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Book Reviews<\/strong>\n\u2665 Faceless<\/a> by Jeff Monday (4.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 The Delicate Sound of Rage<\/a> by Desiree Horton & Chisto Healy (5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Real Love<\/a> by B.C. Hollywood (3\u2605)
\n\u2665 Such Lovely Skin<\/a> by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne (3\u2605)
\n\u2665 Summer of the Monsters<\/a> by David Sodergren (5\u2605)<\/p>\n
Comic Reviews<\/strong> Game Reviews<\/strong> Manga Reviews<\/strong> Other Posts<\/strong> Books<\/strong> Comics<\/strong> Besides playing more Tiny Bookshop<\/strong> obsessively, I also tried out a demo for an upcoming game called Hell Maidens<\/strong>, a vampire survivor type that I am really excited for!<\/p>\n Honestly it’s been a rough month! For some reason I’ve been sleeping through alarms no matter how early or how late I go to sleep. Maybe it’s the cooling weather and general business at work, but it’s been a bit chaotic and I’ve been really sleepy lately.<\/p>\n eARCs (Author\/Publisher)<\/strong> Book Boxes<\/strong> Ebook Purchases<\/strong> Physical Purchases<\/strong> Amazon First<\/strong> Try to break out of my reading slump, read some manga maybe, and play some new video games. \u2661<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blog Updates Posts Book Reviews \u2665 Faceless by Jeff Monday (4.5\u2605) \u2665 The Delicate Sound of Rage by Desiree Horton & Chisto Healy (5\u2605) \u2665 Real Love by B.C. Hollywood…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27389,"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-27388","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_oct2025-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\/27388","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=27388"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29237,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions\/29237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"book-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-author?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"book-illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-illustrator?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-series?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"book-publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-publisher?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"book-genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-genre?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"book-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-source?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"book-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-format?post=27388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2665 The Red Mother: Complete Collection<\/a> by Danny Luckert & Jeremy Haun (3.5\u2605)<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk<\/a> (3\u2605)<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 L\u2665DK Vol. 1<\/a> by Ayu Watanabe (2.5\u2605)
\n\u2665 Tokyo Boys & Girls Vol. 1<\/a> by Miki Aihara (3.5\u2605)<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 10 Great Horror Editors & Formatters<\/a>
\n\u2665 10 Great Horror Cover Artists \u2013 Part 2<\/a>
\n\u2665 November 2025 New Release Horror Books<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBooks Read<\/h2>\n
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It was a light reading month for me thanks to a massive reading slump. I started a bunch of books, but haven’t had the focus to finish anything. Switching up genres for a bit helped at least!<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (4\u2605)
\n\u2665 Real Love by B.C. Hollywood (3\u2605)<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 The Red Mother: Complete Collection by Danny Luckert & Jeremy Haun (3.5\u2605)<\/p>\n
\nGames Played<\/h2>\n
\nLife and Other Things<\/h2>\n
\nBooks Hauled<\/h2>\n
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There was a Halloween sale on Jon Athan ebooks and I couldn’t help but stock up! I’ve read three of his books and enjoyed all of them overall, so I’m excited to dive into more of his catalog.<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 The Companions We Lose by Micah Castle<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 Trading Bullets with the Devil by Kirsten Cross & Mark Steensland (Twisted Retreat)
\n\u2665 Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker (Evernight)
\n\u2665 You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White (Evernight)<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 Am I Beautiful? by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 Bad Appetites by Jon Athan![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_partygames.png?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1\")
\n\u2665 Butcher Road by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 Into the Wolves’ Den by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 Lovelorn by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 Lovesick by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 Maneater by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 Party Games by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 The Abuse of Ashley Collins by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 The Groomer by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 The Harbinger of Vengeance by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 The Law of Retaliation by Jon Athan
\n\u2665 The President’s Son by Jon Athan<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_musictosacrificevirginsto.png?resize=197%2C300&ssl=1\")
\n\u2665 Ballad of the Werevixens by Kristopher Triana
\n\u2665 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
\n\u2665 Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib
\n\u2665 Music to Sacrifice Virgins to by Kristopher Triana
\n\u2665 The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
\n\u2665 The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
\n\u2665 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
\n\u2665 The Thirteenth Koyote by Kristopher Triana<\/p>\n
\n\u2665 The Fix by Mia Sheridan
\n\u2665 The Night Guests by Marina Scott<\/p>\n
\nNext Month<\/h2>\n