#katie alender

[pennyroks77]

things I learned from fnaf + bgdd:

purple is an evil color.

purple+yellow=not to be trusted.

do NOT kill a kid-- hey, don't even be there when they die-- because kids are petty and they do NOT CARE if it was an accident.

1987 was just a bad year.

the number 87 is just a bad number, actually.

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #bgdd #bad girls don't die #katie alender

[vivelareine]

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer is getting a series on Paramount Plus!

#marie antoinette #ya horror #katie alender #paramount plus

[bug2003]

Katie Alender my beloved please write another book if I don’t live through another traumatized strong willed teenage girl go through unimaginable peril to discover her strength soon I will Die

#the companion #bad girls don’t die #Katie alender #I’m so serious I love her #Alexis Warren is why I’m so annoying today

[tiredgatt0]

Rereading From Dead to Cursed by Katie Alender and I found barcodes on page 251

the barcode scanner at work says they are 288205

Might've just gotten the work computer cursed

#bad girls don't die #katie alender #books #ghosts #conspiracy theories #288205

[helpmeiamprocrastinating]

They could’ve called the killer the Hollywood Hunter, or the Hollywood Homicider, which, apparently, is a word, but no….. the author calls him (I’m assuming it’s a dude at this point, I’m only five chapters in) the Hollywood Killer.

But my alliteration!!!!!

#famous last words #katie alender

[the-witch-with-the-raven-tattoo]

"And we might always be hurting, we might always be damaged, but we were more than that too. We were the parts of us who had saved ourselves. Who'd had enough. Who'd chosen to live."

#the companion #katie alender #book quotations #book quotes #books #bookblr #just read #just finished

[writingfanficsfan]

Book 80 of 2022

The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was hand-picked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha. At first, helping with Agatha - and getting to know her handsome older brother - seems much better than the group home. But soon, the isolated, gothic house begins playing tricks on Margot’s mind, making her question everything she believes about the Suttons... and herself. Margot’s bad dreams may have stopped when she came to live with Agatha – but the real nightmare has just begun.

This is another YA Spooky book that Plant Based Bride recommanded and I loved this one. At first I expected some supernatural element (probably because Sawkill girls had that) but this book is more creepy because it’s something that can happen (and does) in reality. 

#books #book review #booklist #my book list #katie alender #spooky books

[xxfaded-by-themxx]

Katie Alender’s Trioligy 🖤 I just found my old  favorite Books as a teen! Highly recommend. 

#katie alender #books #spooky #as dead as it gets #bad girls don't die #from and to cursed #teenbooks

[toomanyfandomsstuff]

“This is the kind of dream you don’t wake up from, Henry” - Katie Alender (Famous Last Words)

#Katie alender #famous last words but it’s not the mcr song it’s a horror(?)ish novel #anyone read the companion #??

[revvethasmythh]

when the gothic horror book has a deranged family, the house is suffocating and claustrophobic, and everything is so so so so fucked up

i am sickos

#i'm reading the companion by katie alender btw #FUCKED UP. DELICIOUS. LOVE IT #the gothic horror is gothic horroring THANK GOD #too many things promise to be fucked up and then let you down. not this. i am getting the fucked up that i was promised 😌 #rosie reads

[catnippackets]

Hi Selena!!! I was wondering if you had any book recs/favorite books?

I got two for you that I read semi-recently (they're both horror)

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender is one that I read sometime last year and it SEVERELY FUCKS it's a supernatural horror about a girl who inherits a mansion and goes to move in w her family but after a few days something happens and she discovers that not only is she somehow magically trapped inside the house, but there's a ton of ghost women also trapped inside the house, and she has to figure out what's keeping everyone sealed in here and preventing the ghosts from passing on. I went in totally blind and didn't expect it to pack such a punch but I was crying by the end of it, it's very heavy on death and family themes which apparently I wasn't expecting lol but there's also a lot of funny bits in there and all the characters are super likeable! I would love to own my own copy one day it was such a good read I highly recommend it

