2019 was an exciting year in reading for me: I started this blog as a way to communicate my thoughts and feelings on great reads, to promote horror, and to connect with more readers and authors. Overall, I would say the year was a successful one as far as those goals went – even though the last few months got away from me due to life issues. I didn’t set much of a posting timeline going in, but I was able to read and post regularly up to October. Moving into 2020, I’m going to try to post at least twice monthly – hopefully more! Look for a “What to Expect in 2020” post coming your way very soon!
Throughout 2019, I was able to read 74 books. Most were 4 and 5 star reads so narrowing it down to five was really difficult! Nevertheless, here they are – in no particular order. My top 5 reads of 2019:
Bunny by Mona Awad
13 Views of the Suicide Woods by Bracken MacLeod
Cry Your Way Home by Damien Angelica Walters
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
Westlake Soul by Rio Youers
Links to my reviews have been embedded in the titles if you would like to read them. 13 Views and Westlake Soul are currently out-of-print, but look for them in your local library on on the secondary market – they are absolutely worth tracking down.
What were your top reads of 2019?
Tattered Covers & Broken Spines 
I really enjoyed ‘Westlake Soul’ but I thought hardly anybody else had read it! It reminded me a little bit of a YA book I read years ago called ‘Stuck in Neutral’ but not quite as depressing.
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