Tag: Wicked Good Reads
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‘Other-World’ & Alternate Reality Books That Will Haunt Your Dreams
Books that involve a visit to (or from) a different dimension, the after-life, or an alternate reality add a whole other level of complexity to a story. When done well, they are completely wild and amazing! Here are a few of our recent favorite reads that involve another plane of existence… KIM The Book of…
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4 [More] Weird Ways the World Ends in Books That are #WickedGoodReads
Apparently we have a thing for reading books with weird apocalyptic events because we’ve read about the World ending by killer plants, slow rotation of the Earth, common drugs and hurricanes in 4 Books With Crazy Weird Apocalyptic Events and ending by animals, hair loss, an unknown entity and an unknown illness in 4 More…
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3 Award Winning Horror Books We Love #WickedGoodReads Bingo
One of my favorite prompts on the #WickedGoodReads Bingo Card is “Award Winner.” these books are voted on as the best of the year, and I like to read a few of them and see if that’s my experience as well. Some of the major literary awards with a “horror” specific category are The Bram…
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October is #WickedGoodReads Month [The 2022 Edition]
Heads up! It’s #WickedGoodReads Month in just a few short weeks. Every October, we talk about books with Wicked People & Creatures, Dangerous Places & Things. We shared our #WickedGoodReads Bingo Card earlier this year, so we’ll update you on our progress – if either of us made “Bingo”. Our theme as mentioned before –…
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#WickedGoodReads Bingo Card
We do a #WickedGoodReads event here on GXO every October where we dish on books with wicked people and creatures, dangerous places and things. This year, we’re throwing a bookish BINGO into the mix – where we (and you if you wish) will attempt to get at least one of the VERTICAL blocks on the…
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3 Horror Novels Involving Evil Mind Control #WickedGoodReads
Kim here with more spooktastic books for you to check out this October! This time we’re looking into the truly frightening plot tactic of mind control. Can you imagine having thoughts that weren’t yours and being unable to control what you did because of them? IMO this tops the list of really creepy! Here are…
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When You Can’t Tell Who the Bad Guy Is #WickedGoodReads
Hi all. Kim here with some more thriller recs perfect for fall reading! I love a book where the main character is surrounded by a bunch of people deemed ‘safe’ but then we find out that at least one of them can’t be trusted and may even be a killer. An author is especially successful…
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10 Graphic Novels Perfect for your Fall & Halloween Reading Lists
Hi friends! Kim here. Isn’t this the best time of year for reading? I think so! I love to include graphic novels in my Fall and Halloween reading lists. There are so many that are perfect reads for this time of year. Here are a few of my favorites: Pumpkin Heads, Rainbow Rowell This book…
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Favorite #WickedGoodReads Book Covers
It seems like we’re thinking about #WickedGoodReads Month all year long, and looking forward to telling you about all the books with wicked people and creatures, dangerous places and things. But it’s not only the books that wow us – some of the covers have floored us – and might have been the reason we…
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Everything Is Not Always As It Seems
When is the last time that you read a book where you just couldn’t tell where it was going? One that pleasantly surprised you? Here are 4 books that went in a different direction that it seemed at first and we were too thrilled with where they ended up! – TANYA PATRICE – Mexican Gothic,…