\n\u2665 Beast of Burden<\/a> by Judith Sonnet (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 Daughter\u2019s Drawings<\/a> by Nick Botic (2\u2605)
\n\u2665 I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls<\/a> by Ben Farthing (5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Smash It!<\/a> by Francina Simone (2.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Maid of Milan<\/a> by Beverley Eikli (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbur<\/a> by Jay Bonansinga & Robert Kirkman (3.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 We Hunt at Night<\/a> by Duncan Ralston (5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Abomination in Wax<\/a> by Judith Sonnet (5\u2605)<\/p>\n
Game Reviews<\/strong> Other Posts<\/strong> I’ve been in the reading slump and none of the books I picked up has held my attention.<\/p>\n Books<\/strong> I’ve had the worst month that I think I’ve had in a long, long time. I had some personal issues happen mid May that plunged me into a deep depression. This has made a lot of things hard and I ended up needing to take June off to recover mentally. I’m still not doing great but better than I was before. <\/p>\n Book Boxes<\/strong> Ebook Purchases<\/strong> Gifts<\/strong> Amazon First<\/strong> I don’t have many plans next month other than trying to break my reading slump and getting back on track with reading and blogging.<\/p>\n I’ve also been feeling in a JRPG mood and am considering picking up an older final fantasy game. Not sure which! But hopefully I can get to one this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blog Updates Those that follow my blog may have noticed slow updates. I was going through a lot personally in the month of June and had a major reading slump.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3217],"tags":[],"book-author":[],"book-illustrator":[],"book-series":[],"book-publisher":[],"book-genre":[],"book-source":[],"book-format":[],"class_list":["post-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monthly-blog-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogreview_jun2025-header.png?fit=1080%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26450,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions\/26450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"book-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-author?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"book-illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-illustrator?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-series?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"book-publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-publisher?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"book-genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-genre?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"book-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-source?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"book-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-format?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2665 Hatoful Boyfriend<\/a> (4.5\u2605)<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 Recommended Reads: My Favorite Poetry Collections<\/a>
\n\u2665 July 2025 New Release Horror Books<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBooks Read<\/h2>\n
\n\u2665 Close the Door by Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 We Hunt at Night by Duncan Ralston (5\u2605)<\/p>\n
\nLife and Other Things<\/h2>\n
\nBooks Hauled<\/h2>\n
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eARCs (NetGalley)<\/strong>
\n\u2665 A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters by Eric J. Guignard
\n\u2665 Beasts of Carnaval by Ros\u00e1lia Rodrigo
\n\u2665 Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester
\n\u2665 The Mirror Man by Wil Forbis<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 At Dark I Become Loathesome by Eric LaRocca (Twisted Retreat)
\n\u2665 Sanctuary by Valentina Cano Repetto (Twisted Retreat)<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 In the Eyes In the Shadows by Gage Greenwood
\n\u2665 It Came from Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones
\n\u2665 Red Inside by Bridgett Nelson
\n\u2665 Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories by Yvette Tan
\n\u2665 The Frolicking by Grant Wamack<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
\n\u2665 Overgrowth by Mira Grant
\n\u2665 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
\n\u2665 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 Abscond by Abraham Verghese
\n\u2665 Woman on the Verge by Kim Hooper<\/p>\n
\nNext Month<\/h2>\n