This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
September has started and while it still feels like summer for the most part, I have started to think about spooky books I might want to read later in the fall. I am not usually a seasonal mood reader, but there is something about the fall that makes me want to read those darker books that I might pass up other times of the year. So my pick this week is all about things that go bump in the night. Plus that cover is pretty darn scary too.
The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates
Published: May 4, 2021
Summary from Goodreads:
Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper’s cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.
And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering.
The cemetery is alive with faint, spectral shapes, led by a woman who died before her time… and Keira, the only person who can see her, has become her new target. Determined to help put the ghost to rest, Keira digs into the spirit’s past life with the help of unlikely new friends, and discovers a history of deception, ill-fated love, and murder.
But the past is not as simple as it seems, and Keira’s time is running out. Tangled in a dangerous web, she has to find a way to free the spirit… even if it means offering her own life in return.
It has a pretty high rating on Goodreads, so I am hoping that it will be a good one. It certainly sounds spooky, and that final sentence in the summary certainly makes me want to read it. I also really like that cover! The way the roots weave around the words and kind of look like veins, makes me shiver.
Do you have any spooky books you want to read this fall? Let me know which ones in the comments. Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 