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Looking for a good book to read for #Halloween? Then look no further than Iseult Murphy’s 7 Weeks in Hell from her Seventh Hell Series. It’s the first book in the series and is probably one of the most captivating takes that I’ve read on this staple Halloween monster - the zombie. Read my full review below to see why.

http://laureneason.com/2021/10/11/7-weeks-in-hell/

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I had the pleasure of reading the first book in a cozy paranormal mystery series by Jacques Von Kat titled On the Other Side of Alive. Here’s my review of their work.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

“I thought the story was interesting and had a very unique world. However, I felt like the author could’ve delved a little deeper into the world of the spirits and given us more insight into their lives, or rather, non-lives…”

Read the full review here ➡️
http://laureneason.com/2021/10/04/on-the-other-side-of-alive/

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Check out this unique vampire story with a twist! The Vampire Within by Laura Daleo - full review on #LaurensIndieBookClub!

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Brandon is a 16-year-old kid who finds himself attracted to the scent of blood and attacks a student one day after school. Trying to find the cause of this mysterious illness, his family takes him to the local doctor and decides to homeschool him since his friends now identify him as a monster. With the help of his new tutor, Rick, and his little sister, Lindsey, they embark on a journey to discover why he has these new vampiric tendencies and how they can get rid of them.

Full review here –> http://laureneason.com/2021/09/12/the-vampire-within/

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My new blog post at laureneason.com includes a cover reveal so I’d thought I’d share it with all of you!

Blog Summary:

Not everyone gets it right on the first try. Sometimes, we go back and reread our works from years ago with fresh eyes and find mistakes that we missed during rounds of editing.

Full article here –> http://laureneason.com/2021/09/07/rewrites-and-edits/

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Keeping in the theme of Spooky Season, we have Jaime Munn’s book, Between Tricks: A Dixie Tricks Novel. This story has a lot more than just vampires and has an interesting premise.

“The book was generally fast-paced with a lot of quips and snarky banter between characters. It’s written from Dixie Trick’s point of view as if it’s a journal - sometimes she’s talking to the audience, and other times she’s simply telling her story. She’s down to jump your bones at night and turn you into bones during the day, if you’re a monster of course!”

Read the full review on my blog! http://laureneason.com/2021/10/18/between-tricks/

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I finished reading The Warded Man and now I’m waiting for books 2 and 3 to arrive. The review is going to come online in a few days!

I am reading this series in tandem with my brother but it’s been kind of a false start: I couldn’t wait and when I finished this book he had barely had time to get through a handful of pages. Oops. Promise to be better.


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New in! I got this one in together with #CityOfLies, but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to start. I got started in The Warded Man and I want to finish that first before hopping on to another story

QOTD: how do you buy books? Do you wait for the mood to read something new or do you pre-select and pre-order each month?

AOTD: I do a little bit of both, I have a list of books I want that are going to come out in the next month and pre-order what I definitely want. But I also search around for the right book to strike me, and order that offhand.


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The review for Furyborn is coming online tomorrow!

How about that heat? I can’t recall a time it’s been this hot outside for this long. It’s nice not to have a July in which it rains every three days, or have the temperature suddenly drop to 15 degrees Celsius twice a week, but I do not envy myself for having to go to work tomorrow…

I’m going to try posting photo’s by three, to see if I can keep it up more regularly


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What is one book you know you’ll love, but can’t find the time to read it?
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Jamie and Claire
Happy Wednesday bookstagram! I am going to get so much done today I hope. I only work for like 4 hours and the rest of my day I am free to read, take photos, enter rep searches that I want to enter, etc…
I still haven’t read outlander but I watched the first season of the tv show I know I’m awful! I’ve actually been to one of the castles they filmed in when I went to Scotland in 2015.
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#julyofdisney
Brave- courageous character
#stuffandhogwartsjuly
Time turner- time/era you’d belong in

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Shadowhunter of Fae? Fae
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I need to finish City of Ashes, I’m just over halfway! It’s so good, but I keep stopping! Ahhhhhhhh!
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One day I’ll finish all of Cassandra Clare’s books and I’ll finally be happy
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Do you want to build a snowman - sibling’s love
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The merpeople- favourite mythical/ fantasy creature
Featuring bookmarks by @littleinklingsdesign and @tillanddill ✨❤️⚡️
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#ampersandmay17 day-19 ‘note’
I’m really enjoying the prompts for this #mayphotochallenge they are pushing me to create better content!
#rfabmay17 day-19 'recent purchase’ I’ve been trying to find The Raven Boys for a while in used book stores and so far was only able to find book 2 and 3 so I broke down yesterday and bought this copy from chapters! I can’t wait to start this series I have heard only the best things about it!



