 Hey fellow reading warriors and welcome to a spooky book recommendation video So in this video, I'm going to recommend some spooky books for you to read this Halloween season as Halloween is getting Closer and closer as the day of I'm filming this it is one week to Halloween And I'm just trying to nail down all the books that I want to read But I do have some books that I really want to talk about That are very in tune to spooky season I think you guys should definitely read if you have the time and space on your TBRs So let's get started quick side note Not most of these books are not actually going to be thriller or horror just because that's not really a genre that I Enjoy too much. I am hoping to still read some of the spooky season But they're not books that I have read in the past. So I don't have many recommendations if I haven't read them So hopefully next year I'll have some recommendations in terms of spooky and thriller as hopefully I'll be reading those this year So the first book I would like to talk to you guys about is one I read last year And that is House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A Craig and I absolutely love this book It is a 12 dancing princesses retelling but with a huge horror twist So it's about this family with 12 girls who live kind of like on an island And so it kind of has like that not a cool like Stormy weather kind of vibe in the background So it's like dark and gloomy in the background of these sisters keep dying under mysterious circumstances But everyone just always kind of brushes it under the rug until one sister is like no I'm gonna figure out what's going on why my sisters are dying because I don't want to be next And so she kind of goes on this mystery to solve of why all of her siblings are dying And there's a huge like super spooky twist at the end like I got halfway through the book And then I just never put it down and I stayed up super late reading it Which was great, but also horrible because it was such a spooky ending that was like oh my word Can I even sleep now? But it was also amazing because it's not like it was gonna stop like I needed to finish this book No matter how tired I was and like I wasn't tired at all I was like oh I need to read this book So I highly recommend this one if you are into retellings Nautical fiend or just need something with a spooky twist as well as a bunch of murders Highly recommend this one next I'm gonna recommend stalking Jack the Ripper by Carrie Menescalco This is the first in I believe there are four books kind of in the series and I actually just ordered the second one Hunting Prince Dracula and I actually think it is sitting in a package on my table right there in front of me I think it's in that package Because I absolutely loved this book again I read it last year and it takes place like an ancient London during Jack the Ripper times It's about this woman who wants to like look at dead bodies and do the job that I am blanking on It's like a mortician Like you know something more along those lines like the people who examined dead bodies figure out cause of death like very Science-heavy, but because she's a woman in old England people are like No, except for her uncle who was like hey, yeah, I do that you can help me You can join me and so she ends up working on the Jack the Ripper case and trying to figure out what exactly is Happening to all these women from the murder subject the Ripper I I kind of felt like I had deja vu when I read this but that was impossible considering. I had never read it before but like It was it was good I like to the character the cool thing about this book is that there were like little pieces of mixed media in here like like it's not a mixed media book, but like it would have letters or it had Pictures are like it'll have like some of these dark gruesome pictures in it So if it's something so if gore and gruesomeness is not necessarily something you want to read is not something you want to see And that's why you read maybe just be aware that some of those are in here But yeah, I I Really enjoyed this book. I would just say you have some issues with dark books be beware But I didn't find it to be super dark. It was really nice Again, I kind of just sat down and like read through it all within the span of like 24 hours Because I had class and so it was like it was a pretty easy read to get through and I enjoyed it Oh, the next one that I have on the list here is pure mystery. I believe it's set in fall, but it's not necessarily It's just kind of a mystery that I read this past summer it's called the killing woods by Lucy Christopher and this is about a girl who Whose father actually comes into the house after one stormy night with a dead girl in his arms and Because of that and he's also a veteran and he suffers from very horrible PTSD So just keep that in mind that that is a topic that's talked about in this book So if that causes triggers for you, maybe don't but if you're okay I would really recommend this because it just kind of talks about how Everyone thinks her father was the one that killed the girl But she knows that he didn't do it just because he found her doesn't mean he killed her and just because he has horrible PTSD doesn't mean he did