𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: Thriller/Horror
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: September 30, 2025

🔪 Multiple POV
📱 Social Media/Bloggers
📍 Set in Vermont

I didn't love this one. I found my mind wandering in the chapters that were written as blog posts, I think? There are a LOT of mentions of social media (ie. blogs, X/Twitter, Reddit, etc.) which is fine, but I know a lot of readers have mixed feelings about it. It's very slow and this genre is best when it's fast-paced and exciting.

DNF @ 35%, mainly for this passage:

"She mused to him that the Christian God was essentially a demon himself or itself, as she preferred- and that only a musty cobbled-together book claimed otherwise. If it existed, God was as likely to tremble the planchette on a Ouija board as any spirit."

Thank you so much for the digital review copy, St. Martin's Press and NetGalley.

⚠️ mild gore, demons and occult, grief, mild domestic abuse (not explicit), doxxing, drug overdose

Okay DNF@ 40%. I was very excited to start this book because two of my favorite authors had blurbs that made it sound phenomenal. I am so disappointed. The writing style is not for me at all. It felt almost pretentious? I was so bored and a premise that should be good just fell extremely flat for me. The characters felt so one dimensional and I feel like the mixed media feeling was done very poorly. Maybe that will be changed for the actual book.. hopefully. For instance- the Wikipedia article and plot part was so boring and way too long. Didn’t feel like a wiki page at all. Maybe this book just needed a better editor? Funny because she is an editor. Can she edit this book? Anyways, truly not a book for me.