October TBR

October TBR

Doctor Sleep – Stephan King
                On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs but as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve year old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
                Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his fathers legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnany shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Dust & Decay (Benny Imura #2) – Jonathan Maberry **Spoilers**
                Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It’s also been six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. Now after months of rigorous training with Benny’s zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. Lilah the lost girl and Benny’s best friend Lou Chang are going with them.
                But before they even leave there is a shocking Zombie attack in town, and as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland – Where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Worst of all… could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive?
                In the great Rot & Ruin, everything wants to kill you and not everyone in Benny’s small band of travelers will survive…

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – April Genevieve Tucholke
               Nothing exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town… until River West comes along. River rents the guest house behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard.
                Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with pretty eyes and a mysterious past? Or could he be something more? Violet’s grandmother always warned her about the Devil, but she never said he could be a dark-haired boy who takes naps in the sun, who likes coffee, who kisses you in a cemetery… who makes you want to kiss back.
               Violets already so knee-deep in love, she can’t see straight, and that’s just how River likes it.

 

Texas Gothic – Rosemary Clement-Moore
               Amy Goodnight knows that the world isn’t as simple as it seems – she grew up surrounded by household spells and benevolent ghosts but she also understands that “normal” doesn’t mix well with magic, and she’s worked hard to build a wall between the two worlds. Not only to protect any hope of ever having a normal life.
               Ranch-sitting for her aunt in Texas should be exactly that. Good old ordinary, uneventful hard work. Only, Amy and her sister, Phin aren’t alone. There’s someone in the house with them – and it’s not the living, breathing, amazingly hot cowboy from the ranch next door. It’s a ghost, and it’s more powerful than the Goodnights and all their protective spells combined. It wants something from Amy, and none of her carefully built defenses can hold it back.

 

What are you reading this month?