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#BookReview: Final Girls by Riley Sager (@riley_sager) @EburyPublishing

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#BookReview: Final Girls by Riley Sager @penguinbooks.bsky.social #FinalGirls #damppebbles
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“FIRST THERE WERE THREE The media calls them the Final Girls – Quincy, Sam, Lisa – the infamous group that no one wants to be part of. The sole survivors of three separate killing sprees, the…

October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Lisa Cowan Pineo

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Happy Halloween! Here are 48 scary, cute and/or spooky books published this year for all ages. ☠️🎃👻📚
#halloween #scary #spooky #horror #horroromance #romantasy #paranormal #picturebooks #kidlit #middlegrade #yabooks #adultfiction #halloweenbooks #bookpost #bookrecs #books #read #booksky💙📚 #oct31

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#booktropes #bookteaser #teasertuesday #paranormal #pnr #kinsleykincaid #beautifulnightmare #booklover #booklove #bookrecs #comingsoon #gothicbooks #vampires #witches #coven #paranormalthriller #suspense #forbiddenromance #occult

Alexis Lopez-McNelis

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October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM Everybody can reply

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Lisa Cowan Pineo

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In Octorber I read nine books, seven of them horror for spooky season. I'm still on track for the year!
#goodreadschallenge #readingchallenge #readinggoals #bookroundup #bookreviews #bookpost #bookrecs #horror #middlegrade #adultfiction #ya #graphicnovel #classics #lgbtqromance #booksky💙📚 #oct2025

October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM Everybody can reply

alittlewriter.bsky.social

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anyone got any novella recommendations? and not the classics. I'd love to read modern novellas. Scifi, fantasy, spec fic, horror especially, please give me #bookrecs and maybe my library will have them

October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM Everybody can reply

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❄︎ Gilded Locks ❄︎ November 4

“You’re in our house, little girl.”

In this story, Goldilocks doesn’t get to choose...she gets chosen.

🐻: geni.us/GildedLocks

#whychoose #whychooseromance #darkromance #fairtaleretellings #comingsoon #newrelease #villainsofkassel #goldilocks #billionaires #bookrecs

October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM Everybody can reply

MK📖✨

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Lies series book one: Lies We Extinguished by MK Morris📖 a holiday firefighter romance. Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! #mustread #romancebooks #bookrecs #holidayreads #christmasromancebooks #firefighterromance #heroromance #booktok

October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM Everybody can reply

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#BookReview: The Honeymoon by Tina Seskis (@tinaseskis) @PenguinUKBooks @MichaelJBooks

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#BookReview: The Honeymoon by Tina Seskis @penguinbooks.bsky.social @michaeljbooks.bsky.social #TheHoneymoon #damppebbles
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“There’s trouble in paradise . . . For as long as she can remember, Jemma has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnight’s retreat to a five-star resort in the Maldives, com…

October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM Everybody can reply

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J. Tomala (MM/Queer Romance Writer)

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31 queer halloween book recs.

#mmromance #ffromance #queerhorror #fantasbooks #yabooks #vampirebooks #bookrecs #videorec

October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM Everybody can reply

Kelsie Rae - Author

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📖 Don’t Let Me Fall by Kelsie Rae

#booktok #booksta #hockeyromance #romancebooks #bookrecs #books

October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM Everybody can reply

Smut and Sensibility

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Ahhhh we couldn't be more excited (insert club horn noise here)! If you haven't read Ellie Palmer yet, you should definitely check out her books! Drop a book emoji below if you have read Ellie's books before.

#booksky #romancelandia #romancebooks #bookrecs #funny #friday #booknerd #bookworm

October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM Everybody can reply

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#BookReview: Follow You by Richard Parker (@Bookwalter) @bookouture

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#BookReview: Follow You by Richard Parker @bookouture.bsky.social #FollowYou #damppebbles
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“Her eyelids were the only parts of her body she could move. The figure spoke, then retreated into the gloom. She couldn’t accept what they’d said. How could she have brought this on herself?…

October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM Everybody can reply

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#BookReview | #Giveaway: All The Wicked Girls by @WhittyAuthor @BonnierZaffre @1stMondayCrime

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#BookReview: All The Wicked Girls by Chris Whitaker @zaffrebooks.bsky.social #AllTheWickedGirls #damppebbles
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“Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she’s a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama – especially compared to her troubled sister,…

October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Quinn Reed 📚🏈🏒🎶➕️

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🥧 REVIEW 🥧

LUSCIOUS: Masters and Mercenaries: Topped bk 1 by #LexiBlake, narrated by #LanceGreenfield 5🌟

Fantabulous start to the spinoff! 💙

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🌶📚💙 #books #romancelandia #bookreview #bookrecs #goodread #audiobook #steamyreads #dramedy #workplaceromance #ValentinePR

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Title: Luscious, Masters & Mercenaries: Topped

Author: Lexi Blake

*****Book review*****

>Can't Lose the Pie Maker<

I don't want to compare this to the original series, but I came into this expecting a lot of the same. In some ways, it is as the number of characters that crossover is extensive, but it doesn't have the espionage and suspense elements. This is also much shorter. Those are NOT digs either way because I absolutely love this book. They are simply facts. 😘

Macon Miles and Sarah Allyson (Ally) Jones are perfectly imperfect. They have secrets that eventually catch up with them, but the journey? Oh, that journey! The discovery, exploration, acceptance, and light are just fantabulous.

