Fall vibes: Cozy and mysterious books to read in october

 

Do you also enjoy sometimes matching your reads to the seasons? Because I love it.

It’s just funny where I live we don’t really have seasons, but oh well. I live vicariously through this kind of books. For fall-themed reads, I like my books a little mysterious, sometimes with a lot of angst, and also magic. This is a given for every time of the year, but specially so when I imagine what the bookish fall vibe means to me.

Now on with those books!

Atmospheric and mysterious

The Language of Thorns, by Leigh Bardugo

I just NEEDED to start the list with this one. These short stories are the epitome of magical fall.

Aside from being very good stories on their own, if you’ve read the Grishaverse books, you can actually feel the rightness related to their respective places of origin. Fjerda stories have a different feel from Ravka stories.

This is not only a must for any Grishaverse fan, but also for anyone who wants to curl up in bed and lose themselves in a magical world for a few hours.

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A Madness so Discreet, by Mindy McGinnis

Ufff! This book.

I remember getting it on a whim. I had never read anything by this author before but the cover OBVIOUSLY got my attention.

It might lead you to believe this is some kind of horror story. It’s not. At least not in the way you think. Some things might horrify you though. As far as I know, it does give a fairly realistic depiction of asylums in its time period, and it’s not pretty.

That said, it really draws you in and by the end, you’re going to be feeling so dang satisfied because the story comes into a full circle, and that’s always nice.

 

All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terril

I haven’t read a whole lot of time travel books, but I have to say that out of all of them, this one is my favorite.

It’s a standalone with plenty of tension and conflict that will keep you glued to its pages.

The book moves between two timelines, one that is a bit post-apocalyptic one, and the other is the past, sort of giving us a background of how things got like this. And in the middle of everything, the two people who are trying to fix things, all by using the same time machine that is the source of the problem.

And… now I really want to reread it.

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The Forgetting,  by Sharon Cameron

This was another bookstore find that I’m so, so, glad caught my attention on the shelf.

The Forgetting has a very intriguing premise. This is a world where on a set day everyone loses their memories. This is why they all have journals they have to keep up to date. The memories they put in there are all you have in order to tell you who you are when you forget everything.

Mindblown.

Of course things aren’t as simple as they seem. There are so many questions to answer, and you’ll enjoy every part of the characters’ journey to figure it out.

 

Cozy and romantic

Marriage for One, by Ella Maise

Where do I begin with this one?

It’s rare to find romance books like Marriage for One these days. It proves the real gold to be found in these stories isn’t really the happy ending, but the process, the interactions, the little details.

This story is slow burn but that doesn’t mean it makes us wait to have swoon-worthy moments. They’re all over and that happy ending just becomes sweeter because of the journey that gets us there.

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From Blood and Ash, by Jennifer Armentrout

Is this the most original, most amazing and heart-pounding book ever? Nope. Does it deliver an entertaining story, hilarious moments, an intriguing setting and plot? Absolutely.

And apparently that’s all I need to get sucked into From Blood and Ash. This is Jennifer’s Armentrout’s entry in the Epic Vampire Comeback Revolution™.

This is exactly the kind of book you’ll love to have with you during a cloudy day, and as a matter of fact, go right ahead and read the sequel as well!

Hopefully you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.

 

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And that’s pretty much it. I would recommend these books for any time of the year, but those fall vibes are strong with these ones.

Have you read any of these books? Are you thinking about giving any of them a shot?

 

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