{"id":24200,"date":"2025-04-01T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=24200"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:23:58","slug":"monthly-blog-review-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/monthly-blog-review-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Blog Review: March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posts<\/h2>\n

Book Reviews<\/strong>\"\"
\n\u2665 100% Match<\/a> by Patrick C. Harrison III (5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Buttons<\/a> by Jennifer Osborn (3\u2605)
\n\u2665 Cargo<\/a> by Ruth Anna Evans (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 Deliverance<\/a> by Asia Brito Guerrero (5\u2605)
\n\u2665 How to Kill a Celebrity<\/a> by Duncan Ralston (3.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Our Dead Girlfriend: Author\u2019s Enhanced Edition<\/a> by Jon Athan (4.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Puzzle House<\/a> by Duncan Ralston (4.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Black Witch<\/a> by Laurie Forest (3.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Knight and the Butcherbird<\/a> by Alix E. Harrow (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Palmist<\/a> by Jack Bantry & Robert Essig (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 They Come For Us At Night<\/a> by Asia Brito Guerrero (4\u2605)<\/p>\n

Manga Reviews<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Hauntress<\/a> by Minetaro Mochizuki (3.5\u2605)<\/p>\n

Other Posts<\/strong>
\n\u2665 April 2025 New Release Horror Books<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Books Read<\/h2>\n

\"\"I had another crazy good reading month and knocked out a lot of stories! I even had a two week period where I couldn’t read as much because I was sleeping a lot thanks to pneumonia, and a con weekend that kept me busy! I hope to get back on the reading train once I recover physically.<\/p>\n

\u2665 Accidental Death by Ruth Anna Evans (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu (5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Buttons by Jennifer Osborn (3\u2605)
\n\u2665 Deliverance by Asia Brito Guerrero (5\u2605)
\n\u2665 My Apologies to Tanya Grace by Cat Voleur (3\u2605)
\n\u2665 Our Dead Girlfriend: Author’s Enhanced Edition by Jon Athan (4.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Question Not My Salt by Amanda M. Blake (4.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Palmist by Jack Bantry & Robert Essig (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 They Came For Us At Night by Asia Brito Guerrero (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 #thighgap by Chandler Morrison (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 Waste Ground by Marc Ruvolo (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 When the Cold Gets Hungry by Asia Brito Guerrero (4.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Woom by Duncan Ralston (5\u2605)<\/p>\n

\n

Life and Other Things<\/h2>\n

March has been one of the busiest months of the year for me, besides the holiday season at the end of the year. I was also in bed sick for two straight weeks with pneumonia at the start of the month. When I recovered I had a crazy time catching up on all the work I missed and planning for both my children’s birthdays. It has been a wonderful month with family and friends that I very much needed after my bout of illness.<\/p>\n

Then I capped off the month with this year’s Scares That Care AuthorCon V<\/a><\/strong>! By Sunday I was absolutely exhausted, my knees were swollen, and my legs felt like I had run a marathon. I definitely got my steps in and the workout was good. I seemed to catch a mild cold and extended my vacation one more day to let my body recover. Full recap post coming soon!<\/p>\n

\n

Books Hauled<\/h2>\n

\"\"eARCs (Author\/Publisher)<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Made A Monster by Rob Nelson
\n\u2665 The Twitching House by Ben Farthing
\n\u2665 The Vines by Matt Micheli<\/p>\n

eARCs (NetGalley)<\/strong>
\n\u2665 House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama
\n\u2665 Janitors vs. The Living Dead by Michelle Garza; Melissa Lason
\n\u2665 What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown<\/p>\n

Book Boxes<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Hiding Lies by Stephanie Rose (Twisted Retreat)
\n\u2665 Hush, My Darling by Leigh Kenny (Twisted Retreat)
\n\u2665 The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister (Twisted Retreat)
\n\u2665 Welcome to Meadowbrook by Cassandra L. Thompson (Twisted Retreat)<\/p>\n

Ebook Purchases<\/strong>\"\"
\n\u2665 Spicy Constellation & Other Recipes by Chad Lutzke
\n\u2665 The Ones Who Got Away: Stories by Stephen Graham Jones
\n\u2665 This Wretched Valley by Jenny Keifer
\n\u2665 Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay MacLeod Chapman<\/p>\n

Physical Purchases<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror by Ellen Datlow (editor)
\n\u2665 Faceless by Jeff Monday
\n\u2665 My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
\n\u2665 Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen
\n\u2665 Shy Girl by Mia Ballard
\n\u2665 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront\u00eb<\/p>\n

Amazon First<\/strong>
\n\u2665 The Beauty of the End by Lauren Stienstra
\n\u2665 The Sublet by Greer Hendrix<\/p>\n

Scares That Care AuthorCon V<\/strong>
\nI’m not even going to recap the books I hauled here because it is an obscene amount. Between books I purchased and books and chapbooks I got for free it’s in the triple digits. Yes you read that right.<\/p>\n

\n

Next Month<\/h2>\n

Nothing much, other than knocking out some reading, catching up on writing reviews, and preparing the April new releases post for April 1st! My husband and I are also celebrating our six year anniversary today (yes it’s April 1st), but I’ll be back on track soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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