFeed, NPR, Good Morning America, and
Deadline. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok at
@Claribel_Ortega and on her website at claribelortega.com.
 

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Savage

by Thomas E. Sniegoski

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Genre: Horror / YA

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MY REVIEW

The synopsis and cover had me itching to read this. Had my fingers and toes crossed that it would live up to those. Sadly, I wasn’t wowed. It was okay. Just didn’t quite give me what I needed.

A violent storm is headed for the island. People were scrambling to find safety from it. But, there was more than the weather to worry about. Animals started running amok, attacking anyone they encountered. The deaths piled up. What caused the animals to act so strangely? Would anyone survive?

As I mentioned, the story didn’t wow me, but I did like it. There were some exciting attack scenes. Just needed something else. Not sure what though.

3 STARS

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Synopsis

Sidney and her friends must race to find the origin of a storm that has hit their small island home—turning every animal into savage weapons—in this suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author, Thomas E. Sniegoski.

The future is looking bright for Sidney Moore as she as she gets ready to leave the small island of Benediction behind for one of Boston’s top veterinary schools. Only a few small bumps in the road to navigate before she can go—her father’s recovery from a debilitating stroke, and her own guilt for ending her relationship with her high school sweetheart. But she’s always been strong willed, and she’s not about to let anything stop her from achieving her goals.

Now a storm is bearing down on Benediction, a hurricane that will bring devastating winds and rain, rising tides…and something else. Something deadly; something that will transform all the things that creep, crawl, and flutter into instruments of terror and death.

The future is looking bright for Sidney Moore…if only she can survive the storm.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Camp Twisted Pine

by Ciera Burch

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Genre: Horror / Middle Grade / Mystery

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MY REVIEW

It’s weird how much I’m drawn to stories that involve summer camp. Probably because I never went to one. The author made me feel like I had after reading this book. Took me back too. To when we’d go to the summer cabin on the lake. “She hated how the trees blocked out the rest of the world, branches overlapping like the fingers of clasped hands, absorbing light and sound.”  I really felt that situation. That excitement and mystery and little bit of trepidation when I’d go for walks in the vast woods behind the cabin.

Naomi was a gem. She put on a brave face and tried to make the best of it when her parents announced they were getting divorced and the kids were being sent to summer camp. It didn’t seem so bad at first. But then people started disappearing. Something was out there in the woods. Naomi stepped up her game to save everyone. I’d like to think I was as brave as Naomi. Had her ingenuity. Who knows what I’d do. I’m thinking maybe I was lucky I never went to camp. LOL.

This was incredibly engaging. The characters were well written and spoke to me in their appropriate age voices. The adventures were fun. And the suspense and sense of danger had me burning the midnight oil to get to the end. Super fun for all ages.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

Whispering Pines meets Small Spaces in this spooky middle grade novel about a girl whose first summer camp experience is disrupted by a menacing creature abducting her fellow campers.

Eleven-year-old Naomi loves all things outdoors—birds and beetles, bats and bunnies—in theory. She explores nature in the best possible the cold, hard facts in books. So when her parents’ announcement of their impending divorce comes hand in hand with sending Naomi and her younger twin brothers to summer camp while they figure things out, it’s salt in the wound for Naomi and her avoidance of hands-on experience. Camp Twisted Pine could be worse. The counselors are nice, and Naomi likes her cabinmates, especially Jackie, whose blunt personality and frank dislike of the camp draws Naomi in quickly. Jackie is also hard of hearing and uses a hearing aid, and the girls quickly develop a routine of sign language lessons in their free time, which Naomi sees as a welcome break when all the s’mores-making and nature walks get to be a bit much. But the campers aren’t the only ones who roam the grounds of Camp Twisted Pine. When people start to go missing, including Jackie, Naomi has to find a way to save everyone—and herself. Her practical knowledge of the outdoors may still be rudimentary at best, but she has years of studying and the scientific method to fall back on. Can Naomi identify and stop the dangerous predator before it’s too late?

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 The Beast Of Barcroft

by Bill Schweigart

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Genre: Horror / Supernatural

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MY REVIEW

This book took me back to when I was in my early teens. I went to bed. Got up the next day and a house that wasn’t there the day before was now in the once vacant lot beside my house. It was kind of rundown and the neighbors junked up their yard.  Not saying that happened in this book, just that every neighborhood has one of those problem houses.

The Bancroft House is one of those problem houses. The older woman who lives there is somewhat of an animal hoarder. And it’s developed into a rat problem. This has the affect or ringing the dinner bell, and something answers. Then the dying begins. No one is immune to it’s appetite.

Nothing pings my radar more than a creature horror story. The beast was everything I could have hoped for. And so was the mayhem. I ate this up, almost as voraciously as the beast ate it’s victims.

Great character building and wicked action scenes made this one of those straight through reads.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

Ben McKelvie believes he’s moving up in the world when he and his fiancee buy a house in the cushy Washington, D.C., suburb of Barcroft. Instead, he’s moving down-way down-thanks to Madeleine Roux, the crazy neighbor whose vermin-infested property is a permanent eyesore and looming hazard to public health. First, Ben’s fiancee leaves him; then, his dog dies, apparently killed by a predator drawn into Barcroft by Madeleine’s noxious menagerie. But the worst is yet to come for Ben, for he’s not dealing with any ordinary wild animal. This killer is something much, much worse. Something that couldn’t possibly exist-in this world. Now, as a devilish creature stalks the locals, Ben resolves to take action. With some grudging assistance from a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and the crackpot theories of a self-styled cryptozoologist, he discovers the sinister truth behind the attacks, but knowing the Beast of Barcroft and stopping it are two different animals.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Red Swarm

by Jamie Hutchison

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Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

The Royal Navy. A Marine Biologist. They work together to destroy the threat in the sea. Sounds perfect for me.