something as horrible as kill her So she kind of goes off to figure out what happened to this girl from her school and Who killed her and why so it's just a good pure mystery I Enjoyed it for its mysteriousness and it's like representation, but One thing that did get me was the romance subplots and this book drove me nuts because it was very like Oh, I don't like him. Oh, I like him But now are we a thing I can't be a thing because he's the boyfriend of the dead girl Like it was just very dramatic when the rest of the book was trying to be like serious and actually Good, but this romance was not very I was not attached to it at all and I just didn't care for it But other than that, I think this was a really fun mystery to read and especially in spooky season And I mean it's the killing woods everyone knows not to go into the woods this time of year and yet everyone does it anyway, so That's just one way that I am going to live out Some Halloween spooky activities that I wish if you could doing this season, but I am not because quarantine and school So I have one more series to recommend Well, I have multiple series to recommend I have one more physical book here in front of me This series is a little bit older and I talk about it all the time But if you have not yet read it, I would highly recommend Sabriel by Garth Nix This is the first book in the unportion trilogy. The rest of the trilogy is right here This book it takes place in a fantasy world where there is magic and this girl She is the daughter of the abhorsen and the abhorsen is the guy that has a bunch of bells And he uses these bells to either help people move through death or Help creatures that come out of death and go back in and the idea is that there are nine gates in between being dead and Permanently going into death. There are nine gates in between that so it's like you pass through the first gate That means you're dead, but you still have the ability to go back into the living world and the Really you need the bells to help you with that And so the abhorsen is in charge of the bells and making sure that those who die can get through the nine gates But those who are supposed to stay dead Stay in the nine gates So her father goes missing and Sabriel takes it upon herself to figure out what happens to him and through that She learns the art of being the abhorsen aka a necromancer basic There's a lot of necromancy in here And like dead creatures not necessarily people but creatures coming back from the land of the dead I guess they don't really call it that but like from past the ninth gate um And so I Love this book my brother who's not a big reader Love this book my husband who is very picky about what books he reads loved this series. So if I Say it's the perfect series for Halloween because it has necromancy and the magic system is so interesting And it's also just super good. So it is a bit of an older book but if you haven't read it seriously pick it up because I Love I love the magic system and the necromancy and the nine gates because each gate is different and it's just so cool I could go on talking about it for such a long time But I shouldn't because I'm trying to keep this video like not a billion years long So the next series that I am going to suggest is one that I've heard some people really love myself included And one I've heard some people not like it all So that is the way we're children series by Shana McGuire and I Absolutely loved this series. I thought it fit the fall vibe Very well, and in the first book, which is the only book I've read, but I'm going to read more there's a murder and so That's where it kind of gets into Halloween spooky vibes as well as the fact that so really what the book is about Or the series is about is the idea that kids go through these doorways into magical world. Some worlds are Characterized as good some worlds are just kind of wacky some worlds are dark and kind of mysterious or even evil But you know the chat the children generally become very attached to this world And so sometimes they have a really hard time adjusting back to the real world the real world And so that is why they are sent to this school And it's at the school where a murder takes place shortly after a new girl comes back from her world and Has to go to this school. So everyone's trying to figure out who did it and why and it's you've got this like It's got this feeling of something is just consistently off Because I don't know if it's because of like the different worlds that are described like some are very whimsical The one that she came from is like super dark But there's just this constant feeling of something being off in the book and I love that it was amazing And that's what makes it that combined with the whole fact that there's a murder Really is what makes it great for spooky season and it's a series that I'm gonna continue to read as we progress through fall Even though it doesn't feel like fall very much right now considering it's been snowing for like the past week Like there is snow on the ground So it doesn't really feel like fall much anymore, but you know, it's gonna be fall until December. So I'm trying to stay in those fall vibes So it's a great series to read around spooky season But then