Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge 2024 - October Update: Angel of the Overpass & The Whispering Pines

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well.  I've now completed 20 tasks for Book Riot's 2024 Read Harder Challenge.  The tasks I completed in October required me to read a genre book (SFF, horror, mystery, romance) by a disabled author and a middle grade horror novel.  I selected Angel of the Overpass (Ghost Roads #3) by Seanan McGuire and The Whispering Pines (Exit 13 #1) by James Preller respectively.  Read on to see my mini reviews and my plans for next month:

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Angel of the Overpass (Ghost Roads #3) by Seanan McGuire is a great series finale.  I love Seanan McGuire's brand of urban fantasy and this series from her is totally underrated.  If you're at all interested in ghost stories, I can't recommend it enough.  By the way, I listened to the audiobook edition of this story and Amy Landon does a great job of bring Rose and her world to life.

My review is also on Goodreads.

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The Whispering Pines (Exit 13 #1) by James Preller is a solid MG horror series opener.  I wish our lead siblings were a little more fleshed out, but it does do well in terms of creepy atmosphere.  I did appreciate the split between text and graphic novel panels, but I wished it was split more evenly that way.  There's not nearly as many graphic novel panels as I was hoping for in comparison to text.  The art really suits the tone as well.  I definitely want to check out book two, The Spaces in Between.

My review is also on Goodreads.

Next Up For November:

Read a sci-fi novella.

My choice: Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells - I've really enjoyed what I've read from Wells so far and it's time I start to get caught up.

Read a picture book published in the last five years.

My choice: Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds - I don't know about you, but this looks delightful.

Are you taking part in this challenge?  Have you read any of these books?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!