GoodReads Monday

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.

Hello and welcome to my Goodreads Monday post. For this week’s post I am once again choosing a spooky book, as we are coming into that time of year. This week’s pick is a new novella by an author that I happen to like. I just loved the cover and title, so knew I needed to share it with you all.

Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

Publication Date: September 10, 2024

Summary from Goodreads:

Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn’t want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family’s big Easter reunion at their lake retreat, she’s certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route.

When they arrive at the enormous mansion on an island in the center of a Georgia lake, Dez is floored―she’s never witnessed how the 1% lives before in all their ridiculous, unnecessary luxury. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, shit gets real. For decades, the Ruskins have made their servants sign contracts that are basically indentured servitude, and with nothing to lose, the servants have decided their only route to freedom is to get rid of the Ruskins for good…

Dez and Patrick are on the run, but the more Ruskins she sees die and the more servants who tell their stories, the more Dez realizes that she wants nothing to do with Marie and her magazine.

In fact, by the end, Dez might be the one strangling Marie to death with her trademark chunky pearls…

First let’s talk about that cover! I just love the blood splatter against the pink background and the pearls strangling a rose. How horrifyingly beautiful it is. And that title makes me wonder: exactly how are the servants planning on getting rid of the Ruskins? I’m just hoping it won’t be too gory or explicit in the the gore. I have read a few books by this author, which I have liked, but none of them have been horror. Fingers crossed it won’t be too bad.

Until next time…