throughout the rest of fall as well the next book that I'm recommending is one that I read Earlier this year and the sequel just came out decently recently. Yep decently recently And I've not yet read it, but I really want to and that is serpent and dove and then the sequel blood and honey So I've only read serpent and dove and I love it It's about this woman who is a witch and she is forced to get married to a witch hunter And the witch hunters are like very religious kind of belong to like the Catholic Church Esk, I don't know if it's specifically the Catholic Church or if it just reminds me a lot of Catholics um But basically he doesn't know that she's a witch But she knows that he's a witch hunter and they get married right at the beginning of the book and that was something I loved about it because it was a forced marriage and Well, like what happens after that like so many books that are based on romance is all about leading up to marriage or finding someone To love and here the author just kind of flipped it around and was like, okay, they're married This is what happens and so I really appreciated that but then also, you know witches I mean come on Halloween So I'm not gonna say too much more about the book just because the book was just flat out I loved it so much and I don't want to spoil too much of it other than just that generic premise So moving on to the last book that I have to recommend in this video It's one that I recently finished this fall season and it's called Bala Santiago and the River of Tears I loved this book because it is based off of Mexican mythology and Like there's a little blurb on it that was like Rick Ward and like I don't know if you like supported the book or helped in Like editing or publishing the book But it it's very much like the Rick Ward in series of how you know He wrote about Greek mythology Roman mythology Norse mythology Egyptian blah blah blah blah But he didn't write Mexican mythology, but then this author did and It was so beautiful. It's about this little girl named Paula who whose mother is super superstitious And believes in all of the myths and the fantasy and the traditions of Mexican culture She's always warning Bala like be careful. Don't go by the river or la Giorgona is going to get you La Giorgona is the woman who drowned her own children and then died of drowning and now every year pulls in children to drown into the river in her screaming sorrows But Bala is extremely Scientific she has a very beautiful smart scientific mind who refuses to believe in these myths that her mother tells her And there's even a little bit of a critique of how Hispanic and Latinx people are viewed in the eyes of the law because Bala's friend goes missing around the river and So Bala and her friend they try to go to the cops and be like hey our friend is missing and they are mistreated horribly just because of Their ethnicity and their heritage and it's really sad to see but then Paula designs But she's gonna take it to her own hands and she's gonna catch the guy who kidnapped her friend or she's gonna figure out what happened to her friend, but Obviously as I've been talked about Mexican mythology La Giorgona may or may not play a part in this book I'm not gonna say too much more because again, I don't want to ruin it, but it was just really nice to Read a book about a mythology that hasn't been Expressed as much in popular culture or at least here on booktube. So I really want people to read it because it was a wonderfully written book and I Think if people read it, they're just gonna enjoy it if you if you love mythology if you love like fantastical storytelling You should seriously read this book and it is like just creepy enough for Halloween, too That was the last book on my list Those are all my recommendations of books that I've read in the past year or even in this past season that are kind of spooky Halloween vibes without going into horror or thriller So yeah, if you guys have any recommendations of books You've read that you really enjoy that either you want me to read or you want other people to read Comment down below letting me know what those are. I'm always looking for more spooky recommendations Even though Halloween is so close. There's just so much I want to read and it's most likely I'm still gonna be in the Halloween spirit a couple days after Halloween. So There's there there's still plenty of time to read all these books If you like this video or you're gonna read any of the books from it, please Give it a thumbs up like the video share it to your friends who maybe you want them to start reading Or there's a spooky book on here that you want them to read Send them this video otherwise subscribe to the channel and I will continue to post Spooky videos here in spooky season, but then I'll also I'll go back to some regular videos I'm trying to post at least once or twice a week kind of at the end or beginning of weekends I'm sorry. That's not really a set schedule, but like school is just crazy right now So I'll figure it out. I promise But subscribe so whenever I do post you get the notification hit the bell so you can get all the notifications Whatever I do here on YouTube and I hope you guys have a spooky Halloween and happy reading