Halloween is close, so it’s time to get into the spirit with some spooky reads!
1. The Call by Peadar O’Guilin
Ireland is closed off from the rest of the world as evil faeries target the human inhabitants of their sacred land. Every child, before reaching adulthood, will face “the Call”: they will disappear for three minutes. In those moments of limbo, the adolescent will be transported to the faerie realm, where the faeries will hunt them with the intent to kill. After those three minutes are up, the victim reappears back to the real world, either dead or victorious, but usually horribly traumatized and deformed. Students train their whole teenage lives to survive their Call, living in constant fear and blind determination. Tessa, the protagonist, has been crippled since childhood and everyone views her as good as gone when her Call comes. But Tessa has an intense drive to make it out alive.
2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The night circus is a traveling circus that appears under the cloak of night and disappears without warning. Morgenstern weaves the story of two talented magicians who both become entangled in the mysterious circus and a treacherous competition where the circus is the stage. With a colorful cast of characters, this novel combines an eerily dark, atmospheric setting and a twisting, turning plot that leaves you never knowing where it’s going.
3. Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
This is the story of two souls who are reincarnated through multiple different lives. These spirits always find each other in different bodies, places and time periods. Sedgwick crafts a mystical tale of different forms of love and destiny.
4. Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Victor is a villain. His old college roommate Eli is a modern day superhero. The two ambitious scientists used to be best friends, but a dangerous project that causes people to develop supernatural powers tears the two apart. In a Frankenstein-esque tale, Schwab reevaluates the idea of a villains and heroes in a gritty contemporary setting.
5. The Diviners by Libba Bray
It’s the Roaring Twenties and small-town Evie O’Neill heads off to glamorous New York City to escape scandal. Between parties at speakeasies, she discovers that she is a Diviner, with a supernatural gift to read items. Banding together with an eclectic group of friends who all have secrets of their own, Evie attempts to use her power for good and catch a ghastly killer loose in the streets of the city.
These books are guaranteed to get you into the Halloween spirit.
Spooky Reading!