Top 10 Books October 2022
Review for Beasts and Beauty
“So she sticks close to her father, and whenever he gives gold to her sisters for new dresses and boots, he also slips her some, which Mei uses to buy new books, while the rest she buries under a floorboard so she can one day live free of men entirely in a house of her own with a library two stories high and a garden where she can read.”
Friday’s Page 69 ~ Beasts and Beauty by Soman Chainani

Beware the parent who craves a child in order to mend a broken heart.
They often come with the best of intentions, as this one does, with his once rose-red hair turned gray and his sagging flesh and hump in his spine, a man once a boy, whose parents kept him in a tower and smothered him with love, hoarding him away, until it was too late to find love for himself.
Cover Lover Saturday ~ Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani + Julia Iredale
Teaser Tuesday ~ Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

I flipped through the book and stopped at a random page, this turned out to be page 201.
It wasn’t until he started walking again that Scarlet released a captured breath. They’d been walking for hours without sign of another train, a cross-section of tracks, or civilization. On one hand, it was beautiful here – the fresh air, the wildflowers, the critters that came to the edge of the brush to watch Scarlet and Wolf before scurrying back into the ferns.
But on the other hand, her feet and back were sore, her stomach was growling, and now Wolf was telling her that the less loveable creatures of the forest were prowling nearby.
Review for Your House, My House
October Horror Mystery Month Fest Recommendation ~ Bloody Manga Edition ~ Day 20: Otogibanashi Battle Royale

Read if you like: fairy tales done differently, battle royale-esque setting, wishes, people just signing contracts willy-nilly, Alice in Wonderland, zombies, horror, books