And it pretty much was. I love creatures of the deep. And taking a look at the cover, I knew I was going to get some. Sure did.

It had some interesting characters, lots of action scenes and some wicked monsters. All of it came together to make this horror fan happy.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

BENEATH THE WAVES LURKS NEW DEADLY PREDATORS On a cold November morning the crew of the Anti-Submarine Frigate HMS Sabre witnesses divers being attacked and viciously killed by ferocious fish.  From the coast of Britain to the shores of the United States the deadly creatures leave a trail of death in their wake. Marine Biologist Professor Mark Yates teams up with the Royal Navy to combat the threat not only to the British Isles but all the world oceans.The first of Mark Yates high seas adventures.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me! (more…)

Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Wolf Hunt

by Jeff Strand

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Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

Some comedy with my horror is always appreciated. And Lou and George provided plenty. It came as a surprise since they’re a couple of tough guys. The kind who work for people who stay under the law’s radar. Their assignment, deliver a werewolf to a man in Florida. No problem since they don’t believe in werewolves. The jokes on them.

What a blast. I had some laughs. Cringed at some of the carnage. Loved the wicked werewolf. And actually rooted for the bad guys, George and Lou. Hey, they made me laugh. And they dealt out some gratuitous bloodshed. I’d love to read more about those two. Maybe next time they’ll deal with a Sasquatch. One can always wish.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

Two thugs. One innocent woman. And one VICIOUS frickin’ werewolf. Meet George and Lou, thugs for hire. The kind of intimidating-yet-friendly guys who will break your thumbs, but be polite about it. Their latest assignment is to drive across Florida to deliver some precious cargo to a crime lord. The a man in a cage. Though Ivan seems perfectly human, they’re warned that he is, in fact, a bloodthirsty werewolf. George and Lou don’t believe in the supernatural, but even if they did, it’s daytime and tonight isn’t the full moon. Their instructions are Do not open the cage. Do not reach into the cage. Do not throw anything into the cage. And they don’t. Unfortunately, Ivan doesn’t play by the usual werewolf rules, and the thugs find themselves suddenly responsible for a ferocious escaped beast. One who can transform at will. One who enjoys killing in human form as much as he enjoys killing as a monster. If George and Lou want to save their careers, dozens of people, and their own lives, they need to recapture him. Because Ivan the werewolf is in the mood for a murder spree… From Jeff Strand, the four-time Bram Stoker Award nominated author of PRESSURE, comes 75,000 words of action-packed, blood-soaked werewolf terror!

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2024! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Tentacles And Teeth

The Szornyek #1

by Ariele Sieling

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Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

So, it’s after the apocalypse occurred. I get that. I just wish the world building would have been more detailed. I’m not even sure when this took place. That kind of stayed with me.

What was the apocalypse? Not sure what caused it but I liked where the author went. Not a plague or zombies or the other usual scenarios. It was monsters. Loved that.

How the story flowed. Pretty good. Especially scenes with the monsters. And the character dialogue.

Overall. I enjoyed this and seeing as it’s the first in a series, I’d give the next one a try.

One last thing. The cover. Is that killer or what!

3 STARS

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Synopsis

The apocalypse wasn’t what anyone expected–no rising flood waters, no zombies, no nuclear bombs. Instead, monsters. Their sudden invasion left the world in shatters, and now, decades later, all that’s left of human civilization are a few nomadic bands struggling to survive off the land. Askari was born to this world, and lives, fights, and survives alongside the community that raised her. But when she breaks one too many of the community’s rules, her punishment is leave. Armed with her bow and blade, Askari sets off alone, guided only by a map and the promise that if she can find a book hidden in a nearby town, then she can return. But what can one person do alone in such a harsh, violent landscape? How will she survive? Askari faces a challenge that will force her to learn not only about the world she lives in, but question what she believes about herself.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2024! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Teeth Of The Sea

by Tim Waggoner

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Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

Did you see that cover? Holy cow! I spotted it and had to check it out. Then I saw who the author was and made my purchase. I’ve read other books by Tim and had faith this would be another good one.

The scenario. A resort built on an island. Remote. Fancy. So much to do. And surrounded by water…. jump right in. Or not. There’s something ancient in the water. It’s hungry. But wait. You aren’t safe on land either. And there’s a storm coming with the potential to flood the streets. Uh Oh.

I jumped in. The book, not the water. I’m no fool. I have to say I appreciate it when the author gives me human chum to shake my head at. Someone has to feed the creatures and I thought some of their foolish choices were believable. People do the strangest things and don’t think anything bad will happen to them.

There were some cool characters too. Some with smarts and a drive to destroy the creatures. That’s where the suspense came in. Would they survive? I sure hoped so but, the author isn’t afraid to feed his characters to the beast.

It was  a blast. No dull moments.  Fortuitous mayhem. And some really cool creatures.

4  STARS

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Synopsis

They glide through dark waters, sleek and silent as death itself. Ancient predators with only two desires – to feed and reproduce. They’ve traveled to the resort island of Las Dagas to do both, and the guests make tempting meals. The humans are on land, though, out of reach. But the resort’s main feature is an intricate canal system . . .

. . . and it’s starting to rain.

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