Magical Readathon: Orilium - Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia 2026, The Boardgame - October Update

Happy Monday everyone! Today I'm sharing my thoughts on the book I read in October for Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia 2026, The Boardgame, an additional challenge to G. @ Book Roast's Magical Readathon.  You can see my full tbr here.  Without further ado, check out my mini review below:

October - 10B - Meet entry wardens (ah finally, the gates to the Capital of Darkmeadow, but you get stopped by the wardens.  This city has strict entry rules, you'll have to convince them to let you in.) - read a debut novel

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Friend Request by Laura Marshall has a pretty great premise, but it's a bit underwhelming in the end. One thing I appreciated the most was the dual timeline from 1989 to 2016. My least favorite thing about the story was easily our main character. She's a little too whiny about everything which made me lose interest in her fairly early on in the story.

My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph.

Next Month:

November - 11B - Pay with rare books (you have brought your collection of rare tomes you've found n your previous adventures, the one in your hand is from an Ancient Irtheria ruin.  You present it to the warden and they take it away.  You wait to see if this will suffice.  If successful it'll be added to the Great Underworld Library.) - read a book with fewer than 3,000 ratings on a rating app (like Goodreads, StoryGraph, etc.)

My choice: Scourge (Darkhurst #1) by Gail Z. Martin - This has been sitting on my shelf for too long which is a shame because this fantasy horror sounds pretty great.  It only has 262 ratings currently.

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