Qotd: What company do you recommend for bookmarks?



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“Las malas”, de Camila Sosa Villada

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An Excess Male

by Maggie Shen King

Imagine a world where you could only have one child. Where adult men significantly outnumber adult women to the point that a quarter of men are forced into bachelorhood. Where there are penalties for multiple children, homosexuality, large dogs, and defying the government.

Perhaps the scariest part of it all is: you don’t have to imagine at all.

Fact: China’s one-child policy was introduced in 1979 and was only altered in 2016. While some argue the family planning initiative had its desired effect of decreasing population growth, others argue that the population growth would have slowed naturally anyway. The “excess” consequences of the policy however, resulted in the abortion and abandonment of less-desirable girls and an aging population of “excess” men. Not to mention the surplus of second and third children who were not recognized by the state as citizens. Parents discovered to have more than one child were often dismissed from work and heavily fined. Many unregistered children still exist who are unable to obtain an education or even ID. (For more information, check out this news story from Time:http://time.com/4598999/china-one-child-policy-family-planning/)

That is the nonfiction part.

Enter Maggie Shen King’s addictive novel An Excess Male where we meet 40-something bachelor Wei-guo who has just become eligible for matchmaking services. With such a disproportionate number of males, the policy of Family Advancement has been introduced, and each woman may marry three men, and mother three children, one from each. Wei-guo, escorted by his two fathers (the product of such an “advanced” household) meets May-ling, her two peculiar husbands - who are incidentally brothers - and their irascible son, Bei-Bei.  So ensues a very unique courtship under the watchful eye of an ever-imposing government.

Told from four alternating and enjoyably distinctive perspectives, it’s part sci-fi, part love story, part bromance, part thriller. Don’t be fooled by its seeming domestic trappings. There is a Middle Kingdom real life battle club for bachelors, an anti-social brilliant hacker, and a highly secretive underground gay circuit. In fact, two-thirds of the way through, King’s twists so jolted me I reread the page and stayed up until the wee hours to learn Wei-guo’s fate.

That is the fiction part.

The problem is: they aren’t so far apart.

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

Should you eat chocolate cake? Maybe not. Is it extremely satisfying when you do? Of course. The Couple Next Door provides your sugar fix. Is it going to provide you nutrition? Probably not. But it is so satisfying you may just want another helping.  

I got this book as part of my Book of the Month trial last night. I finished it this afternoon. Need I say more? 

Quintessential suspense at its best, with all the twists and turns of a classic who-dun-it, The Couple Next Door profiles Anne and Marco, newbie parents who leave their infant sleeping at home while they attend a dinner party next door. Can you guess where this is going? I tried at several turns, but there was always another curve in the road. 

I did the classic “I’ll just finish this chapter” move, but then my eyes would start scanning the next page.  300 pages later…Lapena kept this taut novel pinging until the final sentence. Will there be a sequel? If so, I’ll definitely be reading it.   If not, she wrote a killer ending. 

ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY by Charlie Jane Anders

I bought All the Bird in the Sky for a friend. Her bookclub vetoed this as a book suggestion, but she was excited about it, so in an act of solidarity with her deeply-rooted belief that books should be worthy of discussion, I deposited it on her bed one day and blamed book fairies for the drop. 

Then I promptly started reading it myself and stole it across the country with me before she could open it. (I had the best intentions. Also, spending money on a book purchased for a friend does not count as buying a book for yourself.)

A unique combination of the post-apocalyptic world of Vanessa Vaselka’s ZAZEN and the gritty magical reality of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, Anders’ novel is possibly the only book that would be accurately categorized as Sci-Fi/ Fantasy. 

(There is this odd phenomenon - a bizarre combination of sci-fi and fantasy genres - that proliferates search engines and bookstores alike. It’d be like grouping cats and dogs together in a shelter section called Dats and considering the choice between the two arbitrary - which any cat or dog parent will indubitably dispute. But, this book is truly both Sci-Fi and Fantasy.) 

In the rich world Anders has invented, thick with angst and dense with meaning, a 2-second time travel device and talking animals coexist. It’s nostalgic and dread-filled, a children’s book for adults, an embedded warning for our collective future.  

Turning each page sounds the death nell for the end of the world - or a solemn harbinger for science that contains real magic - or is it magic that contains real science?  - that will save us all.