Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

Started: 27.5.25

Finished: 28.5.25

Kindle

Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

Started: 24.5.25

Finished: 27.5.25

Kindle

The Hike by Lucy Clarke

Started: 16.5.25

Finished: 24.5.25

Kindle Unlimited

Starling by Kirsten Cram

Started: 10.5.25

Finished: 12.5.25

Kindle

The Ritual by Adam Nevill

Started: 10.5.25

Finished: 10.5.25

Kindle

I've seen reviews for this book suggesting that it's terrifying, but I just thought it was bizarre, and not in a good way. Part one started off ok when the four friends were lost in the forest. I like the survival/isolation genres and might have enjoyed it if it had carried on in that way, with a more believable threat, so it can have a couple of stars for that. But when more was revealed about who or what was hunting them, I became more and more disappointed.

Spoiler:

I just don't find goats scary!

And part two just seemed ridiculous!

Spoiler:

Where the heck did a teenage Odin-worshipping black metal band suddenly appear from?

Read it in one day in the hope that the ending was going to redeem it - it didn't.

Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Started: 5.5.25

Finished: 9.5.25

Paperback

The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Started: 2.5.25

Finished: 4.5.25

Paperback

5 stars - top ten

"... Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."