Everything I Read In July 2022

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I feel like July was a pretty solid reading month, nothing crazy but nothing bad either. I read nine books, finished a series I started in June, read some solid thrillers, and some not so solid horror novellas.

Well, not so solid horror at all. Horror is one of those things I want to like and keep reading but I’m apparently very picky about. All three that I read this month were not good or were DNF’d. I’m very open to good horror suggestions if you have any!

I’m in the mood for some really creepy and spooky reads that aren’t like, super gorey but also aren’t necessarily paranormal either (I’ll still take recs on both of those) but like, psychological horror?

Basically, I wish I wasn’t always so disappointed by horror books. On that note, here is everything I read in July 2022!

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Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Final thoughts: From GoodReads: This is about five people that have dated each other in some way in the past, together at a haunted mansion full of dead people for two of them to get married. And they all don’t like each other so why are they celebrating a wedding together? I don’t understand this at all. Also, how are they 500 MILES from a hospital!? This wasn’t very good

The Box in the Woods

Final thoughts: I liked this one a lot. It’s just a fun YA mystery, I like the characters, I love the setting. I enjoyed that it was a new storyline and wasn’t at Ellingham. I like Ellingham but I feel like I wouldn’t have enjoyed a fourth book there as much.

Hex

Final thoughts: From GoodReads: DNF at 31%. I just don’t care about this at all. I’ll finish really bad books that I’m curious about how it ends but I don’t even care about the ending of this. At all. It’s not scary, I don’t care for the characters, pass

The Hand on the Wall

Final thoughts: I enjoyed this. It was fun and atmospheric and I felt like it was a good end to the main trilogy.

Night of the Mannequins

Final thoughts: From GoodReads: This was weird but not in a good way and it wasn’t creepy at all

Something in the Water

Final thoughts: I liked this one a lot. From the first chapter, I was hooked and had to know how she got there. I will say the main character did a lot of things that don’t really make sense but I still liked this one a lot.

The Vanishing Stair

Final thoughts: Just like the rest of the series, I loved the characters, the atmosphere, and the story. It’s not the most intense mystery or thrilling, but it’s fun and an easy read. It’s a great book to read in the fall!

Never Saw Me Coming

Final thoughts: I can’t speak to the psychopathy accuracy in this but I enjoyed this one. All of the characters were pretty terrible people but I was still attached to them.

Whisper Network

Final thoughts: This one was a little boring at times but overall I liked it. I would definitely say it’s more contemporary mystery than thriller but I was still curious about what happened the whole time.

Have you read any of these? Which ones? What did you read in July?