the other one which I read this past April is Jurassic Park!! I figured with how much I love the movie it was a shame I hadn't read the book before and my god let me tell you. the movie may be sci-fi adventure but the book is straight up sci-fi horror and it's absolutely brutal, the tension is insane and the death scenes are so much more visceral than the movie does them it's amazing. I actually had to take a break when I got to Nedry's death scene bc it was so brutal. I also really loved how both the book and the movie had significant changes to the plot and characters but both of them were super well done and worked perfectly in their own ways! like I didn't finish the book and think "man the movie actually did this book dirty" or "that sucked, the movie improved it so much", both the movie and the book are amazing and it was fun to see exactly how the book was translated for it to work as a film. SO if you can handle graphic descriptions of wild animal attacks then definitely read this!!!!!!!!!! I started in on the sequel too but because I was reading it online and not with a physical copy like I did the first one I got distracted and I haven't picked it up since so I'm gonna try to hunt down a physical copy so I can read it that way (I just find it easier to read when I can actually hold the thing and not hafta sit at a computer)

#ask #Anonymous

[poison-uwu]

Hold on can you please tell me what books you read, because if you finished 4 books and we’re a week into 2024 they must have been some damn good books

Of course! I'm also just a fast reader by nature so that plays into the timing a bit. I've also been trying to catch up on series I haven't finished yet, hence the sporadic nature of the books.

But the four so far are

1) as dead as it gets by Katie Alender

2) only the good spy young by ally carter

3) heroes of Olympus: the blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

4) Lola in the mirror by Trent dalton

#anon ask

[roguelibrarian]

books I read in 2023

Threw together a list of books I read this year plus brief thoughts about them Just Because.

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne - I was so, so ready to like this book and then like one chapter in suddenly got hit with the reveal that the backstory to it is the racist trope of "big scary Native man kidnaps a pure, virginal white girl to be his wife." So....fuck that shit.

So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow - Heck yes. Excellent book. It's a retelling of Little Women set in the Roanoke Freedmen's Colony. The author leans into how aro-coded Jo is. Also Beth lives.

Renegades by Marissa Meyer - Yeah, I didn't finish this one. I got so bored.

Common Bonds: A Speculative Aromantic Anthology ed. by Claudie Arseneault, C.T. Callahan, B.R. Sanders, and RoAnna Sylver - I mean it's an anthology, so some of the stories just did not work for me, but I am ecstatic over the concept alone and most of it was amazing.

The Companion by Katie Alender - Creepy as shit in the best possible way. My one complaint is that after 200 pages without a hint of romance, suddenly a character showed up who was so obviously meant to be the main character's love interest and that part was exhausting. Otherwise excellent, amazing, chilling as hell, and you know I love me some abuse narratives.

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake - I wanted to like this one so bad and it's not that I didn't like it, but it was just kinda...mostly okay? I felt like I was supposed to be creeped out and scared and tbh I should have been because there's some pretty disturbing shit in this book but all just fell so flat.

Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca - Bad. Just bad. Oh my g-d this book was so bad and irritating and just...if you want to learn more about aspec people or think you might be aspec yourself, please read literally anything else. I won't go into detail because I wrote a whole post about it here, but just...bad.

Ace and Aro Journeys: A Guide to Embracing Your Aromantic or Asexual Identity by The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project - So, this was definitely better than Sounds Fake But Okay overall, but there is a thread of deep discomfort with the existence of sex-repulsed and romance-repulsed aspecs that keeps popping up throughout the book. It is pretty clear that at least one of the authors (and probably more than one since there were several and apparently no one raised a strong enough objection to get any of this shit scrapped or rewritten) really Does Not Like sex-repulsed and romance-repulsed people.

The Wicked Remain by Laura Pohl - Second part of a duology, and the first book was definitely better. I low-key suspect that this book might have just been Once Upon A Time fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off. That said, I am always here for queerplatonic relationship rep and stories where the Cinderella character ends up single.

Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce - Series of four books, but I'm putting all of them together here because a) my thoughts are kinda the same and b) this post is already too long. I'm not gonna say much because I have a whole post about this series in my drafts already so I'll just leave it with yeah my nostalgia for these books has worn off quite a bit.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - This was another reread and yeah it still holds up just as good as the first time I read it. Literally this is one of my favorite books.

The Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo - Another reread. Excellent. Love a sequel that's just as good as the first one. Also one of my favorite books.

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo - Yeah I was on a rereading spree this year. This one is also so damn good.

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo - Last Grishaverse book on the list, I promise. So good. Nina went completely off the rails in this one and I love every second of it. Really everyone went off the rails a little bit but Nina most of all.

The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan - I have a post about this one here so I won't say too much in this post but g-d I love how unapologetically Jewish this book is. No stopping to explain things to any goyim who might be reading. No coddling goyishe feelings while portraying antisemitism. This book is for Jews and that's beautiful.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - Yet another reread. Actually, genuinely accurate portrayal of how PTSD triggers work. First sign of healing not being a romantic relationship but being the main character telling a shitty friend to fuck off. Literally the only thing stopping me from wholeheartedly shouting "I love this book so much" is that there's a random use of the r-word because this book is from the 90s and back then it was basically illegal to publish fiction about teenagers without having your characters use that word.

We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia - So I've got mixed feelings about it but ultimately I'd say this book is a net positive. Definitely recommend it for nonautistic people and for autistic people whose only exposure to the autistic community is through spaces like tumblr. Just don't have this be the only book you read about autistic people, you know?

#book blogging #book club with rogue #''threw together'' is a phrase which hear means ''i've been working on this post for like a week''

[after-witch]

Since it's Halloween do you have favorite horror books? ( Craving books rn specifically ones that has a physical copy ! )

Sure sure!

These all have physical copies!

Demons/Possession

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Ghost Stories

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Dark Water by Suzuki Koji

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Uninvited by Cat Winters

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Vampires

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein 

Other Creepy Stuff 

IT by Stephen King

Goth by Otsuichi (note: Otsuichi's stories can be 'dead dove do not eat' level of grotesque to the point that I feel the need to make this note)

Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper

Fear Street series (especially the Cheerleader trilogy) by R.L Stine

Small Spaces series by Katherine Arden

#book recommendations #horror books

[bookclubforghosts]

hey. you.

whats ur favorite book ?

Depends on the vibe! I work in a library and got a degree in literature studies so it’s hard to pick just one.

I recently read Dragonfall by LR Lam and really enjoyed it, as well as The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. Those are two very very different books but both are great; Dragonfall is a very interesting magic/fantasy story and The Violin Conspiracy is about a mystery surrounding a Stradivarius violin as well as about racism in the classical music industry.

I also really really enjoyed Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams. I would happily reread those and I own a big collection of the full Hitchhiker’s series!

As far as current authors go, I enjoy VE Schwab’s style as well as TJ Klune’s.

And for a good guilty pleasure read, I like Katie Alender’s teen paranormal fiction books; she was fun to read in high school and I still find it fun now. In a similar vein, for a fav from childhood, I was obsessed with So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane and read that entire series multiple times. I was also a fan of the How To Train Your Dragon books.

Finally, for classics, I’m a fan of gothic literature, so Dracula is a fav, as is pretty much any Edgar Allan Poe tale and any good ghost story from or in the style of that time period.

Thanks for the ask!!

#that’s a really long answer but I mean it when I say it’s hard to pick a single fav #I love fantasy and gothic paranormal shit especially #L writes #asks #anon

[pennyroks77]

hey you! do you like ghost stories? do you know what makes ghost stories even better? when you thrift them!

it really adds to the spooky experience, and it's affordable!

I really like authors like Katie Alender and K.R Alexander! guess how I found out about their work? by thrifting ghost stories!

seriously! buy the scholastic middle school paperbacks. buy the works by obscure authors. secondhand books are the coolest thing and usually cost <$5.

bought and read a book you didn't like? good! read books that you don't like! get out of your comfort zone! "oh, what do I do with this book that I own but don't like" there's plenty of stuff you can do. give it to a friend. sell it. donate it. better yet, turn it into blackout poetry to enhance the spooky feel. (hint: don't use a sharpie because they bleed and don't last very long. use paint or a regular black marker instead.)

build up a big collection of ghost stories if you like them! they also look super cool on your shelf!

#this has been my ted talk #ghost stories #thrifting #blackout poetry