-- Book quote
'When the front was slow, she came back to the kitchen and tried to help them. Shouldn’t someone watch out for her?'
-- Macon Miles

There are some really dark moments from the past, as well as unwanted attention that goes too far, but the abundance of comedic moments make it easy for me to not think too much about them. Ian Taggart is the source of most of the laughs. 😂🤣😂

Macon's insecurities with his prosthetic (C-Leg) are understandable. I like that we see him struggle with how it happened and the overall impact on his relationships and quality of life until he finds that one thing that begins pulling him out of it. It's not always pretty, but it is very realistic.

I received an author's copy of the audio book. The narrator, Lance Greenfield, does a really good job and keeps me wanting to listen to more. A female assist would've been nice, but this is enjoyable as-is. 🎧🩶🎧

Story: 5 stars
Narration: 4 stars
Listening Speed: 1.8x

H = 30s?; h = 25

October 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM Everybody can reply

librarybookhog.bsky.social

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This week’s library haul!

Top ➡️ bottom
“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” -Shirley Jackson
“The Anomaly” -Hervé Le Tellier
“Beautyland” -Marie-Helene Bertino
“The Half Has Never Been Told” -Edward E. Baptist

#library #librarybooks #books #booksky #bookrecs

Stack of four books on a wooden desk against a white wall in the background.

From top to bottom
“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” -Shirley Jackson
“The Anomaly” -Hervé Le Tellier
“Beautyland” -Marie-Helene Bertino
“The Half Has Never Been Told” -Edward E. Baptist

October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM Everybody can reply

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#BookReview: The Wrong Child by #BarryGornell @orionbooks @orion_crime @BenWillisUK

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#BookReview: The Wrong Child by Barry Gornell @orionbooks.bsky.social @orion_crime #TheWrongChild #damppebbles
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“Twenty-one of the 22 children in a rural village die in a disaster. By chance, the ‘wrong’ child, Dog Evans, lives. Crippled with survivor’s guilt, his parents abandon Evan…

October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM Everybody can reply

Betty Redd🌈💖

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what are your fave why choose romances/books with why choose elements/love quadrangle elements? are there ff why choose books. i know there are mm ones, but are there any really good ones? #booksky 📚💙 #queerbooks #bookrecs wanted

October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Suzy Henderson

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Heroes of War Book 1

#WW2: A B-17 pilot on the edge. A woman fighting to rebuild shattered lives. John Mackenzie faces death with every mission—until he meets Stella. Can love heal the wounds of war?

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#histfic #HistoricalRomance #bookrecs

October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM Everybody can reply

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#BlogTour | #BookReview: The Pact by S.E. Lynes (@SELynesAuthor) @bookouture #ThePact

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#BookReview: The Pact by S.E. Lynes @bookouture.bsky.social #ThePact #damppebbles
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“You made a promise to your sister. It could destroy your daughter. The Daughter 15-year-old Rosie lies in hospital fighting for her life. She’s trying to tell her mother what happened to he…

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University of Nevada Press

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Happy Nevada Day! Check out some awesome Nevada titles to enjoy!

#UniversityOfNevadaPress #NevadaDay #BookRecs #Nevada

Infographic titled Nevada Day Book Recommendations. It includes the covers of six books: 𝘼 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙤, 𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 by Richard Moreno, 𝘼 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 by Richard Moreno, 𝘼 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙑𝙞𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 by Ronald M. James and Susan A. James, 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 by Joxe K. Mallea-Olaetxe, 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙅𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 by David A. Hardy, and 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙒𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝙄 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙉𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙖 by Charles Weller.

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Craig Tyson Adams

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Unravel The Lying Spiral - Inspector Clouseau's Review. Get The Lying Spiral now at Amazon and sites where all fine books and audio books are sold. #MustRead #mystery #action #detective #crime #shelfie #book #ThrillerBooks #MysteryNovel #bookrecs #MysteryThriller #indiebooks #IndieAuthor #thriller

October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM Everybody can reply

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veryqueerbooks.bsky.social

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Three books about sex workers. That's it.

#mmromance #gayromance #bookrecs #videorec

October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM Everybody can reply

Bramble ~ Sci-fi and Fantasy Author

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It's wild my short stories about a post-apocalyptic Wales feel idyllic and cosy. If you want a break from the dystopia, my youtube channel has them all for free!

youtu.be/016Z3jT9wSY?...

If you enjoy free stuff and supporting indie authors check it out!
#Raven+Bear #bookrecs #readersky #audiobooks

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YouTube video by Bramble

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